From the other side of the bookstore cash register, one reality is crystal clear: purchasing a book is never the conclusion of the story. For the actual reader, it is merely the opening threshold. A book is lifted from a shelf, paid for, and registered as a neat numeric tick on a publishing sales ledger. […]

Nobody needs to announce themselves or explicitly define what kind of reader they are. Spend just a few sessions together in the Sand Fox Award reading circles, and a young person’s reading habits disclose themselves naturally: through the book recommendations they offer, the volumes they quietly set aside without finishing, and the precise moments where […]