Are you looking for ways to support the striving readers in your school? This selection of books and series from our premier publishing partners can help you unlock their potential. With a wide variety of hi-lo titles, large print books, graphic novels, and quick reads that cover diverse topics and reading levels, you are sure to find the right fit for students who need a little extra support.
Audience: Middle School
Large print is not just a bigger font size. It’s also proven to help with letter and word recognition, aid reading comprehension, and increase feelings of confidence and satisfaction when reading. Explore large print titles designed to help middle and high school students who struggle with reading and comprehension.
Audience: Lower Elementary
The In Bloom series offers curriculum-based chapter books that ease younger readers into reading. Each book uses decodable text, a repetition of sight words, and vowel sounds to raise recognition and confidence. Topics include family pets, road trips, popular sports, and more. Original illustrations help guide readers through the text.
Audience: Lower Elementary
With short, fast-paced chapters, art on every page, and fun activities at the end of each book, this silly and spooky highly illustrated series from award-winning author David Bowles is a perfect choice for striving readers. Each hilarious and scary story in the new 13th Street series is designed to set independent readers up for success.
Audience: Lower Elementary
Specially designed for shared reading between a beginning or struggling reader and an advanced reader, the Orca Two Read books help children of all abilities overcome language-based learning difficulties and achieve reading success. These partially illustrated workbooks combine stories and exercises focusing on phonics and fostering literacy.
Audience: Middle School
A perfectly eerie mix of science fiction, mystery, and drama, the stories in the White Lightning Mysteries series will keep readers thinking. Each storyline is unique, and each chapter book is written at an accessible reading level. Tweens will enjoy getting pulled into the mysteries and then puzzling over the book after they set it down.
Audience: Upper Elementary
This lively peek into the amazing world of microbes, replete with a kid-pleasing “ick” factor, is chock-full of facts, humor, and fun illustrations. With such extras as sidebars, limericks, and even a lesson on how to draw E. coli, this “eww”-worthy treasure trove for kids is an engrossing romp into the microbe drama unfolding where you might least expect it.
Audience: Upper Elementary
From beautiful mermaids and gentle unicorns to fire-breathing dragons and bloodthirsty vampires, The Genius Kid’s Guide to Mythical Creatures highlights 20 of these legendary beings. Readers will learn everything they need to know about their favorite myths and monsters, as well as plenty of fun trivia to impress their friends.
Audience: Upper Elementary and Middle School
These exciting hi-lo titles for striving and reluctant readers feature simple sentences, colorful photos, and engaging high-interest topics. Motivate and engage your readers with stories about major league sports, luxury cars, exotic animals, and more. Some titles include a page with reading and writing prompts to help with reading comprehension.
Audience: Upper Elementary
With spine-chilling tales that combine monsters and mysteries, Monsterious is a perfect series for striving middle-school readers who love creepy horror. Author Matt McMann explores age-appropriate themes, like having courage and being vulnerable with friends, all while providing laughs, action, and scary fun. Check out Monsterious today – if you dare!
Audience: Middle School
From New York Times best-selling author Eoin Colfer and the team behind the Artemis Fowl graphic novels and the best-selling, acclaimed graphic novel Illegal comes a compelling and timely story that follows two courageous children as they face the effects of climate change. Follow along as Sami and Yuki try to save the world around them before time runs out.
Audience: Middle School
Neither a borrower nor a lender be. Parting is such sweet sorrow. Something wicked this way comes. We’re all familiar with these sayings, but where did they come from? Introduce young readers to the treasures of William Shakespeare with Shakespeare Illustrated Classics. Each title tells the tale of a popular play and will help inspire further Shakespearean study!