Bonus Level Books

Chapter books for kids who'd rather be gaming.

Funny, spooky and action-packed adventures for ages 6 to 14, set in the kinds of worlds they already love to play in. Every book is a complete story.

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Pizza, Hold the Smoke book cover

The Extra Cheese Crew, book 2, ages 8–12

Pizza, Hold the Smoke

Fire in the kitchen! (Again.) (It wasn't Emilio.) (Probably.)

Eleven days into her job at a pizza game, ten-year-old Mae Galanis knows the oldest rule in the Pizza Place: nobody gets paid until the pizza reaches the door. Now her best friend Emilio, who treats every pizza like a painting, has challenged her to a cook-off during the Golden Rush, the best four minutes of the day.

Snow days and holiday reads

Winter and Christmas adventures that make easy stocking stuffers.

Bacon Hair Saves the Holidays, book 1 of Bacon Hair Rises

Bacon Hair Saves the Holidays

Flee the Sleigh Hangar, book 1 of Facility Breakout

Flee the Sleigh Hangar

Tiny Enough to Hide in a Stocking, book 2 of Tiny in a Giant House

Tiny Enough to Hide in a Stocking

Detectives, Did the Snow Golem Do It?, book 2 of The Redstone Detectives

Detectives, Did the Snow Golem Do It?

Grab the Icicle Egg, book 2 of The Speedy Yolks

Grab the Icicle Egg

My Horse Thinks She's a Snowplow, book 2 of Sunny Meadow Ranch

My Horse Thinks She's a Snowplow

Every world we publish

23 series, 39 books

The Dewlight Fairies

by Posy Larkmoor

Ages 6–8Gentle
Bluet has waited seven whole summers for Firefly Night. Now it's going to rain.

Gentle read-aloud stories about the smallest fairy in a mossy village, and the kindness that makes her brave.

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Bluet and the Firefly Night, book 1 of The Dewlight Fairies

Bluet and the Firefly Night

Bluet and the Empty Fairy House, book 2 of The Dewlight Fairies

Bluet and the Empty Fairy House

Floor by Floor

by Leon Spire

Ages 6–8Funny
Fall off, float down, try again. That's how the Tower works.

Funny tower-climbing stories for younger readers about falling, laughing and trying one more time.

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Climbing the Zap-Brick Tower, book 1 of Floor by Floor

Climbing the Zap-Brick Tower

Team Checkpoint

by Bart Noonan

Ages 6–8FunnySpooky
The dough is awake. And it wants to KEEP you.

Spooky-silly chase stories for younger readers on the bounciest obby course in town.

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Escape Before the Dough Rises!, book 1 of Team Checkpoint

Escape Before the Dough Rises!

Bacon Hair Rises

by Lyle Brindlewood

Ages 8–12FunnyAction
Everyone in Spawnbury thinks Nolan Tibbs just got here. He has lived there his whole life.

The kid everyone calls bacon hair keeps saving the day, and learns that what you wear never decides what you're worth.

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Bacon Hair Saves the Holidays, book 1 of Bacon Hair Rises

Bacon Hair Saves the Holidays

Blockburst Academy

by Dexter Halberd

Ages 8–12FunnyAction
The Fizzles are ranked dead last. Tonight, they're the only heroes left.

The lowest-ranked squad at a superhero school, where every power works like something from the blocky world.

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Superhero Rookies and the Big Fizzle, book 1 of Blockburst Academy

Superhero Rookies and the Big Fizzle

Superhero Rookies and the Glide-Off, book 2 of Blockburst Academy

Superhero Rookies and the Glide-Off

Brewstone Academy

by Tilda Hartwell

Ages 9–12FunnyAdventure
Every brew takes twenty seconds. Etta Honeycutt has never once waited for all twenty.

Witch school in a crooked stone tower, where all magic is real brewing and one student never waits the full twenty seconds.

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The Potion That Took Forever, book 1 of Brewstone Academy

The Potion That Took Forever

The Potion That Healed a Zombie, book 2 of Brewstone Academy

The Potion That Healed a Zombie

Facility Breakout

by Calvin Drummond

Ages 8–12ActionMystery
Crack the terminals. Dodge the Chiller. Go back for your friends before the frost reaches the top.

Four friends race to escape a game facility before time runs out, and nobody gets left behind. Code-breaker puzzles included.

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Flee the Sleigh Hangar, book 1 of Facility Breakout

Flee the Sleigh Hangar

The Gate of Eight Clocks

by Jasper Tock

Ages 9–12Adventure
Brush the dirt off a broken pot, and you can walk into the day it was made.

Time-travel archaeology adventures with a kid who always jumps first, a gate ringed with eight gold clocks and real history.

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Time Travel to the Age of First Fires, book 1 of The Gate of Eight Clocks

Time Travel to the Age of First Fires

The Grand Lantern Hotel

by Clara Hollister

Ages 8–12MysterySpooky
Something in Room 108 is eating the guests' treasures. And something on the back stair is waiting for a wooden door to give.

Spot-the-clue mysteries in a hotel where every corner is lit, because nothing can appear in a lit room.

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Mystery Hides in Room 108, book 1 of The Grand Lantern Hotel

Mystery Hides in Room 108

Mystery Hides in Room 412, book 2 of The Grand Lantern Hotel

Mystery Hides in Room 412

Howlwood Pack

by Rhett Coldridge

Ages 8–12FunnyAction
In the village of Mossrock, the most dangerous word is SIT. Especially on the night of the full moon.

A werewolf family guards its village every full moon, and Shep is really bad at holding still.

