Little Monsters, a fun twist on Little Women that engages girls aged 8-12

I never read Little Women. I saw the shout-out that the classic book received in Ride or Die, felt momentarily guilty for it, but it’s not enough to make me read it. Little Monsters alludes to that classic title by having “Little” in the same regal font as “Women”, but having the latter word physically scratched out via a series of horizontal claw marks. Underneath that is “Monsters”, hastily scrawled as if someone’s leaving the scene of a cattle mutilation. You don’t need to have read the timeless book it references to be attracted to Little Monsters. This is a retelling of that story, and updated in ways that will engage young readers.

Little Monsters twists the time and setting of Little Women, and adds some monster paranoia, that will entertain girls in upper-elementary through middle.
Girls, gossip, monster, paranoia the destroyer

Lonely Planet Kids Let’s Go Rock Collecting: fun, go-to edutainment

The rabbit hole is a metaphor that I use in class a lot. It’s really fun explaining that to a group of elementary school students. The older students more readily understand it, but are less likely to enjoy the thrill of following it. Lonely Planet Kids Let’s Go Rock Collecting is the best kind of rabbit hole for mid-elementary through mid-middle school ages. The content, as well as, the enjoyment in Rock Collecting can demo much higher, but that’s if audiences are able to look past its young-skewing illustrations.

Let’s Go: Rock Collecting is a field resource guide that demands to be used and experienced by ages eight through middle school.
Rock on young STEM people

The Declaration Decoded effortlessly explains the document for ages 10 & up

The Declaration Decoded: A Guide to the Document that Inspired Our Nation implies that everyone who reads it will be a citizen of the United States. Imply and infer are tricky concepts to master, aren’t they? We’ve read other books that explained the Declaration of Independence, but those books are aimed at young audiences. This is all a bit ironic because the shape of The Declaration Decoded is smaller and more rectangular. Its more compact, hand-held package that seemingly aims at a younger demographic. Young and younger are all relative, aren’t they?

Through its format and writing, The Declaration Decoded: A Guide to the Document that Inspired our Nation makes learning fun and effortless.
make history fun, and something I can understand. Hold my drink.

Lionel Messi’s World Cup Triumph, a graphic novel that scores

Show me a book that makes someone care about something that they don’t care about, or know much about, and you’ll show me a great book. Lionel Messi’s World Cup Triumph: History’s Greatest Games #1 takes that challenge and enthusiastically says “Goaaaaaal”, with as much enthusiasm and energy as fans would expect from the game. Yes, but the surprising part about Lionel Messi’s World Cup Triumph is that it takes one game from his career, the 2022 World Cup Finale, and infuses that, as well as his life, and the evolution of football itself into a graphic novel that entertains and makes you care.

Lionel Messi’s World Cup Triumph is a graphic novel that allows ‘readers’ and ‘sports kids’ to agree that this book is awesome.
Football reading awesomeness in a graphic novel

Lot and Lots of Ocelots make math students wish they had it earlier

Why do I need to remind our 14-year-old of his multiplication tables? He’s “on level”, got a B in eighth-grade math, but I’m still reminding him of what 8 x 8 or what 64 divided by 8 is. Something is amiss in the state of middle school mathematics. Lot and Lots of Ocelots: A Skip Counting Book does not have this problem. If anything, Lots and Lots of Ocelots is the pre-school and early-elementary school- kryptonite to a problem that could vex kids in four-to-seven years.

Lot and Lots of Ocelots: A Skip Counting Book is the fun, effortlessly educational book that delayed middle school math students secretly wish that they had seven years earlier.
I say skip, you say count, Skip, count, skip count

Blood in the Water is younger-skewing mglit that speaks to grades 4-7

Blood in the Water has a nice, bubbling sense of tension. Creating a book for mid-elementary school through mid-middle school can’t be easy. That age is learning to read chapter books, reluctant to read anything, or too ensconced in fart-borne books to care about anything else. Young readers in that eight through 14 demographic want to read something with bite and suspense. Throw in the caveat that said book needs to be age-appropriate, and you’ve got a bit of a challenge on your hands.

Blood in the Water is realistic fiction, albeit on the dramatic end, that will speak to kids in upper elementary through lower middle school.
For a season, this book will scratch the itch

Louisa Learns to Write, illustrated book works for kids aged seven and up.

Louisa Learns to Write is an illustrated book that’s unlike anything you’ve seen before. It tells a story, but not in a manner that elementary school audiences are used to. It operates on two levels without audiences realizing it until the end of the book. As the titular character is growing up, she’s learning deeper life lessons that translate to anyone, regardless of age. Louisa Learns to Write: Louisa May Alcott Creates Little Women isn’t so much about the creation of the seminal piece of literature, as it is about the things that shaped Alcott’s life.

Louisa Learns to Write is not the illustrated book you think it is. Little Women author, Louisa May Alcott’s macro look at the characteristics that made her successful.
Louisa May Alcott, yes, but more

Actual Factual Files: Ancient Egypt, gets young ages to read non-fiction

When I was in elementary and middle school I was knee-deep in curiosity about ancient Egypt. I also wasn’t a reader at that age. The internet didn’t exist and if I wanted to browse information on a topic I had to look through an encyclopedia. Yes, my family had a set of them, which weren’t used nearly as often as my parents would’ve wished. I remember my sister searching in vain for information on the cold war and having to ask my father instead. RIP, the physical monolith of Encyclopedia Britannica. Actual Factual Files: Ancient Egypt is the time-traveling book I needed when I was seven years old.

Actual Factual Files: Ancient Egypt is the most approachable, non-intimidating and informative text aimed at elementary school readers on the area we’ve seen.
Lock, meet key

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