MG’s research aims to understand more about children’s story world absorption: the feeling of being immersed, or “hooked,” in a book. MG uses a mixed-methods approach to examine the cognitive and social-emotional benefits of absorptive reading, the types of texts that elicit absorption in children, and how absorption is correlated with reading motivation, engagement, and achievement. MG is interested in how story world absorption can support children’s reading comprehension development and cultivate a love of reading, in and beyond the classroom.