{"id":336493,"date":"2026-07-11T01:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T01:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/336493\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T01:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T01:56:08","slug":"florida-mother-and-daughter-start-mobile-bookstore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/336493\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida mother and daughter start mobile bookstore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Coral mother and daughter start new chapter with mobile bookstore<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gulfcoastnewsnow.com\/news-team\/45373994-ab94-48e7-b2b4-e44849fd8e4a\" aria-label=\"Britt Leoni profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/45373994-ab94-48e7-b2b4-e44849fd8e4a_1735249415.jpg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Britt Leoni\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Melissa McClellan and her daughter, Madi, share more than just DNA.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">&#8220;She doesn&#8217;t think she&#8217;s my favorite, but she is,&#8221; said Melissa McClellan.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">They share a friendship, and as their matching shirts that read &#8220;she&#8217;s my favorite coworker&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;m literally her only coworker&#8221; suggest, they share an office, too.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Last summer, Melissa saw a video of a mobile bookstore and knew it was something she wanted to create with her daughter.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">&#8220;I immediately texted her a picture or sent her that TikTok and said, we should do this,&#8221; Melissa said. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">Madi gave her mom a yes shortly after.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">&#8220;Oh, it was like, 30 seconds,&#8221; Madi said. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">Last July, the family went building and book gathering.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">&#8220;I had a home library at my old house, and then I moved into a studio apartment, so I could not take all 300 books,&#8221; Madi said. &#8220;So, we started with that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"9\">In November, &#8220;M&amp;M&#8217;s Wheely Good Reads&#8221; opened to the public. It&#8217;s gained more traction than the mother-daughter duo expected.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"10\">&#8220;People will just come in here and be like, can I live here?&#8221; Madi said. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"11\">For these two, it&#8217;s not about how many books they sell. It&#8217;s about starting a new chapter that brings them even closer together.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"12\">&#8220;I love spending time with her. As we get older, she&#8217;s so busy with her work, and she has a boyfriend, so I try to book as many events as possible to force her to spend time with me,&#8221; Melissa said. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"13\">You can learn more about &#8220;M&amp;M&#8217;s Wheely Good Reads&#8221; on Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php\/?id=61581414064759\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a> and on Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wheelygoodreads\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"14\">DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/qrco.de\/gcnapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf Coast News app<\/a>\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylocal.com\/wbbh-ft-myers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Very Local Gulf Coast app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cape Coral mother and daughter start new chapter with mobile bookstore CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014 Melissa McClellan and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,123480,123479,121031,88176],"class_list":["post-336493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-streams","tag-us-privacy-notice-term","tag-use-nextfre","tag-wbbh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}