An Invisible Thread

The following was a book report Nicholas wrote in October 2017 after just starting his 7th grade year at his new public school in Springfield, New Jersey.

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By Nicholas Ware

It all started in 1986, when Laura Schroff, a successful advertising executive, made her way across 56th street to Broadway on the West side of Manhattan. A young boy, named Maurice Mazyck, eleven years old and dressed in scruffy clothes, asked for some money to buy food, but she just walked past him. Then she stopped, turned around and went back to the boy, and took him out for lunch in the city. The boy lived in a welfare hotel with his mother and other relatives, two blocks from Laura’s house.

As they talked over lunch, Laura learned a lot about the boy’s life. She told him to call her if he was ever hungry, but time passed and he never did. Later, Laura went back to the place they met and there he was, so she took him out for dinner and that became a tradition. Every Monday Laura and Maurice would have dinner together, sometimes at her house, sometimes at a restaurant.

Maurice had never left the city until Laura took him to see her sister who lived in Long Island. Laura thought that Maurice would be impressed by the huge lawn, or even bigger backyard, the pool, or the TV. But what really impressed him was the big dining room table, where they all sat down and ate together. He promised himself that when he grew up he would have a huge dining room table at his house.

Many years passed and Laura’s friends convinced her to publish a book about what happened. The book is called “An Invisible Thread” and It got into the New York Times Bestsellers' list. Maurice now is a construction worker and has a family of his own. He is the first person in his family to ever get a paycheck and his house may not have a huge backyard or a big couch but it does have a huge dining room table.