Books & Quizzes Blog

15 Children’s Books Featuring Disabled Characters

By Kerry McGuire

For this month’s booklist, our team of Quiz Writers have picked 15 of their favourite titles featuring characters with physical disabilities or sensory impairments. Each of these titles has an Accelerated Reader quiz. Lower Years Proud to be Deaf: Discover my community and my language by Ava, Lilli and Nick Beese, illustrated by Romina Martí […]

10 Children’s Books Celebrating LGBTQ+ Families

By Kerry McGuire

In our latest Accelerated Reader booklist, our team of quiz writers have highlighted 10 children’s and young adult titles in which the main character has a family member from the LGBTQIA+ community. Check out the titles and their quiz information here! Lower Years Heather Has Two Mummies by Lesléa Newman, illustrated by Laura Cornell Quiz […]

What Kids are Reading Quiz Writers’ Choice Awards: The Shortlist

By Krista Culbertson

The shortlist for the What Kids Are Reading Quiz Writers’ Choice Awards is finally here! What Kids Are Reading is the largest annual study of the reading habits and trends of students across the UK and Ireland, using data from a variety of sources including Renaissance Accelerated Reader data. Accelerated Reader is a reading practice […]

What Kids are Reading Quiz Writers’ Choice Awards: The Longlist

By Lee Burkwood

What Kids Are Reading is the largest annual study of the reading habits and trends of students across the UK and Ireland, using data from a variety of sources including Renaissance Accelerated Reader data. Accelerated Reader is a reading practice programme allowing students to take comprehension quizzes on books they’ve read. Last year, we added […]

10 Brilliant Books Featuring Autistic Characters

By Kerry McGuire

Happy World Autism Awareness Week! Take a look at 10 children’s books featuring autistic characters, along with their Accelerated Reader quiz information. Lower Years A Friend For Henry by Jenn Bailey Quiz # 240000 | BL 2.4 | Chronicle Books Henry would like to find a friend at school, but finds making friends difficult. His efforts […]

Quiz Writers’ Highlights from 2020

By Lee Burkwood

As 2020 draws to a close, we asked the quiz writers to choose some of their favourite books they’ve quizzed this year!

Earth Day’s 50th Anniversary

By Lee Burkwood

It’s Earth Day’s 50th anniversary! In this blog, Lee shares some some great fiction and non-fiction titles that are sure to get kids exploring issues around climate change and the Earth.

Business (not quite) as usual in the Content Team

By Ruth Atkinson

In these unprecedented times of COVID-19 and working from home, we have had to make some changes to our quiz writing process. Cecelia, our Managing Editor, shares the details in this blog post.

Renaissance goes back to school!

By Ruth Atkinson

With kids across the country starting or returning to school this week, here at Renaissance we thought we’d take a look back at some of the books we loved as children – and dig up our old school photos!

1 2 3 11

Quick Links


Monthly Quiz List

Each month, we publish a list of the new AR quizzes released in the previous month.

May 2021

Previous months


Subscribe to monthly newsletter


Partners & Special Offers

We work with carefully selected partners who share our mission of accelerating learning for all and provide services that complement our programmes.

Special offer!

Logo for Scotia Books

Favourites from Twitter
https://www.renlearn.co.uk/category/books-and-quizzes/
www.renlearn.co.uk
crawl=CC-MAIN-2021-25
59223
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:Q6DNFQJLH4YZKAVAYKTWBBOMQJVNSZDP
<urn:uuid:7e3866de-3141-430b-ab43-f1888afd19bd>
2021-06-18T06:45:39Z
141.193.213.21
text/html
sha1:H5H3CN4W6SJAEL6JOOI6P3CTVBBLSDX7
<urn:uuid:674e0fe0-673b-406b-81ff-7aeafacb95d4>
https://www.renlearn.co.uk/category/books-and-quizzes/
response
<urn:uuid:fe3fe83e-908c-4668-b1f2-68d1f729be56>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-25
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for June 2021
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-232.ec2.internal
software: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/