Sparking & Fueling
Love for Reading
Remember the first time you felt so engrossed in a book that you couldn’t put it down? Propelled by curiosity, excitement, intrigue, you forged new trails with your adventuring companions, made forever friends, learned empathy and life skills, and emerged forever changed from your experiences in your protagonist’s shoes. For those who relate, I aim to help you find your next all-consuming read. For those who haven’t yet experienced the joys of devouring books . . .
challenge accepted.
The Gateway to
Learning . . .
Abhi Sharma from India, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Discover Your Next Adventure
Whether your interests are scholarly, sporty, geeky, nerdy, romantic, ysterious, thrilling, emotional, whimsical, or inspiring, you can find what you’re looking for…. Along the way, I hope you meet new friends, venture outside your comfort zone, and find delight in unexpected places!
Picture Books
Explore innovative experiences without words, traditional childhood tales, and more sophisticated art-centric books for adults.
Early Chapter Books
Win the world cup, travel through history, or rid the land of monsters in these captivating stories ideal for read-alouds or for newly independent readers.
Graphic Novels
Sail with a pirate crew, reinvent modern tools with stone age equipment, or follow a beloved sports team in these books for anime lovers and comic book fans.
Middle Grade Books
Solve mysteries, survive in the wild, stir up school drama, fight crime, and battle the gods in chapter books targeted at independent readers through 8th grade.
High School Books
Navigate complex relationships, overcome economic struggles, rebel against discrimination and unfair government, find love, and grieve loss in these YA books.
Advanced Books
Mine classic literature and scholarly, academic works for heroic archetypes and wisdom about leadership, philosophy, science, economics, and humanity.
Search for Books
Find your next great read here in a trove of literature specifically curated
to lure diverse adventurers into embarking on their own personalized
journeys of discovery.
By Author or Illustrator
- Discover a new-to-you Creator.
- Explore works by a favorite Writer or Artist.
- Read more about a featured Author or Illustrator.
Saint Ambrose by Rutilio Manetti, writing hand detail. Uploaded by Pietro Antonio Rotari, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
By Genre
- Embark on your next literary adventure in imagined worlds or closer to home.
- Empathize with characters’ sufferings and triumphs, frustrations and growth.
- Find kindred spirits, quirky friends, and villains you love to hate, who may yet be redeemed.
“I have lived a thousand lives.
I have loved a thousand loves.
I’ve wandered distant worlds
and seen the end of time
because I read.”
George R. R. Martin
From a speech delivered at Texas A&M University, 2013
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