Ages 11 to 12

Growing up comes with growing pains no matter what, but for twelve-year-old Libby, the changes feel like more than she can bear. After an incident caused by his worsening dementia, Libby’s grandfather comes to live with her family, a move that...

Twelve-year-old Maisie is an artist. When she’s in front of her sketchbook or apprenticing at Glenna’s Portraits, the family-run art shop her grandmother started, the world makes sense. She doesn’t think about Calum, her brother...

Discover the facts (and fiction) behind the outlandish legend of unicorns! This guide will teach you everything we know about mythical unicorns. Readers will learn about the legend behind the creature, its features, habitat, and more! Whimsical,...

Discover the facts (and fiction) behind the outlandish legend of the Loch Ness Monster! This guide will teach you everything we know about the mythical Loch Ness Monster. Readers will learn about the legend behind the creature, its features, habitat, and...

Discover the facts (and fiction) behind the outlandish legend of the Jersey Devil! This guide will teach you everything we know about the mythical Jersey Devil. Readers will learn about the legend behind the creature, its features, habitat, and more!...

Discover the facts (and fiction) behind the outlandish legend of Chupacabra! This guide will teach you everything we know about the mythical Chupacabra. Readers will learn about the legend behind the creature, its features, habitat, and more! Whimsical,...

Discover the facts (and fiction) behind the outlandish legend of the Bunyip! This guide will teach you everything we know about the mythical Bunyip. Readers will learn about the legend behind the creature, its features, habitat, and more! Whimsical,...

Discover the facts (and fiction) behind the outlandish legend of mermaids! This guide will teach you everything we know about mythical mermaids. Readers will learn about the legend behind the creature, its features, habitat, and more! Whimsical,...

Discover the facts (and fiction) behind the outlandish legend of fairies! This guide will teach you everything we know about mythical fairies. Readers will learn about the legend behind the creature, its features, habitat, and more! Whimsical,...

Discover the facts (and fiction) behind the outlandish legend of Bigfoot! This guide will teach you everything we know about the mythical Bigfoot. Readers will learn about the legend behind the creature, its features, habitat, and more! Whimsical,...

From infamous despots to famous philosophers, key characters and facets of the ancient world come alive in this hi-lo series for struggling readers. Written with reluctant readers in mind, considerate text, engaging stories, and intriguing sidebars and...

After learning the truth about her own fairy tale, twelve-year-old Gracie wants nothing more than to move past the terrible things author Gertrude Winters wrote about her and begin a new chapter in the real world. If only things were going as planned. On...

Twelve-year-old Gracie Freeman is living a normal life, but she is haunted by the fact that she is actually a character from a story, an unpublished fairy tale she’s never read. When she was a baby, her parents learned that she was supposed to die...

Meet Suki—a fourteen-year-old girl in sixteenth-century Japan. All she wants is to become a samurai warrior like her father and brother. But all her training attempts end in disaster. Yet when bandits threaten her village while the men are away at...

Meet Alexander—a boy living in Athens, Greece, in 380 BC. The famous Olympic games are just around the corner, and he gets to go and assist one of Athens’ prized athletes. But when the athlete gets sick the day of his competition, can...

Meet Clara—a girl living in Los Angeles, California, in 1915. Major motion-picture companies have moved out to Hollywood, and she’s right in the middle of all the action. When she finds herself working behind the scenes in the film industry...

Meet Ellie—an enthusiastic, bumbling teenager who is fascinated with Mars. When a misunderstanding lands her in the astronaut training program for the first human mission to Mars, Ellie is determined to prove her worth. The hilarious Long-Lost...

Meet Ahmed—a boy living near the Valley of the Kings in Egypt in 1922. Though he’s grateful for his job as a photographer’s assistant, he’d like to shoot something more interesting than rich tourists in front of the temple in...

Meet Ann—a smart but unlucky teenager keeping a diary of her life as she hunts for dinosaur bones. When she gets an opportunity to search for fossils in the American West, Ann is determined to turn her luck around and show the world her discoveries...

Join Lily, Robert, and their mechanimal fox, Malkin, on three daring adventures of mystery and mayhem. From extraordinary inventions to notorious criminals to high-flying rescues, Lily and Robert get wrapped up in wild exploits—and uncover secrets...

