Here is the sentence:
Wendy red each Cliff's Notes title on the
rack, hoping to spot Moby-Dick. She finally
found a booklet stuffed among the guides
to Hamlet and bought it without
regret, for she couldn't stomach another minute of the exhausting novel.
The first verb, red, is the problem. As you know, the sentence requires the simple past. Read [pronounced the same as red] is the correctly spelled form.
| Verb | Simple Present | Simple Past | Past Participle |
| read | read(s) | read | read |