The author indicates that international reactions
to Americanized spellings of words can reflect

ma”am had a granddaughter who lived a couple blocks away from her school who later on then met friends

where are the options? i can try to if you add them : )

  this riddles' answer is library.

  the "leaves" are a reference to the books' pages that the library contains; the branches are a network of libraries that connect multiple libraries' collections, resources, and items in a system of a common database, integrating them; the branches' organization are a useful management tool for coordinating the multiple collections many libraries have.