Lexington, SC 03/24/2025 - Junior Girl Scout Troop 2422 created their “Worry Eater Book Nook” to earn the Girl Scout Bronze Award — the highest award a Girl Scout Junior can earn. Girl Scouts who receive this award demonstrate achievements in leadership development, project planning and taking action to make a positive, sustainable impact in the community.
By earning the Girl Scout Bronze Award, these eight fifth graders have become community leaders. Their accomplishments reflect leadership and citizenship skills that set them apart.
“I am so proud of these girls,” said Dee Pukl, leader of Troop 2422. “They wanted to help kids who have anxiety and kids who don’t have access to books, and they achieved their goal with teamwork, creativity and dedication.”
The “Worry Eater Book Nook” is a Little Free Library® filled with gently used childrens’ books and anxiety bags, which include a girl-designed anxiety workbook, inspirational stickers, colored pencils, and a fidget bracelet. The girls worked with a licensed professional counselor to ensure the activities in their workbook were appropriate, and they shared both print and digital versions of the workbook with the counselor and with their school counselors to make a lasting impact. They converted a former newspaper box to hold the library, and they organized a book drive to stock it. The library is installed at the playground at the Gibson Road Soccer Complex in Lexington.
“We thought helping kids with anxiety was important because lots of people experience anxiety, including some of our troop members, and it can change the way they act. Helping others is a good thing to do, and it feels good when you do it,” said the girls of Troop 2422.
PHOTO CAPTION: Front row from left: Girl Scouts Emsleigh Robles, Anna Grace Pukl, Lila Crowe, Addison Prather, Ally Dickson. Back row from left: Troop Leader Dee Pukl, Girl Scout Naomi Finnegan, Troop Leader Pam Altman, Girl Scout London Allen.
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