Last month, Scholastic launched Dav Pilkey’s fifth Dog Man graphic novel, Dog Man: Lord of the Fleas, with a three million–copy first printing. That was big news, dwarfing Scholastic’s ...

Last year, almost all of the top 40 books read in grades nine through 12 were well below grade level. The most popular books, the three books in The Hunger Games series, were assessed to be at the ...

Both of these studies looked at Florida, a state that has had a 3rd grade reading policy on the books since 2003. In a 2017 study , researchers followed students who were retained in 3rd grade ...