Fifth grader Kautilya Jammalamadaka has written an 88-page adventure story. Published by Amazon in June 2014, The Warriors of Wridor: The Doomed Quest, is now available online and receiving rave reader reviews.

No one could have predicted this success when Kautilya began first grade as a struggling reader and writer. Kautilya was selected for first-round individual lessons with Reading Recovery teacher, Kank Schwarz, in Parkway School District, Missouri. Schwarz remembers the qualities that led Kautilya to his recent success — love of writing, and a wild imagination!

Kautilya says ideas come randomly, often when he’s bored. He says he often updates stories as he writes to incorporate a new character or event he has imagined. He has ideas for other books, but wants to finish this series first.