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They make terrific reading for students at all levels: engaging stories with realistic characters and exciting plot lines, written by accomplished YA authors.
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They are carefully edited to ensure consistent reading difficulty on every page; a student who can read the first chapter will be able to read the entire book.
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They are full of supports for struggling readers, from attention to page layout, spacing and line breaks to black-and-white sketch illustrations.
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In spite of these supports, they look just like any other teen or adolescent novel – an important consideration for struggling readers.
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Each novel is accompanied by its own teacher’s guide, containing discussion points for higher-level thinking, graphic organizers to support comprehension, and after-reading suggestions to extend and enrich the experience with the book.