Brandy Ray is a former preschool teacher at Spark! Discovery Preschool and a current 4th-grade teacher at Black Rock Elementary in the St. Vrain Valley School District. She became a book lover in 1st grade when her teacher encouraged her to check out her first chapter book. From those beginning pages of Mickey Mouse's The Prince and the Pauper until now, reading has been a welcome addiction that keeps her up morning, noon and night. Over the summer she is reading The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White and The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies.