Accelerated Reader UK & Ireland

Our 2025 What Kids Are Reading report reveals that books by Marcus Rashford, Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara and Matt Oldfield - featuring diverse heroes and real-life role models - are inspiring a new generation of readers. 🔗 Download the full report: bit.ly/43Kxuby…

"Whether it’s football, gaming, or music, tapping into a child’s passions can make reading feel relevant and enjoyable.” @DanFreedman99 struggled with reading as a young boy but now, he’s the bestselling author of the Jamie Johnson series and Unstoppable! Over on the blog, Dan…

How many words did your students read this year? 📚📚 We’d love to celebrate their reading achievements with you! Share your Accelerated Reader numbers with us and we’ll repost them. If you need help finding your school’s achievements, create your reading snapshot using the…

Did you know we quizzed 88 books last month? That’s 88 new books for you and your students to check out over the summer! And if you’re reading something we don’t have a quiz for yet, you can request one here: bit.ly/3U06os1

Only 35% of children aged 8-18 enjoy reading in their free time. (@Literacy_Trust) But at @RedhillTrust, that number soars to 68% among Year 7 students! Whether it’s actively celebrating reading achievements or listening to students and acting on their feedback, Redhill…

It’s the Women’s Euro Final this weekend! ⚽ To celebrate, we’ve curated a list of fiction and non-fiction books exploring the history of women’s football and stories around it. Encourage your students to find out more about this sport with our five fantastic football picks…

Puloma ran away from her unkind aunt to join the circus but she couldn’t understand why the other circus workers were worried about the police finding them! 🎪 Until she meets Nyla, the dancing sloth bear: the circus’s star act (which is also illegal).🐻 Puloma and the Bear by…

New @PCPPenguins Reading Champions celebrated Word Millionaires today! Well done Joshua and James N - and Kavi who became a double WM! 😍 #pcpreading @AccReader

Are your students fascinated with dinosaurs? Or perhaps they’re really interested in the T-Rex, the most ferocious dinosaur we’ve heard of! 🦖 @LauraMurrayBook’s Tyrannosaurus Rex explores its life, what it looked like, its food and how it stayed safe while making fossils and…

End of term’s almost here and we’d like to wish you a lovely, restful and restorative break ahead! 😊 We hope you have a lovely summer full of amazing reads and stories! 📚 And if you’d like to find a book to read, here you go: bit.ly/45iZ6VH

Smashing it⭐️👏 Congratulations everyone !

"...help pupils build confidence in their storytelling abilities…” Author & former primary school teacher @mattbeighton shares five strategies to promote creative writing and literacy among students. Whether it’s making it feel like a game or incorporating non-traditional…

Our #BookOfTheWeek is a speculative YA mystery that follows Sariyah, who knows what people need even before they know it themselves. Deja, her friend has gone missing. Things get worse with her mum losing her job and her brother’s health complications. Now she’s hustling her…

📦 Has your school received its Accelerated Reader Success Kit yet? We’d love to see it in action! 📚 Share a photo below or tag us @AcceleratedReader — we’d love to share it!

A fun afternoon at The Royal Society where Boy Like Me won the secondary fiction category at the ‘What Kids are Reading’ awards. Fascinating insights into what kids are actually reading too! Thanks @AccReader 😀

🏆Quiz Writers' Choice Awards 2025 winners! 🏆 And the winner of the Best Series category is ‘Bizarre Behaviour’ by Shalini Vallepur. 🥳 Congratulations! @BooklifePubLtd #WKAR25

🏆 Quiz Writers' Choice Awards 2025 winners! 🏆 The winner of the Best Debut category is ‘Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star’ by @lauranoakes. 👏 @HarperCollinsCh #WKAR25

🏆 Quiz Writers' Choice Awards 2025 winners! 🏆 And the winner of the Secondary Non-Fiction category is ‘Welcome to St Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure’ by @LewisHancox! 🤩 @Scholastic #WKAR25

🏆 Quiz Writers' Choice Awards 2025 winners! 🏆 The winner of the Primary Non-Fiction category is ‘Lands of Belonging: A History of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Britain’. Congratulations, Donna Bhatt and @MisterBhatt! 🙌 @NosyCrow #WKAR25