**This book is presented in both standard and Summerbell Program curved text!**
For fifty years, the world told Hillary Summerbell her brilliant mind was broken.
Pulled from classrooms, marked in red, and quietly shuffled toward failure, Hillary grew up with undiagnosed dyslexia - retreating into imagination and design to survive a system that had no language for the way she saw the world.
Then she rewrote her story.
From summa cum laude graduate to sought-after interior designer, Hillary's life became one of relentless reinvention. But her most electrifying chapter arrived in 2019, when a single moment of clarity led her to a breakthrough: curving text on a page allowed her to read - truly read - for the first time. Now teachers who have used the Summerbell Positional Reading Arc describe it as "watching struggling students put on glasses."
Part memoir, part manifesto, Beautifully Unread is essential reading for the 1 in 5 Americans with dyslexia - and for anyone who has ever been told they weren't enough.
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"When I first started working with Hillary, I thought her approach was exciting and new. I couldn't wait to share it with students because I knew it was really going to work for them." - Amy Aden Dunn
"Summerbell applies a stunning aesthetic to text which allows readers to visualize and comprehend the written word in a completely different manner. This exciting approach supports everything from Word decoding to fluency and comprehension." - Audrey Dolginoff
"The Summerbell method is extremely approachable and is instantly effective for all learning styles. Many of my students have a difficult time comprehending material because they use 100% of their working memory on decoding words. This program makes it much easier to decide and builds fluency, which allows them to comprehend" - Julia Carpenter
"As soon as I saw Summerbell, I knew it would be effective in transforming text for my students and improving their reading. With the ease-of-use through the chrome extension, it is a program. I am excited to use with my students of all ages, from kindergarten to 12th grade." - Michelle Michlik
Hillary Summerbell is the inventor, founder, and CEO of Summerbell, a pioneering literacy innovation reshaping how the world supports readers with dyslexia. As a dyslexic herself, Hillary grew up struggling with reading and numbers, not realizing her brain simply processed information differently. Years later, she made a breakthrough discovery: when she arranged text in a gentle arc, she could read and comprehend with ease for the first time. That insight led her to develop The Summerbell Reading Method, a patented, science-backed approach that transforms linear text into a curved, visually intuitive format proven to improve fluency, comprehension, and confidence. Combining her background in design with an engineer's problem-solving mindset, Hillary translated her personal revelation into a powerful educational technology. Today, she leads Summerbell not only as an inventor and entrepreneur but as a passionate advocate for reading equity and neurodiversity. Her work is rooted in the belief that dyslexia is not a deficit, but a different kind of creative brain, and that accessibility should never depend on privilege. Under her leadership, Summerbell has evolved into a category-defining tool that empowers students, families, and educators around the world to read smarter, not harder.
