She called her effort For Love and Buttercup, after a favorite flower, and launched it with a request for book donations on neighborhood app Nextdoor. Her initial goal was to collect books for children undergoing cancer treatment, but she’s expanded it to all patients under 18. Thinking of these little children going through the same thing as my dad was unimaginable.” “I was drowning in sadness when my dad was diagnosed. I can’t save lives, but I can hopefully make them a tiny bit brighter,” says the teen, who lives with her parents in Gaithersburg, Maryland. “I thought to myself, I’m only a teenager. She decided she’d donate the books to children who were also facing health scares. So when she accidentally saw a text message on her father’s phone notifying relatives he had stage 4 thyroid cancer, she masked her fears with the one thing she’s always found comfort in.īut this time, she went a little further.Īt the age of 17, Emily launched a neighborhood book drive in honor of her dad, Mike Bhatnagar. When she’s struggling with anxiety and depression, she turns to books. Emily Bhatnagar has always found solace in reading.
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