Short Books, Complex Themes
Under 30,000 words but tackling deeper subjects — ideal for readers with ADHD or those who need shorter page counts without simpler content.
421 books
Arcade
Diana G. Gallagher
Boating
Adam G. Klein
Breakout!
Jerry B. Jenkins
Camping
Julie K. Lundgren
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
Death
Gail Stewart
Gangs
Gail Stewart
In the eye of the storm
Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
Knockabeg
Mary E. Lyons
Simone Biles
Anthony K. Hewson
Super Fly
Todd H. Doodler
Surviving the Ice
Kristin J. Russo
The War At Home
Mary Turck
The cat with the yellow star
Susan Goldman Rubin
The vanishings
Jerry B. Jenkins
Virginia Hall
Samantha Feriolla Chow
Anorexia
Gail B. Stewart
Camping
Adam G. Klein
Child abuse
Gail Stewart
Civil War Is Coming
Christi E. Parker
Dread Mountain
Emily Rodda
Escape to Masada
Jerry B. Jenkins
Kill Joy
Holly Jackson
Letters from a Slave Girl
Mary E. Lyons
Lost on a Mountain
Meish Goldish
Malala Yousafzai
Heather E. Schwartz
Murder in the holy place
Jerry B. Jenkins
Orion
Amy B. Rogers
Selena Gomez
Heather E. Schwartz
Teen mothers
Gail Stewart
Teenage Refugees from Nicaragua Speak Out
K. Melissa Cerar
The three musketeers
Alexandre Dumas
Unbound
Ann E. Burg
Voices of the Civil War
Jason D. Nemeth
War of the dragon
Jerry B. Jenkins
Whistle me home
Barbara Wersba
Wings
Sneed B. Collard
Wishbone Classic #03 Romeo and Juliet (Wishbone Classics)
William Shakespeare
Beauty is a beast
Jane B. Mason
Lost at sea.
Kate William
Prince William
Tamara L. Britton
Ramona and her father
Beverly Cleary
Rica's Summer (Not Just Proms & Parties)
Patricia G. Penny
Robert E. Lee
Candice F. Ransom
Sophie Scholl
Salima Alikhan
Teens in prison
Gail Stewart
The Oregon Trail
Laura K. Murray
The Web
Peter F. Hamilton
The beast arises
Jerry B. Jenkins
Under the waves
John Woodward
War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells
When a friend dies
Marilyn E. Gootman
Worlds afire
Paul B. Janeczko
Air
Ian Graham
Chocolate
Samuel G. Woods
Classic Starts
Chris Sasaki
Dead Men Kill
L. Ron Hubbard
Donald Trump
Tamara L. Britton
Frederick Douglass
George Edward Stanley
Heroin and Its Dangers
Susan E. Hamen
Hunting the Hunter
Gordon Korman
Man in the iron mask
Raymond H. Harris
Prince William
Elaine Landau
Shep
Sneed B. Collard
Sounder
William H. Armstrong
Taylor Swift
Heather E. Schwartz
The Salem witch trials
Edward F. Dolan
The man in the iron mask
Thomas, Roy
The wind in the willows
Kenneth Grahame
Treasures in the dust
Tracey Porter
Trueno
William H. Armstrong
Unforgettable Catastrophes
Unknown
Camping
Julie K. Lundgren
Dark Destiny
Greg Farshtey
De Cara al Fuego / Facing the Future (Serie Dejados Atras: Los Chicos - Left Behind Series: The Kids, #4)
Jerry B. Jenkins
Eagles
E. Melanie Watt
Flooded
Ann E. Burg
Healthcare Heroes
Rachael L. Thomas
Left behind
Jerry B. Jenkins
Lilies of the Field
William E Barrett
Little Match Girl Strikes Back
Emma Carroll
Marie Antoinette
Heather Schwartz
Mars diaries
Sigmund Brouwer
Oklahoma
Patricia K. Kummer
Opioids and Their Dangers
Susan E. Hamen
Rise of the Black Lives Matter Movement
Samantha S. Bell
The little riders
Margaretha Shemin
The red badge of courage
Stephen Crane
Vietnam War Technology
Laura K Murray
What Was the Hindenburg?
Janet B. Pascal
World War I
Thomas K Adamson
Apollo 13
Michael D. Cole
Chicago
Tamra B. Orr
Forced Removal
Heather E. Schwartz
Heredity
Dennis B. Fradin
Illegal immigrants
Gail Stewart
John Adams
Stuart A. Kallen
Tales from Shakespeare
Marcia Williams
The Oregon Trail
Elizabeth Dana Jaffe
The executioner's daughter
Laura E. Williams
The invisible man
H. G. Wells
Todo Lo Que Necesitas Saber Sobre La Paternidad Adolescente (Todo Lo Que Necesitas Saber)
Eleanor H. Ayer
Todo Lo Que Necesitas Saber Sobre Las Enfermedades De Transmisi-N Sexual (Todo Lo Que Necesitas Saber / Need to Know (Spanish))
Samuel G. Woods
Wetlands
Emilie U. Lepthien
What Was the Great Depression?
Janet B. Pascal, Who HQ
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Janet B. Pascal
World War II
Thomas K. Adamson
Carlsbad Caverns
Perfection Learning Corporation
Days of Courage
Richard Kelso
Grand Canyon
Linda Vieira
Lost & found
Shaun Tan
Pearl Harbor
Tamara L. Britton
The elderly
Gail Stewart
Unlocked
Ryan G. Van Cleave
World War Two
Thomas K. Adamson
12 questions about the Indian Removal Act
Tracey E. Dils
Arizona
Thomas K. Adamson
Everest
Sandra K. Athans
George W. Bush
Jill C. Wheeler
George Washington
Stuart A. Kallen
Hurricane Katrina and the Flooding of New Orleans
Mary K. Pratt
King Arthur
Jane B. Mason
Little Rock Nine (Stories of the Civil Rights Movement)
Carla Mooney
Sour Land (Harper Trophy Books)
William H. Armstrong
The kidnapped prince
Ann Cameron
The story of the Little Bighorn
R. Conrad Stein
Tsunamis
Daniel E Harmon
Understanding Issues - Terrorism (Understanding Issues)
Gail B. 1949 Stewart, Gail B. Stewart
What Is the Civil Rights Movement?
Sherri L. Smith
A Little Tiger in the Chinese Night
Song Nan Zhang
Battle Zone
Thomas Kingsley Troupe
Birds of Paradise
Irena Hoare
Deadly Mine
Kevin Blake
Feed the Children First
Mary E. Lyons
Little Mermaid and other stories
Victoria Parker
The Glass Mountain: Tales from Poland
David Walser
The Little Rock nine
Brian Krumm
The hunchback of Notre Dame
Victor Hugo
#NeverAgain
Rachael L. Thomas
Cancer
Dennis B. Fradin
Force of Nature
Ann E. Burg
Ida Wells
Nicole K. Orr
Little green
Chun Yu
Los Primeros Cuatro Anos/the First Four Years (Little House Books)
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Miss Crandall's School for Young Ladies & Little Misses of Color
Elizabeth Alexander
Prince William
Kristin McCracken
Slavery in America
Jean F. Blashfield
The story of the Little Rock Nine and school desegregation in photographs
David Aretha
The war of the worlds
Eric S. Brown
What's racism?
