I am also in the first grade of junior high school. This is what I wrote in the essay competition in the sixth grade. It won the second prize, but the title is Let Reading Accompany Me to Grow Up

Reading can enrich our literary heritage. , improve our humanistic qualities and let us have smarter and independent thoughts and personalities. I like reading. Reading enriches my life. My mother has been reading with me since I was a few months old. Those books are still placed on my desk, such as: "Raising a Good Child" series, "Oriental Dolls" monthly magazine, "Intellectual Development Games", Classic short stories, "Bedtime Stories" and more. Gradually, I went to kindergarten, and the books on my desk became more and more abundant. "Children's Pictorial", "Disciple Rules", "Learn to Draw with Me"... Each new book brought me into a broader knowledge of heaven and earth. In elementary school, as my literacy continued to increase, my reading also increased by leaps and bounds. I couldn't put it down the works of famous domestic and foreign writers. After every book I read, my mother would record the time I read it and the title of the book. Whenever I open my mother's notebook, I feel proud. I am proud that I have the opportunity to have a spiritual collision with the motherland and the world's literary masters. I am proud that I have a mother who let reading enter my life. I am proud of my knowledge. I am proud of the enrichment and improvement of my personality... Now, I still love reading. Whenever I see a good book, I can't put it down, and my mother will not hesitate to help me "take it as my own" immediately. So my desk gradually became "overwhelmed". My mother encouraged me and said: "You can't read books unless you borrow them." So, I often exchanged books with my classmates or borrowed them from the library. Because of the exchanges with my classmates, I have a deeper and more thorough understanding of the content of the book; I also have a wider choice of books, and because I borrowed them, I will read them more carefully when I encounter good sentences and paragraphs. I really benefited a lot from memorizing and recording. The more books I read, the wider my knowledge is, my understanding of words is enhanced, my expression ability is improved, and my reading and writing skills are naturally improved. Reading has enriched my life, cultivated my sentiment, enhanced my quality, and changed my attitude towards life.

Books have enriched my experience, helped me improve myself, and made my life better!