Hook readers with engaging books that promote literacy success! Scholastic’s After School Reading Club is specifically designed to motivate your students to read and discuss books that target their interests. You’ll get 10-packs of single titles for individual, group, and shared reading. Plus, additional teaching resources like extension activities and vocabulary skill-builders help to bring literacy success to after school programs.
FEATURED BOOKS
Grades K-2:
An Extraordinary Egg
In this book by the award-winning author/illustrator Leo Lionni, a frog named Jessica finds a beautiful pebble that hatches into what everyone believes is a green, scaly "chicken." They remain inseparable friends until a little bird leads the "chicken" back to its mother, who smiles and calls her "my sweet little alligator."
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Grades 3-5:
Dear Mr. Henshaw
Leigh Botts has been author Boyd Henshaw's number one fan ever since he was in second grade. Now in sixth grade, Leigh lives with his mother and is the new kid at school. He's lonely, troubled by the absence of his father, a cross-country trucker, and angry because a mysterious thief steals from his lunch bag. Then Leigh's teacher assigns a letter-writing project. Naturally Leigh chooses to write to Mr. Henshaw, whose surprising answer changes Leigh's life.
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Grades 6-8:
Chasing Vermeer
Petra and Calder find themselves in the middle of an international art scandal. Can they use their intuition and knowledge of Vermeer to solve a case that has left the FBI baffled? A wealth of quirky characters enrich the exciting, fast-paced story that's sure to be relished by mystery lovers.