I often worried that my kids wouldn’t ever truly enjoy reading.  Video games, cell phones, overscheduled extracurricular activities, reality television, and social media intensely compete with books for their generation.  Isn’t it great when your child or student begins to read?  What’s even more exciting to me, however, is when my kids get hooked on reading…when they carry books around, they read on every short jaunt in the car, or I find them endlessly curled up on the couch, consumed by a new series.   Words come alive and paint a story in their minds, and they start sharing the stories.  For my family, it was always a book series that first grabbed their attention.  Strangely, this always seemed to happen in fifth grade. This school year, my Olivia became hooked on reading.  J.K. Rowling is to blame, and I couldn’t be more grateful.  Numerous series and fabulous authors exist.  Too many to name. But that moment is great, when you know your child has opened their mind to the world of words, which will forever educate, inform, and often magically entertain.