Books for Reluctant Readers
Bats in the Graveyard
by Sharon Jennings.
The second book in Sharon Jennings' Bats series. Sam and Simon (the Bat Gang) have to look after Simon's little sister on Halloween night. Soon the Bats end up in the graveyard - chased by a ghoul, crying for help. And then it all gets worse!
Reading Level: 2.4
Interest Level: Grades 3-8
ISBN: 1-897039-18-2
Welcome to HIP Books - the best books for struggling readers
High Interest Publishing now offers four series of novels designed to bring success to struggling readers. 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.
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Two new Edge books are coming. In April, we'll have two new Edge books by Tony Varrato and Paul Kropp. Varrato's One Last Scar is a hard-hitting book very much like his Outrage. Kropp's Death on the Sidewalk is based on the real-life murder of a Toronto girl on the day after Christmas, 2007.
