Chapter Books about Dyslexia for Kids

Inspired by the true life experiences of Henry Winkler, whose undiagnosed dyslexia made him a classic childhood underachiever, the Hank Zipzer series is about the high-spirited and funny adventures of a boy with learning differences. 

It's science project time in Ms. Adolf's class. This is good news and bad news for Hank-he loves science, but he hates the report part.

So Hank turns to TV to take his mind off things. But when the program directory scrolls by too quickly for Hank to know what's on, he decides to take apart the cable box to try to slow down the crawl. Great!

Now Hank has found the perfect science project! But what he wasn't counting on was his sister's pet iguana laying eighteen eggs in the disassembled cable box. How is Hank going to get out of this one?

A New York Times Bestseller!

The author of the beloved One for the Murphys gives readers an emotionally-charged, uplifting novel that will speak to anyone who’s ever thought there was something wrong with them because they didn’t fit in.

Meet Zoe – a young girl with dyslexia. Zoe invites readers to learn about dyslexia from her perspective.

She helps readers to understand the challenges faced by a child with dyslexia, explaining what dyslexia is and how it affects her at home and at school.

Zoe describes exactly why she finds reading, writing and words so difficult, and how other people can help her in these areas.

A highly comic tale in the best Dahl tradition of craziness, written for the benefit of the Dyslexia Institute.

The Reverend Lee is suffering from a rare and acutely embarrassing condition: Back-to-Front Dyslexia. It affects only his speech, and he doesn’t realize he’s doing it, but the parishioners of Nibbleswicke are shocked and confused by seemingly outrageous comments.

At last a cure is found and the mild-mannered vicar can resume normal service. Or at least as normal as is possible for a man who must walk backwards to be sure of taking forwards!

Based on the author’s personal experience as a dyslexic, this novel is drawn from real insight.

This outstanding book for children is the sensitive portrayal of a boy who struggles to hide his dyslexia from his friends. 

Sam has made it most of the way through sixth grade, barely able to read and write, but now Sam’s family have moved again and he is faced with the prospect of attending a new school.

How long will he be able to keep his problem secret?

Fefa struggles with words. She has word blindness, or dyslexia, and the doctor says she will never read or write. Every time she tries, the letters jumble and spill off the page, leaping away like bullfrogs. How will she ever understand them?

But her mother has an idea. She gives Fefa a blank book filled with clean white pages. “Think of it as a garden,” she says. Soon Fefa starts to sprinkle words across the pages of her wild book.

She lets her words sprout like seedlings, shaky at first, then growing stronger and surer with each new day. And when her family is threatened, it is what Fefa has learned from her wild book that saves them.

Hank is a kid who doesn’t try to be funny, but he somehow always makes the kids in his class laugh. He’s pretty bad at memorizing stuff, and spelling is his worst subject. (But so are math and reading!)

In the first book in this new series, Hank’s class is putting on a play, and Hank wants the lead part: Aqua Fly. But he freezes in his audition and can only buzz like a fly. His teacher creates a special part for Hank, a silent bookmark.

This may seem like an insignificant role, but when his enemy, Nick McKelty, freezes during the performance, it’s up to Hank to save the play!

Knees shows the ups and downs of life with dyslexia.

This book is in the style and size of a chapter book so that younger children and older children at low reading levels can read what seems to be an older child’s book.

Fifth grader Josh Grant dreads the first day of school. As his older brother reminds him, he’s a “learning disabled dummy!”

In this fast-paced adventure story, Caroline Janover takes us into the heart and mind of a boy with dyslexia as he cleverly compensates for his learning difficulties and wins the admiration of his family and friends.