Sometimes great initiatives in education start with just a glimmer of an idea and a belief that building a foundation under that idea can effect change. That glimmer of an idea came to Bandera Independent School District (BISD) from a middle school English teacher who attended an International Reading Association Conference and heard about teachers who, in the summer, brought tubs of books to students from low-income families. A group including district librarians, teachers, and campus administrators applied for a grant to pilot a summer bookmobile. After almost a full year of planning, BISD's Bulldog Mobile was born in the summer of 2014. The mobile literacy center was intended to provide free literacy materials to encourage summer reading and to decrease a slide in reading skills over the summer. This "summer slide" often results in widening the achievement gap that manifests when disadvantaged students lose academic ground over successive summers. Data from the end-of-year tests at BISD was compared to data from the beginning-of-year tests to determine if access to the Bulldog Mobile made any impact on preventing students from losing ground or helping them gain ground over the summer months. Findings show that nearly 67 percent of the children who visited the Bulldog Mobile at least once either maintained their reading skills or gained reading skills.