I posted this information on Facebook during a discussion in the Reading in Black group, but I should share it with you all.

My sister is a middle school science teacher, so she filled me in on this and HIGHLY recommended that you authors who are writing children, teen or YA books submit your books, or have the teachers who are using your books in the classroom request that your books have quizzes developed and added to the Accelerated Reading Program AND Scholastic Reading Inventory.

School libraries specifically order books from these lists for the students' Language Arts classes. A student MUST select books from one of these two lists (depending on which one the school uses). Also, just so you know, the schools buy the quizzes from these companies, so they order the books that match the quizzes.

There is a huge push on literacy and language arts, to the point of ridiculousness when they want science teachers to incorporate language arts into the science classroom to the point where it interferes with teaching science and the language of science. (Don't get me started!)

So, let me encourage you to work on getting your books into these two systems so you can (hopefully) start getting some sales into school libraries and classrooms.

AR - http://www.renaissance.com/customer-center/suggest-quizzes or to contact them directly - http://www.renaissance.com/Contact-Us

SRI - http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/independent_reading/scholastic_reading_counts/community/suggest_quiz.asp

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