Reading Level: 1.6 to 3.5 | Grades: YA | Lexile: HL230L to HL620L
The core Gravel Road® collection features edgy, contemporary YA fiction, with each standalone title tackling a real, complicated situation teens face today and written with emotional authenticity rather than genre conventions. A Sample Set is available for classrooms and libraries that want to preview the collection before purchasing individual titles.
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Gravel RoadGravel Road® features edgy, contemporary young adult fiction with realistic characters facing complex, emotionally authentic situations. Storylines explore topics such as foster care, suicide, bullying, sexual identity, family conflict, and more, giving striving readers mature, age-respectful stories that reflect challenges some teens experience in real life. Books are 116 to 124 pages. |
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Gravel Road RuralGravel Road® Rural brings the same hard-hitting, realistic storytelling to small-town and rural settings, giving students in rural communities characters and circumstances that reflect their own everyday reality, while still tackling the tough topics at the heart of the Gravel Road line. |
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Gravel Road VerseGravel Road® Verse tells its stories entirely in verse, giving striving readers a faster-moving, less text-dense way into the same honest, emotionally complex storytelling found throughout the Gravel Road collection. |
