CHAPTER BOOKS, LEVEL READERS AND SERIES

What if the hardest part of your first day of school… was your name?

Elianna is excited to meet her new classmates, but something doesn’t sound quite right. As her teacher and friends say her name, Elianna notices the difference between what they say and how her name is meant to sound.

Through a day…

Mary Hoffman (A) ad Caroline Binch (ILT)

List Price: $6.99 (Paperback – Center Stage / Circus – 2001)

School’s out, and that means it’s time for fun! Grace and her friends are always ready for a little adventure, and Grace’s backyard is the perfect place to set up headquarters. Suddenly the lawn is…

Dorothy Hoobler (A), Thomas Hoobler (A) and Jerry Hoare (ILT)

List Price: $7.99 (Paperback – Great Wonder of the World – 2015)

The Great Pyramids of Egypt–all kids over the age of five recognize them instantly. These massive tombs were built thousands of years ago, and still no one knows exactly how the…

Discover how a young girl who loved to read and write became a voting rights activist, a candidate for governor of Georgia, and an author.

Presenting Who HQ Now: an exciting addition to the #1 New York Times Best-Selling Who Was? series!

Stacey Abrams began her career in politics at the age of seventeen…

Yona Zeldis McDonough (A) and Jim Eldridge (ILT)

List Price: $5.99 (Paperback – Biography / Evangelist / Feminist – 2015)

Almost 100 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat, Sojourner Truth was mistreated by a streetcar conductor. She took him to court–and won! Before she was Sojourner Truth, she…

Allison Lassieur (A)

List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Biography / Science – Astronaut – 2016 )

While watching Star Trek on television as a child, Mae Jemison was certain she would one day visit space.  Then she became the first black female NASA astronaut. Find out how Jemison’s passion for science…

Wade Husdon (A) and Ron Garnett ILT) 

List Price $3.99 (Paperback – Explorers – 1995)

With inspiring and educational stories, Scholastic’s Hello Reader series
caters to the spectrum of reading abilities among beginning readers. My
First Hello Readers use basic words to reinforce phonics and sight 
vocabulary. The books at this level offer…

Sharon M. Draper (A) and Jesse Joshua Watson (ILT)

List Price: $6.99 (Paperback – Adventure / Buried Bones Mystery – 2011)

With their neighborhood basketball court destroyed by vandalism, Ziggy, Rashawn, Jerome, and Rico don’t know how they’re going to spend summer vacation. Then Ziggy has a brilliant idea (Ziggy…

Alyssa Satin Capucilli (A) and Jill Watcher (Photos)

List Price: $4.99 (Paperback – First Yoga Book – 2017)

Young readers can learn all about what happens at yoga class in this Pre-level 1 Ready-to-Read with sweet text and photographs of yogis-in-training!

It’s the first day of yoga class in this early reader by Biscuit creator Alyssa Satin…

Jenny Lombard (A)

List Price $7.99 (Paperback – Teen Fiction / Friendship / Ethnic Background – 2006)

Drita and her family come to New York as refugees from war-torn Kosovo. Even though she barely speaks English, Drita can’t wait to start school and make a new…

Kelly Starling Lyons (A)  and Vanessa Newton-Brantley (ILT)  and Nneka Meyers (ILT)

List Price: $6.99 (Paperback – Nature Lover  – 2022)

Kathleen Krull (A) and Tim Tomkinson (ILT)

List Price: $5.57 (Paperback – History / Event / Civil Rights March – 2013)

On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 people gathered in Washington, DC, to demand equal rights for all races. It was there that Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a…

Karen English (A) and Laura Freeman (ILT)

List Price: $6.99 (Paperback – Friendship Test – 2007)

Meet Nikki and Deja, who live next door to each other and are best friends. They do everything together including watch Saturday morning cartoons, play jacks, jump double Dutch at recess, and help each other with their…

Yona Zeldis McDonough (A), Lauren Mortimer (ILT) and James Bennet (ILT)

List Price: $5.99 (Paperback – Underground Railroad / Escape 2013)

No one knows where the term Underground Railroad came from–there were no trains or tracks, only “conductors” who helped escaping slaves to freedom. Including real stories about “passengers” on the “Railroad,” this…

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Janet Pascal (A), Tim Foley (ILT) and Fred Harper (ILT)

List Price: $7.99 (Paperback – The Panama Canal – 2014)

Before 1914, traveling from the East Coast to the West Coast meant going by land across the entire United States. To go by sea involved a long journey around South America and north…

Barbara Kramer (A) and Who HQ and Dede Putra (ILT) 

List Price: $5.99 (Paperback –  Biography  – Entertainer /  Movie Mogul Extraordinaire – 2019) 

The story of how a young Southern girl who was raised on a pig farm became one of the most influential and inspiring people in the world.

