Books for Reluctant Readers
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by Paul Kropp.
A short high school student goes out for his school's wrestling team and finds that size doesn't really matter if you feel good about yourself. "The wrestling team changes Jes' life and his encounter with Banjo and Joey provide the reader with a scene to remember."-Resource Links
Reading level: 3.5
Interest level: Grades 4-10
Welcome to HIP Books - the best books for reluctant and struggling readers
High Interest Publishing now offers four series of novels designed to bring success to students who don't like to read. Our award-winning HIP Senior series includes twenty-four high-interest, low-vocabulary novels suitable for striving readers in grades 6 to 12 who read at a grade 3-4 level. Our HIP Junior series now includes a dozen novels created for students in grades 3 to 6 who read at a grade 2 level. Our six HIP Edge novels offer a gritty series of readability-controlled novels for senior high readers. And our brand-new HIP Fantasy series is already getting rave reviews. These three novels offer high-action stories that feature dragons, heroism and magic ... all at a grade 3 reading level.
All HIP novels feature exciting stories with realistic characters and situations that grab the reader's interest quickly. Our editing and readability standards ensure that these books will continue to hold that interest page after page. Our comprehensive teacher's guides make it easy to use HIP novels in full class or small-group situations.
The HIP website also includes free material for teachers, including readers' theater plays, and special pages for parents to help them with reading development for their children at home. Use the blue "Resources" box or the upper bar to navigate around our website.
Price changes Let's start with the good news: more economical printing prices have made it possible to drop the price of HIP Jr and HIP Sr novels to $9.95. Unfortunately, the price for creating and printing our teacher's guides has gone up, so they are now $7.95. Until March Break, we're offering our Best of Both sale. You will automatically receive the new low price on HIP Jr and HIP Sr novels and the old $5.95 price for teacher's guides. (Web promo code BOB)
Lexile levels We now have Lexile levels for all our novels for those schools which use the Lexile system. Click on Lexile in the blue "Resources" box.