Amy B. Rogers
Wild horses
John Bonnett Wexo
All frontiers are jealous
L. Ron Hubbard
Antibiotics
Tamra Orr
H is for hush
Anita C. Prieto
Lawman
Calvin Sims
Liberation
Tito, E. Tina
Malcolm X
Amy B. Rogers
Simone Biles
Heather E. Schwartz
Taylor Swift
Heather E. Schwartz
The Battle of Little Bighorn (Kaleidoscope)
Edward F. Dolan
The Cree of North America (First Peoples)
Deborah Robinson
The Other America - People With Mental Illness (The Other America)
Gail B. Stewart
The house of dead maids
Clare B. Dunkle
Challenger
Michael D. Cole
Flying Ace
Jim Eldridge
Forecasting
Perfection Learning Corporation
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Gulliver's travels
Jonathan Swift
In the ghettos
Eleanor H. Ayer
March on Washington
Heather E. Schwartz
Marilyn Monroe
Katherine E. Krohn
Sleeping Beauty
Mahlon F. Craft
The Iron Duke
L. Ron Hubbard
The terrible Axe-Man of New Orleans
Rick Geary
White Fang
Jack London
Everything you need to know when someone you know has been killed
Jay Schleifer
It's okay to say no
Eleanor H. Ayer
Mary Mehan awake
Jennifer L. Armstrong
People with AIDS
Gail Stewart
See How They Run
Susan Goodman
The Columbia space shuttle disaster
Michael D. Cole
The Little Rock Nine
Jake Miller
Executions and sacrifices
Heather Moore Niver
Oceans
Heather C. Hudak
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Lemony Snicket
Fire birds
Sneed B. Collard
Food
Peter D. Riley
John McCain
Heather E. Schwartz
Lost and found
John Malam
Pearl Harbor Warriors
Dorinda Makanaonalani Stagner Nicholson
Slavery at Mount Vernon
Janey Levy
The Battle of Little Bighorn (Events That Shaped America)
MaryLee Knowlton, Michael V. Uschan
The dragon prince
Vicki Blum
The good fight
Anne Quirk
World War II
Mary Pope Osborne
Drugs and the pressure to be perfect
Michael B. Langer
Everything you need to know about drug abuse
Arthur Herscovitch
Little Crow: Taoyateduta
Gwenyth Swain
Shawnee captive
Mary R. Furbee
Ski soldier
Louise Borden
The Diary of Mary Jemison (In My Own Words)
Mary Jemison
The war of the worlds
Malvina G. Vogel
Trapped Behind Nazi Lines
Eric Braun
Tuskegee Airmen
Sarah E. De Capua
A slave family
Bobbie Kalman
Australia
Heather C. Hudak
Democratic Nominee TBD
Heather E. Schwartz
Greenland
Jean F. Blashfield
Pope John Paul II
George Edward Stanley
Racism and intolerance
Charles E. Pederson
She Said Yes
Misty Bernall
Sports great Magic Johnson
James Haskins
The hand
Guy de Maupassant
Unsinkable!
Michael D. Cole
A is for anaconda
Anthony D. Fredericks
Gandhi
Philip Wilkinson
Romeo y Julieta
William Shakespeare
Sir Walter Raleigh
Nancy Ward
The Tuskegee airmen
Sarah De Capua
Vanished
Marc Tyler Nobleman
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Bruce Coville
Batman
Matthew K. Manning
Crazy Horse and Custer
S. D. Nelson
Italy
King, David C.
Mary Tudor Bloody Mary
Gretchen Maurer
Missouri
Jean F. Blashfield
Two tickets to freedom
Florence B. Freedman
Vlad the Impaler
John M Shea
Compulsive eating
Christie Ward
Famous players
Rick Geary
I Found a Dead Bird
Jan Thornhill
Little Bighorn, June 25, 1876
Brendan January
The Buffalo Soldiers
Alice K. Flanagan
The Salem witchcraft trials in American history
David K. Fremon
Times Square
Ann E. Burg
Wyatt Earp
Michael E. Goodman
Billy the Kid
Daniel E. Harmon
Kin
Carole Boston Weatherford
Letters from a World War II G.I.
