Volunteer job at library helps woman find independence

EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — Jenny Diggins is a book walker.

She volunteers in Morgan's Tales Used Book Store at the Stanwood-Camano Community Resource Center. The 23-year-old picks up donated books from a bin at the front counter and carries them across the room to the back office, where she sets them on a desk to be sorted and shelved later. She carries the books one at a time and pauses to rest before going back for another.

It might sound like an easy task. But for Jenny, who didn't take her first steps until she was 12 years old and wouldn't grip something for more than a moment up until last year, every trek across the small store is an accomplishment.

Jenny, diagnosed with cerebral palsy, is severely disabled.