Ages 13 to 14

Bounced between foster homes since the age of seven, Jessica knows better than to set down roots. Most of the kids at her new Michigan high school think she’s a witch anyway (because, you know, goth). The only one who gives her the time of day is...

After Philly teenager Alexis Duncan is injured in a gang shooting, her dreams of a college scholarship and pro basketball career vanish in an instant. To avoid becoming another Black teen trapped in her poverty-stricken neighborhood, she shifts her focus...

It’s been a rough year for Alex Collins. In the past twelve months, he’s lost his best friend, become the target of the two biggest bullies at school, and been sentenced to community service. But on June 25, 2013, he gets a call for help from...

Get healthy on their own—or stay sick together? At Recovery and Relief, a treatment center for girls with eating disorders, the first thing Shoshana Winnick does is attach herself to vibrant but troubled Rowan Parish. Shoshana—a cheerleader...

The Fandom Fever series provides an inside look to some of today's hottest musical fandoms. From Swifties to the BTS ARMY, fans and soon-to-be fans will enjoy this hi-lo series. Titles Included: Beyonce's BeyHive Blackpink's Blinks Harry Style's Harries...

Help students get the concepts they need to know while building foundational reading skills with The Breakdown. Each title layers decoding strategies with comprehension skills to ensure students can access the text as they build content knowledge. With...

Sphinxes and dragons and witches, oh my! Join Elena, her big brother Jorge, and their friends Marcus, Fiona, and Amy as they travel through time to ancient civilizations hunting for mythical monsters and keeping them safe from the eyes of history! This...

Nightmute Academy offers a unique summer learning experience. As new students Suni, Gale, and Shi-woo will discover, there's more than reading, writing, and arithmetic taking place on campus. In this school's lockers, you're just as likely to find a...

Doing the right thing is never easy--especially if you feel alone. But having friends who are out of this world can help! A spaceship full of alien athletes who crash-landed on Earth offer advice to their new human friends. Whether it's confidence...

Do you think students can tell fact from fiction? In a world where social media reigns supreme and tweets and posts go viral, discerning what's fact from fiction can be more difficult than it seems. The Conspiracy Theories: DEBUNKED series takes a closer...

Could you survive being stranded at sea? What about a plane crash in the middle of the jungle? Each book in the True Survival series explores a shocking survival story. Books are written with a high interest level and lower level of complexity to serve...

The Nerd Culture hi-lo series covers popular topics in the nerd community: DIY, fantasy, gaming, Japanese popular culture, role-playing, and science fiction. Titles Included: Nerding Out About DIY Nerding Out About Fantasy Nerding Out About Gaming...

Each title uncovers some of the most famous fakers, schemers, and cheaters who turned the world, and the truth, upside down across the ages. Readers of this high-low series learn how to spot a lie and confirm the truth for themselves as they look a...

Everyone knows their stories, but do you know the REAL history behind the stories? History has never been so juicy! Written with a high interest level to appeal to a more mature audience and a lower level of complexity with clear visuals to help...

Who were history's biggest rebels? Who was voted "Life of the Party"? Who had the biggest heart? In the History's Yearbook series, readers will learn about the amazing women in history. From business savvy "girl bosses" to fierce women warriors to...

Failure is part of life, and the old adage "try, try again" is at the center of this hi-lo series exploring failures across industries that, with ingenuity and resilience, turned into some of the world's greatest success stories. Surprising origin...

Could you survive a zombie apocalypse? What about being hunted by predators? Or an AI uprising? This book could save your life. Each book in this series contains five survivalist hacks from everyday objects, monsters don't stand a chance! Hacks are...

The STEM Files graphic novel series focuses on the hilarious, top secret stories of ambitious, but inept, would-be evil villains. These blundering cast of characters try their hardest to take over the world and unleash their evil plan only to fail...

Science can be weird. What's the purpose of snot? How do we taste flavors? Why do polar bears look white if their skin is black? In How the Heck Does That Work?! series, readers will explore the science behind how things work from plants to space to the...

The truth is out there, and the Star Gazers is looking for it! Follow friends Erin, Mateo, and Noel as they follow clues that lead them through Area 51, deep under the sea, and even into outer space. On the way, they meet some out-of-this-world aliens...

