Contemporary Issues and a New Role for Early Chapter Books

I’ve heard them called any number of things. Junior chapter books. Young readers. Early chapter books. Just plain old “chapter books”. They’re the transitional readers you hand a child when they’ve graduated from easy books but aren’t ready yet for, say, Harry Potter. And like any book, they have a wide range of reading levels. Generally speaking, they’re primarily associated with series. Your A to Z Mysteries, say. Or Magic Treehouse. Or Dyamonde Daniel. What one doesn’t immediately think of...