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Want to help more kids enjoy reading? Offer an easy-to-read format proven to enhance decoding, tracking, and fluency: youth large print. With fewer words per page, kids can turn pages faster, increasing feelings of accomplishment and reducing anxiety.

All Thorndike Press youth large print books are unabridged, similar in size and weight to the standard editions, have the same cover art and illustrations, and have a 100% guarantee on binding. An inviting back-cover synopsis intrigues readers and the words “Large Print” are never on the outside.

We’re committed to providing a diverse selection of highly acclaimed, award-winning titles for ages 8 and up, including books in Spanish! Our catalog of over 1,200 titles grows monthly to advance literacy and get kids smiling.

 

 

Featured YA Titles

 
A Wrinkle in Time
A Wrinkle in Time (Cloth)
L'Engle, Madeleine
This classic New York Times Bestseller & Newbery Medal Award-winner is coming to the big screen March 2018. Engage non-readers with this story of adventure through space and time. Meg Murry, her brother Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe (the most popular boy in school!) search to find Meg's missing father, a scientist who disappeared while working on a top secret government project.
  • ISBN: 9781410499202
  • Category: Juvenile
  • Publisher: Thorndike Press
  • Available: Now
A Wrinkle in Time
A Wrinkle in Time (Paper)
L'Engle, Madeleine
  • ISBN: 9781432850333
  • Category: Juvenile
  • Publisher: Thorndike Press
  • Available: Now
Bud, Not Buddy
Bud, Not Buddy (Paper)
Curtis, Christopher Paul
  • ISBN: 9781432850463
  • Category: Juvenile
  • Publisher: Thorndike Press
  • Available: Now
Bud, Not Buddy
Bud, Not Buddy (Cloth)
Curtis, Christopher Paul
The Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award-winning classic about a boy who decides to hit the road to find his father—from Christopher Paul Curtis, author of The Watsons Go To Birmingham—1963, a Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree.
  • ISBN: 9781432838461
  • Category: Juvenile
  • Publisher: Thorndike Press
  • Available: Now
Hello Universe
Hello Universe (Cloth)
Kelly, Erin Entrada
  • ISBN: 9781432860356
  • Category: Juvenile
  • Publisher: Thorndike Press
  • Available: Now
Holes
Holes (Cloth)
Sachar, Louis
Winner of the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award! This number 1?New York Times?bestselling, modern classic in which boys are forced to dig holes day in and day out is now available with a splashy new look.
  • ISBN: 9781432841867
  • Category: Juvenile
  • Publisher: Thorndike Press
  • Available: Now
Island Of The Blue Dolphins
Island Of The Blue Dolphins (Paper)
O'Dell, Scott/ Lewin, Ted (ILT)
Far off the coast of California looms a harsh rock known as the island of San Nicholas. Dolphins flash in the blue waters around it, sea otter play in the vast kep beds, and sea elephants loll on the stony beaches.
  • ISBN: 9780786272549
  • Category: Juvenile
  • Publisher: Thorndike Press
  • Available: Now
Johnny Tremain
Johnny Tremain (Paper)
Forbes, Esther/ McCurdy, Michael (ILT)
Johnny Tremain, winner of the 1944 Newbery Medal, is one of the finest historical novels ever written for children.
  • ISBN: 9780786271788
  • Category: Adult
  • Publisher: Thorndike Press
  • Available: Now
Merci Suárez Changes Gears
Merci Suárez Changes Gears (Cloth)
Medina, Meg
  • ISBN: 9781432860363
  • Category: Juvenile
  • Publisher: Thorndike Press
  • Available: Now
Number the Stars
Number the Stars (Cloth)
Lowry, Lois
  • ISBN: 9781432860844
  • Category: Juvenile
  • Publisher: Thorndike Press
  • Available: Now
Number the Stars
Number the Stars (Paper)
Lowry, Lois
  • ISBN: 9781432863937
  • Category: Juvenile
  • Publisher: Thorndike Press
  • Available: Now
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Paper)
Taylor, Mildred D./ Woodson, Jacqueline (INT)
  • ISBN: 9781432850272
  • Category: Juvenile
  • Publisher: Thorndike Press
  • Available: Now
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Cloth)
Taylor, Mildred D./ Woodson, Jacqueline (INT)
Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, this is the story of one family's struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and independence in the face of racism and social injustice. It is also the story of an important year of discovery in the life of young Cassie Logan.
  • ISBN: 9781432849252
  • Category: Juvenile
  • Publisher: Thorndike Press
  • Available: Now
The Crossover
The Crossover (Cloth)
Alexander, Kwame
"The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I'm delivering," announces dread-locked, 12-year old Josh. He and twin brother Jordan are awesome on the court. Josh has basketball in his blood, but he's got mad beats, too, that tell his family's story in verse.
  • ISBN: 9781432849801
  • Category: Juvenile
  • Publisher: Thorndike Press
  • Available: Now
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
The Girl Who Drank the Moon (Cloth)
Barnhill, Kelly
Winner of the 2017 Newbery Medal. The New York Times Bestseller. Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the Forest, Xan, is kind. She shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon. Xan rescues the children and delivers them to welcoming families on the other side of the forest, nourishing the babies with starlight on the journey.
  • ISBN: 9781432840938
  • Category: Juvenile
  • Publisher: Thorndike Press
  • Available: Now
The Giver
The Giver (Paper)
Lowry, Lois
The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time.
  • ISBN: 9780786271535
  • Category: Juvenile
  • Publisher: Thorndike Press
  • Available: Now
The Graveyard Book
The Graveyard Book (Cloth)
Gaiman, Neil/ McKean, Dave (ILT)
The Graveyard Book?by Neil Gaiman, which has sold more than one million copies and is the only novel to win both the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal.
  • ISBN: 9781410414410
  • Category: Juvenile
  • Publisher: Thorndike Press
  • Available: Now
The One and Only Ivan
The One and Only Ivan (Cloth)
Applegate, Katherine
  • ISBN: 9781432860400
  • Category: Juvenile
  • Publisher: Thorndike Press
  • Available: Now
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread (Cloth)
DiCamillo, Kate/ Ering, Timothy Basil (ILT)
  • ISBN: 9781432860394
  • Category: Juvenile
  • Publisher: Thorndike Press
  • Available: Now
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread (Paper)
DiCamillo, Kate
  • ISBN: 9781432864057
  • Category: Juvenile
  • Publisher: Thorndike Press
  • Available: Now
Walk Two Moons
Walk Two Moons (Paper)
Creech, Sharon
  • ISBN: 9781432864040
  • Category: Juvenile
  • Publisher: Thorndike Press
  • Available: Now
Walk Two Moons
Walk Two Moons (Cloth)
Creech, Sharon
  • ISBN: 9781432860370
  • Category: Juvenile
  • Publisher: Thorndike Press
  • Available: Now
 
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