Keith Winston
Light
Gina L. Hamilton
Little Rock
Laurie O'Neil
Little Rock girl 1957
Shelley Tougas
Steroids
Scott E. Lukas
The Battle of Lexington and Concord
Lewis K. Parker
A is for airplane
Mary Ann McCabe Riehle
Asylum for Nightface
Bruce Brooks
Dust devils
Robert Laxalt
Remember Little Bighorn
Paul Robert Walker
The Battle of the Little Bighorn
Steve Thenuissen
Torture
Charles E. Pederson
Trolls
Gail B. Stewart
Birds of prey
Sneed B. Collard
E is for empire
Ann E. Burg
George Washington
Wim Coleman
Italy
Jean F. Blashfield
Nearer My Freedom
Monica Edinger
The Battle of the Little Bighorn in American history
Nancy Warren Ferrell
The L.A. riots
Michael D. Cole
When Children Play
Gina McMurchy-Barber
Abraham & Mary Todd Lincoln
Ruth Ashby
Causes and effects of the American Civil War
G. O'Muhr
Habitat Destruction
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Japanese-American internment in American history
David K. Fremon
Space Launch Disaster
Michael D. Cole
Apollo 1 Tragedy
Paul Brubaker
Australia
Jean F. Blashfield
Billy the Kid
Roger Bruns
Dust to eat
Michael L. Cooper
George Washington
Jack E. Levin
History's Villains - Saddam Hussein (History's Villains)
Steve Otfinoski
Indian school
Michael L. Cooper
Michael Jackson
Mary K. Pratt
Refugee Crisis
Michael E. Goodman
Robert E. Lee
Marian G. Cannon
Suicide Wise
Nicole B. Sperekas
The Jim Crow Laws and Racism in American History
David K. Fremon
Years of dust
Albert Marrin
Alaska
Tamra B. Orr
Benito Mussolini
Jeremy Roberts
Drew Barrymore
Hill, Anne E.
Ecstasy
Tamra Orr
Fighting Forces of World War II in the Air
John C. Miles
Fighting for Reproductive Justice
Ngeri Nnachi
George Armstrong Custer
Paul Christopher Anderson
Little Rock Nine
Stephanie Fitzgerald
Oklahoma
Tamra Orr
The Battle of the Little Bighorn (Essential Events Set 2)
Marty Gitlin
The duel
Judith St George
The siege at Waco
Michael D. Cole
Tim Allen
John F. Wukovits
George Washington
Sari Earl
In the wild
Sneed B. Collard
Red Madness
Gail Jarrow
The Soldier's Friend
Ray E. Boomhower
The faithful spy
John Hendrix
The joy of creation
Sandra H. Shichtman
1776
K. M. Kostyal
Cowboys
David Murdoch
Driven from the land
Milton Meltzer
TWA flight 800
Michael D. Cole
The Battle of the Little Bighorn
Michael V. Uschan
The Mystery of Mary Rogers (Treasury of Victorian Murder (Graphic Novels))
Rick Geary
The trial of gangster Al Capone
Karen L. Trespacz
Venus
Michael D. Cole
Fighting Forces of World War II at Sea
John C. Miles
Remember Little Rock
Paul Robert Walker
Slaves to Soldiers
Wallace B. Black
Storm warning
Jonathan D. Kahl
The Dust Bowl
Sue Vander Hook
The Renaissance
Gail Stewart
W.E.B. Du Bois
Mark Rowh
Conquistadors
Susan Nichols
Crack and Your Circulatory System
Claudia Manley
Immigration and Refugees
Heather C. Hudak
Joshua Chamberlain and the American Civil War
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
North Star to Freedom
Gena Kinton Gorrell
Oklahoma
Tamra B. Orr
Pearl Harbor
Richard Tames
Pearl Harbor
Susan E. Hamen
Political profiles
Jeff C. Young
Warfare in the 20th Century (Warriors)
Andrew Robertshaw
Bruce Lee
Jon E. Lewis
Harriet Tubman, secret agent
Thomas B. Allen
Saratoga
King, David C.
The Dallas Cowboys
John F. Grabowski
A firestorm unleashed
Eleanor H. Ayer
Assisted suicide
Mark D. Friedman
Everything You Need to Know About Custody
Claudia B. Manley
Sterling Biographies: Frederick Douglass
Frances E. Ruffin
Teen fathers
Lang, Paul
The dust bowl and the Depression in American history
Debra McArthur
World War I
Gail Stewart
Everything you need to know about teens who kill
Jeffrey A. Margolis
In the Days of the Salem Witchcraft Trials
Marilynne K. Roach
Inferno
Eleanor H. Ayer
John A. Macdonald
P. B. Waite
People in the News - Lance Armstrong (People in the News)
John F. Grabowski
R. L. Stine
Joel H. Cohen
The London transit system bombings
Gail Stewart
America's great disasters
Martin W. Sandler
Che Guevara
Stuart A. Kallen
Climate migrants
Rebecca E. Hirsch
Cuba (Discovering)
Roger E. Hernandez
Heroin and your veins
Allan B. Cobb
Hurricane force
Joseph B. Treaster
Lucent terrorism library.
