Reading empowers young people to find themselves and to create success for themselves. How do we build readers for life? We'll explore the dynamics that make a book work for the reader. It's the magic formula of looking at the reader and looking at the book - what do they have in common? Where is the intersection between how the book processes the world and how the reader processes the world? Author Jason Reynolds says he can tell in two paragraphs if a book has the right “beat” for him. How can we find that magical connection for each reader?