What’s more terrifying than being forced into a coed combat wrestling martial art by your own mother? Sixth grade. Angie Larson hates Jiu-Jitsu. Like many twelve-year-old girls, she fails to find the glamour in a martial art that embraces zero...

Thirteen-year-old Maddie just wants her classmate Lucas to leave her alone. He keeps asking her out—as if she hasn’t already said no a thousand times! Focusing on her competitive swim team, the Electric Eels, Maddie tries to ignore him,...

Morgan is devastated by her mother’s sudden death. Before, Mom’s amazing organizational skills kept the family on track, and her bowl of lemon drops was always on hand to make difficult conversations easy, turning life’s sour into sweet...

Humans have a complex relationship with the planet Earth. Life depends on the planet's natural resources. Yet human activity has led to many environmental issues. Industry pollutes land, air, and water. Agriculture uses up clean water. In the...

What makes something "smart?" In the Exploring the Internet of Things series, readers discover how inanimate objects, from watches to home speakers to even t-shirts, help people get things done better, faster, and smarter. How can a ring book an Uber?...

Zeus's son Perseus has no wedding gift for King Polydectes so he offers to bring the king what he most desires. King Polydectes asks for the head of the gorgon Medusa. A dangerous request, as whomever looks at Medusa turns to stone. Perseus gets a...

The gods on Mount Olympus are bored. So Zeus's son Hephaestus populates the earth with men and animals for their amusement. Zeus then asks Hephaestus to create a woman, whom Zeus names Pandora. When Pandora marries, Zeus gives her a jar and tells her not...

Poseidon helps Minos become King of Crete and Minos agrees to sacrifice a white bull in his honor. When Minos reneges on the deal, Poseidon teams up with Eros to deceive Minos's wife Pasiphae, who then gives birth to a Minotaur. Minos imprisons the beast...

When Atlas loses a battle with Zeus, he is exiled to Tartarus. But Atlas escapes to live among the Mauri, where he becomes very successful. But Zeus finds out and punishes Atlas by forcing him to hold the heavens away from the earth. Will Atlas bear this...

Achilles is his father's sixth son. His five brothers all died as infants. To protect Achilles from the same fate, his mother Thetis dips him into the River Styx. When Greece attacks Troy, Achilles joins the fight. Will his mother's treatment keep him...

Meet Bone and Muscle without them we wouldn't be able to sit, stand, or walk! Readers will join colorful characters to learn about how their skeletal and muscular system supports them. Along the way they'll be introduced to bone marrow, osteoblasts,...

Meet your lungs they help your body take in oxygen! Join colorful characters as they learn how the respiratory system helps to provide cells with the oxygen they need to survive. Readers will learn about respiration, carbon dioxide, diaphragm, lungs,...

Meet your brain they help to direct your movements, focus your eyes, contract your muscles, and sense your surroundings! Join colorful characters as they explore how the nervous system and brain manage to do all this! Readers will learn about the spinal...

Meet the endocrine system it helps regulate your body's many functions! Join colorful characters as they explore how glands regulate the body's systems by releasing hormones. Readers will learn about life cycles, hormones, the reproductive system,...

Meet the digestive system it helps you process tasty foods! Join colorful characters as they explore how the human body removes wastes and gains energy from food. Readers will learn about nutrition, digestion, the mouth, stomach, liver, small intestine,...

Meet your heart they help deliver blood to your entire body! Join them as they introduce readers to the circulatory system and the lifegiving power of blood. This colorful graphic novel will introduce students to red blood cells, platelets, white blood...

Join a group of white blood cells as they work to protect your body from harmful invaders! Readers will join the cells as they learn about the immune system, antibodies, microbes, infections, disease, pandemics, viruses, and bacteria. Students will learn...

Have you ever wondered what your body is made out of? What about how tiny cells create huge organisms? This colorful graphic novel will help you answer those questions by introducing cell structures, organelles, tissues, organs, and the digestive,...

Meet Sound they're a form of energy that we can hear! Sound is here to explain where they come from and how humans can hear. Readers will learn about sound waves, the anatomy of the ear, echo, and why sounds are high or low. They'll meet scientists...

Meet Matter they make up everything that has mass and takes up space! Matter is here to introduce readers to its many properties, including color, texture, size, and shape. Students will shrink down and look inside of matter where they'll learn about...