After being bitten by a highly advanced robot, Imran soon discovers that he has nanotechnology coursing through his veins. Now, able to do things that kids his age can only dream of, Imran becomes Robot Boy--a crime-fighting superhero who uses his...

Malcolm and his friend Daniela are having the coolest summer ever. Malcolm's dad, Dr. Thomas, has brought them to his work--on Mars! Exploring the unexplored up close is every young scientist's dream. The planet's craters, dust storms, and volcanoes lead...

As an adventurous team prepares to return to Earth from Mars, they break down their camp and make notes about how to improve the livable conditions of Mars for both future explorers and long-term sustainable life. The subject of terraforming intrigues...

An adventurous team discovers why the chaos terrain of Mars is so chaotic when waves of lava flow over the land, trapping them on a ridge. With the magma rising, Malcolm imagines the region as a migratory haven for the birds of Mars, and through this...

Even with no visible water present, the team discovers a vast ocean that stretches deep beneath the surface of Mars. While Malcolm imagines the aquatic Martians who live there to be uniquely adapted to the dark, their technology proves to not be as...

Mesmerized by the unique landscape of the brain terrain, Malcolm imagines the type of Martians that could have adapted to life along the complex ridges that wrinkle the landscape. Stranded a long way from camp, the team must harness the energy from a...

An adventurous team inspects a series of volcanoes on Mars but these puzzling structures erupt with mud instead of lava. When Daniela gets too close to one of the formations, her beloved biologist field kit falls in, sinking beneath the surface. Dr...

An adventurous team explores the Mars plains, which is littered with impact craters as far as the eye can see. As Malcolm imagines the region filled with gentle giants who travel in herds, Daniela analyzes the soil and makes a startling realization--a...

Three interplanetary explorers arrive at the yardangs of Mars, a series of spellbinding rocky ridges that have been shaped by centuries of wind erosion. But the team runs into trouble when their portable navigation device gets damaged! Surrounded by...

The rover Perseverance is damaged and stranded in the windswept sand seas of Mars. The team of interplanetary explorers locates the rover, but Dr. Thomas is unable to repair it in the field without the necessary parts. Malcolm and Daniela volunteer to...

Meet Three he's a whole number who's still finding his place in the world! Readers will join Three as he learns about the importance of whole numbers and how they help us. Students will learn about place value, naming and comparing numbers, rounding,...

Meet Dorothy Fourteen she lives on a farm in Kansas and struggles with measurement in her daily life. One day, Dorothy is whisked away to Metric Land, where she meets a cast of colorful, mathematical characters. There she learns about the metric system...

Meet Alice Twelve, an ordinary girl from Number City. One day she falls into a rabbit hole and finds herself lost in a magical world full of ratios and proportions. Readers will help her as she solves mathematical problems and meets colorful characters...

Meet the Operations Team together they work to fight crime in Number City! Readers will be introduced to the concepts of functions, comparing quantities, estimation, exponents, and mental math as they explore Number City. Students are invited to test...

After a mischievous dog steals the plans for Geometry World, a group of shapes must team up to rebuild it! Join them on their journey to understand planes, points, shapes, and angles in order to recreate their reality. Readers will learn about different...

Join Three and Eight as they dive into the magical world of Polygon Land! There readers will meet colorful quadrilaterals, circles, triangles, composite figures, and more! Students will learn about methods for calculating the areas, perimeters, and...

Join Fluke Eleven as he sets out to defeat Lord Calculator and sink the Evil Space Station. Along the way, Fluke will learn about equations and how they can help him. Colorful characters will introduce readers to variables, equations, and expressions...

Join the crew of the M.S. Number Line as they explore the mysterious Planet of the Decimals! Through their journey, readers will learn about what decimals represent, decimal models, place value, rounding, fractions, and adding, subtracting, multiplying,...

Three and Eight head to the Mascot Winter Games to explore data and statistics. Unfortunately, the Masked Menace is ruining all the fun. Can you help crack the case with the help of math? Throughout the book, readers will learn a variety of ways to...

Join the crew of the M.S. Number Line as they explore the mysterious Planet of the Fractions! Through their journey, readers will learn to compare, add, subtract, divide, and multiply fractions. Colorful characters and a graphicnovel format help to hook...