Sam Allred suffers from a rare and incurable kidney disease. One day, when his sister was playing a song repeatedly, Sam sang along. His sister thought it was funny so she recorded it and posted the video online. The video -- and Sam -- became a hit. Only 8 years old at the time, he couldn't have expected the response. "(The television show) The Doctors called and wanted me on their show so they paid for me to go to California," says Sam, now 13, "and we got to stay in a hotel where all the movie stars stayed." During that visit to California, Angie Allred, Sam's mother, had an idea about Sam writing a children's book. Together, she and Sam wrote Opening Hearts, which tells Sam's experience of living with a chronic illness. "I wrote the book to teach people to be kinder to people," Sam says. Moreover, Sam wanted to send pillows to sick children staying in hospitals around the country to make their stay more comfortable, an idea that came from a time when he was in the hospital. "A few kind boys came in with pillows and they gave me one and it meant a lot to me that someone cared about kids in the hospital," says Sam. Angie thought of starting a nonprofit organization to provide a way for people to contribute money to realize Sam's ideas. She named the nonprofit Kindness for Kids. Since then, Sam has taken pillows to children staying at Providence Hospital in Anchorage. Sam's father, Scott Allred, owns a small business that contracts shipping services with FedEx Ground. He asked the company for help. "FedEx Ground learned about Sam's pillow project," says Erin Truxal, manager of public relations for FedEx Ground. "We thought, 'What a perfect way for us to get involved.'" The company provided shipping services for Sam to ship about 5,000 pillows to hospitals. Sam wants to send more pillows to all of the children's hospitals in every state. His goal is simple: "Kids in the hospital as happy as they were before they got sick," he says.

Answer the following questions:
1. how old was sam when the video was made?
2. and how old is he now?
3. what disease does he have?
4. what is his mother's name?
5. what was her idea?
6. who recorded the video of Sam?
7. did she think it was sad?
8. what did she think of it?
9. was he surprised?
10. what state did they get invited to?
11. who wanted to start a non-profit?
12. what did she call it?
13. why did Sam say he wrote the book?
14. what is it about?
15. what is it named?
16. who did Scott's father ask for help?
17. does he sometimes work with them?
18. what did they help Sam ship?
19. to how many people?
20. what did he want kdis to be?

Numbered answers:
1. Eight
2. 13
3. kidney disease
4. Angie Allred
5. Sam should write a children's book
6. His sister
7. No
8. she thought it was funny
9. Yes
10. California
11. Angie
12. Kindness for Kids
13. He wrote the book to teach people to be kinder to people
14. Sam's experience of living with a chronic illness
15. Opening Hearts
16. FedEx
17. Yes
18. pillows
19. 5,000
20. Kids in the hospital as happy as they were before they got sick