The Chargers' first Bookworm went to Bell Gardens.

Bolts Book Club is the Chargers Impact Fund's literacy program. Since 2020 it has put more than 25,000 free books in the hands of Southern California students, more than 7,000 of them in 2025 alone. The Chargers have partnered with Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Los Angeles for more than seven years, from a revitalized field and teen center at Watts/Willowbrook to player read-alouds at the clubs.

In summer 2026 the Impact Fund ran a Bolts Book Club Summer Reading Challenge across the clubs. The prize for the clubhouse that read the most books was not another box of books. It was a machine that gives books away every day.

An Inchy's Bookworm Vending Machine turns a one-day giveaway into a year-round reward. Club members earn golden tokens for the things staff want to see more of, walk up, drop the token in, and pick the book they take home and keep.

On Monday, September 28, 2026 the Chargers unveiled the machine at the Bell Gardens Boys & Girls Club. Chargers Legend Larry English joined the celebration, which also recognized the clubhouse for winning the Summer Reading Challenge with a pizza party and a special reading. The team posted it simply: their very first book vending machine, going to the clubhouse that read the most books that summer.

The photos tell the rest. A red carpet, gold stanchions and velvet rope in front of the machine, a Bolts Book Club banner, a wall of powder blue balloons and a room full of kids waiting for the first token.

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