We all know Oprah…

Sharon M. Draper (A) and Jesse Joshua Watson (ILT)

List Price: $6.99 (Paperback – Adventure / Animal Show – 2011)

Ziggy, Rashawn, Jerome, and Rico are excited about watching the heavy machinery at the construction site for a new apartment complex — until a doe is killed by a dump truck,…

Jim Gigliotti (A) and Who HQ (A) and Stephen Marchesi (ILT) 

List Price: $6.50 (Paperback – Biography / Singer – 2018)

Discover more about Stevie Wonder, the music prodigy whose awards include 25 Grammy Awards and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Stevie Wonder is one of the most successful singer-songwriter-musicians of our time.…

The New York Times bestselling team behind Parker Looks Up returns with this Level 1 Ready-to-Read about trying to make a good day out of a bad one.

Parker is not having a good day.  All she wants is some time alone to read her book, but her brother and sister will not stop following…

Kelly Starling Lyons (A) and Nneka Meyers (ILT) 

List Price: $6.99 (Paperback – Dancing Queen – 2019)

Jada Jones is back for the fourth book of this popular, celebrated series perfect for STEM fans!
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Robin Koontz (A), John Hinderliter (ILT) and Kevin McVeigh (ILT)

List Price: $6.69 (Paperback – History / Natural Disaster / Hurricane Katrina – 2015)

On August 25th, 2005, one of the deadliest and most destructive hurricanes in history hit the Gulf of Mexico. High winds and rain pummeled coastal communities, including the City…

The start of a thrilling, highly illustrated series about a boy who finds a portal to a legendary world in his local barbershop . . . and learns he’s the hero they’ve been waiting for. For younger fans of Black Panther and Last Gate of the Emperor!

Jarell…

Yona Zeblis McDonough (A) and John OBrien (ILT) and Nancy Harrison (ILT)

List Price: $6.99 (Paperback – Biography / Musician / Trumpet – 2004)

If not for a stint in reform school, young Louis Armstrong might never have become a…

Sharon Gayle (A) and Felicia Marshall (ILT) 

List Price $1.89 (Paperback – Biography / Leader / Slave Era – 2003)

Harriet Tubman was born a slave. But she always knew that someday she would be free. After realizing her dream Harriet decided she had to help others find freedom too. So she became…

Karen English (A) and Laura Freeman (ILT)

List Price: $9.99 (Paperback – Friendship / Birthday Celebration Delays – 2010)

The second book about Nikki and Deja, two African American third-grade girls who are best friends.

Deja’s birthday is coming up, and she’s been talking about it for weeks. But just before the big…

“This installment in the Geisel-winning Ty’s Travels series adds some much-needed diversity to the beginning-reader shelf” —Booklist 

Join Ty on his imaginative adventures in Ty’s Travels: Lab Magic, a My First I Can Read book by acclaimed author and illustrator team Kelly…

Eloise Greenfield (A) and Leo and Diane Dillon (ILT)

List Price: $7.99 (Paperback – Poetry – 1986)

Love don’t mean all that kissing
Like on television
Love Means Daddy
Saying keep your mama company till I get back
And me doing it

Sixteen poems tell of love and…

Ellen Labrecque (A), Dede Putra (ILT), Nancy Harrison (ILT)

List Price: $6.99 (Paperback – Biography / Author / Poet – 2016)

Born in Missouri in 1928, Maya Angelou had a difficult childhood. Jim Crow laws segregated blacks and whites in the South. Her family life was unstable at times. But much like her…

Camille Yarbrough (A)

List Price: $7.95 (Paperback – Family / Decision Making – 2004)

Tamika loves being a member of the Sweet Fruit club. Tamika also loves to wonder and use her mind freely. But sometimes this gets her into trouble, especially…

In this book from the #1 New York Times bestselling series, learn how this vibrant Black neighborhood in upper Manhattan became home to the leading Black writers, artists, and musicians of the 1920s and 1930s.

