Teen book club founder created a ‘brotherhood’ with African-American boys through reading, according to Kelly McCarthy from ABC News… Support our news coverage by subscribing to our Kindle Nation Daily Digest. Joining is free right now!

Sidney Keys III told “Good Morning America” that his idea to create Books N Bros was born from his own setbacks and struggles.

“I used to have a really bad stutter in elementary school and I would get teased for it,” he said. “Reading was kind of my escape from my stutter because in my head I was able to visualize things — and play out all the events clearly.”

He said he wanted to start up Books N Bros “so that I could talk to other people, and especially boys, about books that I love to read because it’s like a brotherhood.”

The reading club that he started at just 10 years old, with the help of his mom Winnie Caldwell, now has over 250 “bros” ages 7 to 13 from all over the U.S. and Canada.

“I’m extremely proud. He’s grown into such a leader over the last few years,” Caldwell said. “I remember the first time we had a meetup of seven boys and we grew from seven boys to 30 boys and he was so scared to talk in front of 30 people and since then he’s spoken to a group of over 3,000 people, so he continues to amaze me.”

The book club chooses works that celebrate black culture and African-American literature as well as entrepreneurship, financial literacy and more.

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