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Dave is a 57 year old retired factory worker, who would like to get his GED. This is what he said about the Junkyard Dan series:

• “Interesting”
• “no big words”
• “I wish the story could go on forever.”
• “Story got my attention.”
• “Easy to read; easy to understand”
• “I've never even read a whole comic book in my life, but I read 2 of these books in 1 night!”

Brenda Kunau
ABE facilitator
Eastern Iowa Community College

Elise, I totally get your purpose of putting out cool books for to help struggling readers learn to read, but your books are more than that! Your books are a self esteem tool, a career advancement tool, an SLD tool, a Drop out prevention tool, and an intervention to gangs. Your books are more than just fun...they are a life raft for an alarming portion of the at risk kids that I am so passionate about reaching!!!! Every YMCA, after school program and community program needs your books!

Dr. Linda Hebert-Ford

The Junkyard Dan novels turned my students from resisters to readers. These engaging stories that are easy to read caught their attention and kept it.

Once one student read the first Junkyard Dan novel and moved onto the second, I had to buy extra sets because of the number of students asking to read them.

Boys who never wanted to read before were asking to take the books home so they could finish them.

Deven Black
Educator
Castle Hill Middle School
Bronx, NY