Travel back in time to the 1920s and 1930s to the sounds of jazz in nightclubs and the…

Laurie Calkhoven (A) and Monique Dong (ILT)

List Price: $4.64  (Paperback – Biography / Astronaut – 2016)

Blast off into space and get to know Mae Jemison—the first African-American woman to ever go to space—with this fascinating, nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read, part of a new series of biographies about people “you should meet.”

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April Jones Prince (A) and Robert Squier (ILT)

List Price: $5.99 (Paperback – Biography / Abolitionist / Orator – 2014)

Born into slavery in Maryland in 1818, Frederick Douglass was determined to gain freedom–and once he realized that knowledge was power, he secretly learned to read and write to give himself an advantage.…

Yona Zeldis McDonough (A), Nancy Harrison (ILT) and Stephen Marchesi (ILT)

List Price: $5.99 (Paperback – Biography – Activist /Civil Rights Leader – 2010)

In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. This seemingly small act triggered civil rights protests across America and earned…

Mary Hoffman (A)

List Price: $5.99 (Paperback – Friendship / Grief and Loss – 2112)

The spirited little girl with a big imagination who stars in Amazing Grace has two fun chapter books! In Encore, Grace!, when Grace’s family and group of friends change, Grace turns to her imagination to cope with things…

Laurie Calkhoven (A) and Stevie Lewis (ILT) 

List Price: $4.99 ( Paperback Surfer / Olympic Gold Medalist – 2017)

Get to know the father of modern surfing in this fascinating, nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read, part of a new series of biographies about people “you should meet.”

Meet Duke Kahanamoku, three-time Olympic gold medalist…

Beautiful Black and Brown boys are the stars in this level 1 Step Into Reading book from the Happy Hair series. It’s a bright, joyful easy reader that will have boys everywhere saying “I am born to be awesome!”

Kids will love seeing strong, happy reflections of themselves in this vibrant, rhyming, level 1 reader…

Tiki Barber (A), Ronde Barber (A) and Paul Mantell (Contri)

Price: $7.99  (Paperback – Series / Sports / Football- Grades/Probation – 2012) 

From NFL superstars Tiki and Ronde Barber, a story of teamwork and determination—in the classroom as well as on the field.

The eighth-grade season couldn’t be going better for the Barbers’…

Karen English (A) and Laura Freeman (ILT)

List Price: $6.99 (Paperback – Friendship /Decision Making – 2014)

Deja is dismayed to learn that her teacher has had an accident and a substitute will be taking her place. Under the new sub’s care, nothing…

From the #1 New York Times bestselling series comes the latest title in the Who HQ Now format for trending topics. It tells the history of a political and social movement that advocates for non-violent civil disobedience and protests against incidents of police brutality–and all racially…

In the same style as the New York Times Best-Selling Who Was? series, What Was? focuses on compelling historical events, great battles, protests, and discoveries.

Learn about a pivotal time in American history and its momentous effects on civil rights in America in this enlightening…

Kristen Anderson (A)

List Price: $5.99  (Paperback – Vice President of The United States – 2021)

The inspiring story of Vice President Kamala Harris told in the new Who HQ NOW format for trending topics.

On November 7, 2020, Kamala Harris, a senator from California, became the first woman and the first…

Learn about the inspiring life and career of professional football player and activist Colin Kaepernick in the new Who HQ Now format featuring newsmakers and trending topics.

On August 14, 2016, NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick began a protest when he refused to stand for the national anthem. He wanted…

Fans of Princess Posey and Ivy and Bean will enjoy rooting for Jada Jones as she runs for student council in this easy-to-read chapter book.

As a candidate for class representative, Jada is ready to give the campaign her all. But when rumors start to fly about her secret fear of public speaking, she isn’t…

Laura Hamilton Waxman (A)

List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Biography / Science – Aerospace Engineer – 2015) 

Have you ever built a cool science project? In middle school, Aprille Ericsson won second place in a science fair. She knew she wanted to keep creating amazing science projects. As an adult, she became an…

Mary Hoffman (A) and (ILT)

List Price: $6.99 (Paperback – Series / Imagination / Positive Attitude – 2011)

To mark the 20th anniversary of the publication of Amazing Grace, the spirited little girl with a big imagination returns. In this story Grace begins to grow up. When her family…

Shaquille O’Neal (A) and Theodore Taylor III (ILT)

List Price: $9.99 (Hardcover – Basketball Star / Confidence – 2017)

This new story in the exciting series created by Shaquille O’Neal and illustrated by Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent award winner Theodore Taylor III, encourages kids to find their own true talents.

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