It's no fun feeling disoriented in school, Yuridia recalls, so she was thrilled to get extra help from a free tutor at the Port Richmond Library to understand and finish her homework. Her after-school Enrichment Zones classes at her nearby library branch even helped her to skip a possible summer school requirement before starting school in the fall. The icing on the cake is that when Yuridia finishes her work, she gets to play math and reading games on the computer.

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