Gail B. Stewart
Stonewall Riots
Gayle E Pitman
The Little Rock School Desegregation Crisis in American History (In American History)
Robert Somerlott
The Whydah
Martin W. Sandler
The first crusade
Susan Edgington
Adolf Hitler
Eleanor H. Ayer
Arizona
Jean F. Blashfield
Catastrophe in southern Asia
Gail B. Stewart
Hallucinogens
Daniel E. Harmon
Jackie Robinson and the integration of baseball
John F. Wukovits
Legalization of drugs
Mark D. Friedman
The American Civil War
Edward F. Dolan
Wyatt Earp
William L. Urban
George Clooney and the crisis in Darfur
Tamra Orr
Susan E. Hamen
I Came As a Stranger
Bryan Prince
Lexington and Concord
King, David C.
Mary Todd Lincoln
Mary Hull
The Civil Rights Movement Revisited
Patrick B. Miller, Therese Frey Steffen, Elisabeth Schäfer-Wünsche
Bleeding Kansas and the violent clash over slavery in the heartland
Jeff C. Young
George Washington
Daniel C. Gedacht
Native American Chiefs & Warriors (History Makers)
Stuart A. Kallen
Robert Smalls
Robert Francis Kennedy
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
The capture and killing of Osama bin Laden
Marcia Amidon Lüsted
The rise & fall of Jim Crow
Richard Wormser
America in the Korean War
Edward F. Dolan
Christopher Reeve
Margaret L. Finn
Martin Luther King, Jr.
John F. Wukovits
When Johnny went marching
G. Clifton Wisler
Coping with schizophrenia
Evelyn B. Kelly
Overview Series - Police Brutality (Overview Series)
Gail Stewart
Arson
Gail Stewart
Heroes & Villains - Saddam Hussein (Heroes & Villains)
Gail Stewart
Homeless or hopeless?
Margery G. Nichelason
New York
Paige Weber
Pioneers of LGBTQ+ Rights
Ellen McGrody
Speed and Your Brain
Allan B. Cobb
Teenagers and compulsive gambling
Edward F. Dolan
The D.c. Sniper Shootings (Crime Scene Investigations)
Craig E. Blohm
Understanding Lord of the flies
Andy Koopmans
Brazil
Harry Greenbaum
Causes of the Civil War
James F. Epperson
Domestic Terrorism
Laura K. Murray
Ukraine
Gail B. Stewart
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Naomi E. Jones
Kids who kill
Herma Silverstein
Australia
John F. Grabowski
The Union and the Civil War in American history
Mary Hull
The history of Henry IV, part 1
William Shakespeare
After the Holocaust (Holocaust (Austin, Tex.).)
Sean Sheehan
Biological and Chemical Weapons
Allan B. Cobb
Guns in the United States
Edward F. Dolan
Weapons of war
Gail Stewart
Civil rights, the long struggle
Eileen Lucas
Genocide
Linda Jacobs Altman
The Arab-Israeli conflict
Ivan Minnis
African American civil rights movement
World Book, Inc
Causes and consequences of the Vietnam war
David K. Wright
Cipollone v. Liggett Group
Diana K. Sergis
Defending the borders
Gail B. Stewart
SARS
Gail Stewart
The 1930s
Petra Press
The Spanish-American War
John F. Wukovits
Hurricane Katrina
Debra A. Miller
The Irish Americans
Karen Price Hossell
The Nazi Olympics
Susan D. Bachrach
Abortion
Nancy Day
Meningitis
John F. Grabowski
Modern Nations of the World - Israel (Modern Nations of the World)
Laurel Corona
The Great Society
Craig E. Blohm
Teen violence
David E. Newton
Women's Rights (Individual Freedom, Civic Responsibility)
Unknown
Gideon v. Wainwright and the right to counsel
Paul B. Wice
Responding to attack
James D. Torr
The Patriot Act
James D. Torr