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Werewolf, Sit!, book 1 of Howlwood Pack

Werewolf, Sit!

Werewolf, Shake!, book 2 of Howlwood Pack

Werewolf, Shake!

The Lighthouse Lookouts

by Gale Torrance

Ages 8–12ActionAdventure
In the game, you run out of the building. In real life, you get inside. Ingrid Storvik just mixed them up.

Four friends survive disasters in a game, then learn what to do when the storm is real. Real disaster-science facts inside.

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Tornado Incoming!, book 1 of The Lighthouse Lookouts

Tornado Incoming!

Flash Flood Incoming!, book 2 of The Lighthouse Lookouts

Flash Flood Incoming!

The Nightshade Kids

by Vivienne Darrow

Ages 8–12FunnySpooky
Mina Nightshade has one goal this week: be normal. That is very hard when you are an eleven-year-old vampire.

A family of night folk, a nosy neighbor and a lot of sun-sneezes: spooky-funny stories about being proud of who you are.

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Vampires Are Bad at Being Normal, book 1 of The Nightshade Kids

Vampires Are Bad at Being Normal

Vampires Are Bad at Houseguests, book 2 of The Nightshade Kids

Vampires Are Bad at Houseguests

Not a Peep at Granny's

by Ada Grimsby

Ages 8–12SpookyFunny
Every midnight, something in Granny's locked attic moans, clanks and gallops. And Granny can hear you tiptoe.

Three kids, five days and the creakiest house on the hill: a hair-raising escape story with plenty of laughs.

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Granny Can Hear You Tiptoe, book 1 of Not a Peep at Granny's

Granny Can Hear You Tiptoe

Oddstone Middle School

by Juniper Crowe

Ages 9–12FunnyMysterySpooky
At a school where nobody is normal, the normal kid is the weird one.

The one normal kid at a school full of monsters, solving the school's strangest mysteries.

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Monster Homeroom and the Midnight Bell, book 1 of Oddstone Middle School

Monster Homeroom and the Midnight Bell

Monster Homeroom and the Vanishing Pumpkins, book 2 of Oddstone Middle School

Monster Homeroom and the Vanishing Pumpkins

The Redstone Detectives

by Hugo Brackett

Ages 8–12Mystery
The whole town says the fox did it. The detectives say: prove it.

Solve-it-yourself mysteries with fair-play clues, a one-horned goat with opinions and a reveal readers can beat the detectives to.

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Detectives, Did the Fox Do It?, book 1 of The Redstone Detectives

Detectives, Did the Fox Do It?

Detectives, Did the Snow Golem Do It?, book 2 of The Redstone Detectives

Detectives, Did the Snow Golem Do It?

Seaglass Mermaids

by Coral Penrose

Ages 8–12FunnyAdventure
A mermaid who hates sand. A boy who won't put his face under water. And a treasure buried right where the sea meets the beach.

A mermaid and her shore-kid best friend on daring ocean adventures, from axolotl nurseries to the dark Kelp Woods.

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The Mermaid Who Hated Sand, book 1 of Seaglass Mermaids

The Mermaid Who Hated Sand

The Mermaid Who Raced a Nautilus, book 2 of Seaglass Mermaids

The Mermaid Who Raced a Nautilus

The Squires of Pebblecrown

by Percy Galloway

Ages 9–12ActionAdventure
The realm's second knight just drank the dark bottle. On purpose.

Three squires from the smallest kingdom around, on quests that need more teamwork than swords.

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Knights Fear Nothing Except Pillagers, book 1 of The Squires of Pebblecrown

Knights Fear Nothing Except Pillagers

Sunny Meadow Ranch

by Maisie Saddleton

Ages 8–12AdventureAnimals
My horse thinks she's a unicorn. My little sister agrees with her. I'm the one who cleans her hooves.

Ranch life, brave rescues and a very dramatic white mare who keeps thinking she's something else.

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My Horse Thinks She's a Unicorn, book 1 of Sunny Meadow Ranch

My Horse Thinks She's a Unicorn

My Horse Thinks She's a Snowplow, book 2 of Sunny Meadow Ranch

My Horse Thinks She's a Snowplow

Tiny in a Giant House

by Arlo Pemberton

Ages 8–12SpookyAction
She finds everyone. He has never been found.

Hide-and-seek showdowns where a spoon is a bridge and the seeker glows orange, told by the hider and the seeker in turn.

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Tiny Enough to Hide in a Teacup, book 1 of Tiny in a Giant House

Tiny Enough to Hide in a Teacup

Tiny Enough to Hide in a Stocking, book 2 of Tiny in a Giant House

Tiny Enough to Hide in a Stocking

The Village of Borrowed Voices

by Selma Ravensby

Ages 10–14Spooky
On the shortest day of the year, Sumi Okada hears her little sister call her name from the dark mountain road. Once. But Koto is at home in the bath.

Japanese-folklore horror for brave older readers. Never answer the first call at dusk.

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The Yokai Knows Your Name, book 1 of The Village of Borrowed Voices

The Yokai Knows Your Name

Made for gamer kids, picked by grown-ups

Short chapters, real stakes

Fast chapters that end on a hook, with game rules that work the way kids expect.

Nothing you'd have to skip

No gore, no romance, no swearing. Game weapons are only ever used on monsters.

Start anywhere

Every book is a complete adventure, so a new reader can jump in at any book in a series.

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Preview of the Bonus Level Reading Quest printable

Free printable: the Reading Quest

A one-page reading tracker that works like a game. Read, color a block, clear a level. Print it, stick it on the fridge, done.

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