Why do educators and students love Acorn?

• Acorn serves the same audience as leveled readers, but a unique and sophisticated trim size reaches them in a fresh new way.
• Acorn books are all story collections and can be read in any order.
• Each Acorn book features an exciting activity at the back to further engage growing readers.
• Easy-to-read text and color-coded speech bubbles make it easy for kids to follow along and for families to read aloud.
• Acorn books feature best-selling and award-winning authors and illustrators such as Dav Pilkey, Norm Feuti, Mark Teague, Jonathan Fenske, Max Brallier, Ross Burach, Hazel Quintanilla, Cynthia Rylant, and Heather Ayris Burnell.

Why do educators and students love Branches?

• Branches engages kids so they feel successful in reading an entire chapter book.
• Each Branches book presents familiar characters that they come to know and like.
• Branches books feature artwork on every page.
• Branches encourages students to use different reading strategies such as context clues.
• Branches books provide accessible language and vocabulary.
• Branches helps readers integrate meaning, syntax, and phonics easily.