Menifee, California doesn’t have a bookshop. It’s a city of 100,000 people.

No shelves to wander. No one to ask. No local section for kids, young adults, or families looking for something worth reading.

So we’re building one.

We’re the Sugimoto family, and we’ve lived in Menifee long enough to feel that gap every time our kids needed a book recommendation and the closest answer was a 20-minute drive or an Amazon search.

The Menifee Bookshop is our hand-curated storefront on Bookshop.org: reading lists for adults, young adults, and kids, organized by season and updated throughout the year. Every purchase supports independent bookstores nationwide.