Founded by Kylie Chen
A place to share my favorite reads, honest reviews, and everything I love about books.
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I love reading because it transports me into a different universe. I also love my dog, food, and traveling—and I always bring books on trips. Reading somewhere new can even get me out of a reading slump.
My favorite is Fake Skating by Lynn Painter. I also love Jacks and Evangeline, Jude, Pip and Ravi, and so many more characters.
KC Books & Beyond was created to bring young readers together through a shared love of books. We want to build a welcoming community where readers can discover new stories, share their opinions, make friends, and express their creativity through fun discussions, interactive activities, and reading challenges.
We hope to encourage confidence, imagination, meaningful connections, and a lifelong love of reading. It's a place where your thoughts about a book actually matter—even when everyone has a different opinion.
KC Books and Beyond is my first youth-led pilot project with KC Foundation for Youth. I'm turning my love of reading into a book club that brings young readers together to share recommendations, discuss characters and stories, and build friendships.
I'm learning how to take an idea and make it real: plan our first book club event, create fun activities, invite readers, and organize a welcoming experience. My first challenge is a seven-day startup project with a parent-approved budget of up to $100.
This pilot project gives me a chance to practice leadership, creativity, event planning, budgeting, teamwork, and communication. I want to hear what other readers think and use their feedback to make each gathering better.
Each series is represented by its first book, with my thoughts on the sequels included in the review. Covers are all the same size and fill their frames.
Some of my favorite characters and fictional friendships, romances, and rivalries.
Evangeline Fox, Jacks of the Hollow, Jude Duarte, Cardan Greenbriar, Scarlett Dragna, Donatella Dragna, Julian Santos, Dante Santos, Oak Greenbriar, Wren, Alizeh, Cyrus, and Kamran.
Cassie Hobbes, Dean Redding, Michael Townsend, Lia Zhang, Sloane Tavish, Pippa Fitz-Amobi, Ravi Singh, Red Kenny, Arthur Gotti, Grayson Hawthorne, Xander Hawthorne, Jameson Hawthorne, Nash Hawthorne, Thea Calligaris, and Rebecca Laughlin.
Dani Collins and Alec Barczewski, Liz Buxbaum and Wes Bennett, Charlie Sampson and Bailey Mitchell, Nick Stark and Emilie Hornby, Damion Rutledge and Julia Lowell.
Juliette Ferrars, Aaron Warner, Kenji Kishimoto, Nazeera Ibrahim, James Anderson, and Rosabelle Wolff.
I'd love to host monthly discussions, themed reading challenges, book swaps, and creative activities where readers can talk about the stories and characters they love.
In the future, I hope to organize workshops, connect with local libraries, cafés, and bookstores, and explore community literacy projects. Through KC Foundation for Youth, I want to learn how to lead, plan, and create these experiences with other young readers.
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