For readers of every generation
Find a story that stays with you
Discover the books of CDJ Books, enter the worlds growing around them, and find meaningful ways to read, reflect, and continue the conversation.
Choose your pathway
There is more than one way into a story
Start with the books themselves or follow a pathway designed for the way you read, share, teach, or discuss them.
Readers
Discover the current books, their central themes, and the story worlds connected to them.
Browse the booksParents and families
Find thoughtful ways to choose, share, and discuss stories across generations.
Visit Parents & FamiliesEducators
Explore the books through themes, discussion, reflection, and future classroom-support materials.
Visit EducatorsBook clubs and groups
Continue the conversation with discussion pathways designed for shared reading.
Explore discussion guidesBegin with a book
Three distinctive entrances into the work of CDJ Books
Each title offers its own characters, setting, emotional journey, and pathway into a larger conversation.
A story for younger readers and families
Eugene The Wayward Frog
Follow a character whose journey opens conversations about choices, independence, discovery, and finding one’s way.
A story of identity, place, and direction
Black Boy From the Barrio
Enter a story shaped by environment, experience, belonging, personal identity, and the possibility of choosing a different direction.
A story of family, presence, and connection
A Father and Son’s Love Story
Explore the relationship between a father and son through themes of love, memory, presence, connection, and what remains meaningful across time.
Beyond the book
A story does not have to end on the final page
CDJ Books treats each title as the beginning of a larger story world. These spaces bring together the ideas, characters, themes, settings, questions, and reader pathways surrounding each book.
Explore all story worldsStory World 01
Eugene The Wayward Frog
Explore Eugene’s worldStory World 02
Black Boy From the Barrio
Explore the worldStory World 03
A Father and Son’s Love Story
Explore the worldRead together
Stories become richer when people talk about them
A shared story can open conversations between children and adults, classmates and educators, friends, families, book clubs, and community groups.
CDJ Books is building dedicated pathways that help readers consider a story’s characters, decisions, relationships, setting, and larger themes without reducing the book to a lesson or a list of answers.
Reader resources
Useful pathways without empty promises
Reader resources will appear only when they are complete, accurate, and ready to use.
Discussion guides
Structured questions and conversation pathways for readers, families, educators, and book groups.
Visit the Discussion Guides hubParents and families
Guidance for selecting books, reading together, and continuing age-appropriate conversations.
Explore the family pathwayEducators
A dedicated starting point for classroom, library, and learning conversations connected to the books.
Explore the educator pathwayFrom the Journal
Continue reading beyond the books
The CDJ Books Journal will explore storytelling, reading, family, publishing, creative process, and the ideas surrounding the books and their story worlds.
Visit the JournalYour next pathway
Begin with the story that speaks to you
Browse the current books or step directly into one of the worlds developing around them.