Comics Plus Elementary (1 Year Subscription)

Comics Plus offers unlimited access to thousands of digital comics, graphic novels, and manga from a diverse range of publishers. Whether you're a fan of superheroes, fantasy, or indie gems, Comics Plus has something for everyone. Enjoy seamless reading across multiple devices, with new titles added regularly to keep your library fresh and exciting. Dive into your favorite stories anytime, anywhere!

Elementary Package (PreK-5/Ages 3-10)

Tailored for beginning and emerging readers from preschool through elementary school, this collection is ideal for reluctant and remedial readers, including those in early middle school. It offers a variety of formats, from picture books and early readers to traditional comic books and manga with simplified panel layouts, including comic strips. Key titles include Avatar: The Last Airbender, Awkward, Big Nate, Bone, Disney Manga, Geronimo Stilton, Minecraft, My Little Pony, Really Bird, The Sisters, and Sonic the Hedgehog. Featured publishers include ABDO, Andrews McMeel, BOOM! Studios, Capstone, Cherry Lake, Frederator, Immedium, Lerner, Papercutz, Red Comet, Rosen, Saddleback Educational, and Yen Press.

The Elementary Package includes the following collections: Emergent, Children & Kids. 

Emergent (PreK - Grade 1/Ages 3 - 5)

• Readers: Preschool and kindergarten; may be able to recognize sight words but can’t read independently yet.
• Format: Picture books and early readers; comic books with simplified panel layouts.
• Language: Simplified word balloons; no swearing.
• Content: Story intensity, action, and violence should be similar to children’s television shows, reflecting age-appropriate experiences.

Children (K - 3/Ages 5 - 7)

• Readers: Kindergarten and early elementary school; reluctant and remedial readers in elementary.
• Format: Picture books and early readers; comic books with simple panel layouts, including comic strips.
• Language: Simplified word balloons; no swearing.
• Content: Story intensity, action, and violence should be similar to G-rated movies, while reflecting age-appropriate experiences.

Kids (Grades 3 - 5/Ages 8 - 10)

• Readers: Elementary school age readers; reluctant and remedial readers in elementary through early middle school.
• Format: Traditional comic books and manga with simplified panel layouts, including comic strips.
• Language: While some readers in this range can handle mild profanity, particularly in a humorous context, every family has different rules about swearing, so a very conservative approach is required at this level.
• Content: Story intensity, action, and violence should be similar to PG-rated movies, while reflecting age-appropriate experiences. Romantic relationships and scenes of affection between partners (hugging, holding hands) are age-appropriate; emphasizing beauty, hypersexualized appearances, sexual behaviors, and stereotyped sexual roles is not age-appropriate. Drinking, drugs, smoking, and risky stunts aren’t age-appropriate.
• Educational value: Readers in this age range will benefit from content that supports school-readiness, including social-emotional skills such as self-control. Older children are often reading for pleasure, so stories can build on school lessons from a full range of subjects, including history and science. Stories should expose them to diverse experiences; encourage them to think about other people’s lives; or teach them about different times and places.

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Teen Collection (Grades 6 - 8/Ages 11 - 14)

• Readers: Active readers in upper elementary and middle school; reluctant and remedial readers in high school.
• Format: Comic books, manga, hybrid prose/comics; more sophisticated panel layouts.
• Language: Mild profanity is age-appropriate in small doses, but every family has different rules about swearing, so a relatively conservative approach is observed.
• Content: Story intensity, action, and violence should be equivalent to a typical PG-13 rated movie, while also reflecting a typical middle grader’s life experiences. Historical contexts of violence, including violence experienced by particular social groups, are considered age-appropriate. Humor may come at the expense of authority, and poop jokes and other potty humor are considered age-appropriate. Kissing and dating are age-appropriate; partial or full nudity and simulated sex are not. Disrespectful portrayals of characters as sexual objects or as sexual aggressors are not age-appropriate, nor is humor that relies on these themes.
• Educational value: Readers in this range are often reading for pleasure, so stories can build on school lessons from a full range of subjects, including history and science, and can expose them to diverse experiences, encourage them to think about other people’s lives and viewpoints, or teach them about different times and places.

Young Adult Collection (Grades 9 - 12/Ages 15 - 18)

• Readers: Active teenage readers in upper middle and high school; reluctant and remedial adult readers.
• Format: All.
• Language: Every family has different rules about swearing, so a mildly conservative approach is always preferable; similar to a more intense PG-13 movie.
• Content: Story intensity, action, and violence are equivalent to more intense PG-13 movies like the Fast & Furious, James Bond, and Twilight franchises, while also reflecting a typical teenager’s life experiences. Some violence and blood, but no explicit, gratuitous, or excessive gore. Some nonsexual, partial nudity, or sexually suggestive content, but nothing gratuitously portrayed. Relevant coming-of-age body, health, and sexual situations are age-appropriate. Humor deriving from sexual innuendo or bodily functions is age-appropriate, but disrespectful portrayals of characters as sexual objects or as sexual aggressors are not, nor is humor that relies on these themes. Pairing sex and violence is not age-appropriate.
• Educational value: Teenagers can glean educational value from less obvious lessons, and understand that knowledge can be gained from the experience of non-ideal situations, including historic or realistic context. It’s important for teens to become global citizens and learn about other cultures and points of view. Stories can build on school lessons from a full range of subjects, including history and science, to promote social emotional learning, exposing them to diverse experiences, encouraging them to think about other people’s lives, or teach them about different times and places.