Middle Grade March is a month-long reading challenge designed to help parents, teachers, and librarians motivate middle grade readers while building real-world skills through story. Centered around the Charms Book Series, this structured 31-day reading program for ages 8–14 combines engaging middle grade fiction with daily skill-building prompts that support literacy development, critical thinking, time management, teamwork, and confidence. Unlike traditional reading assignments, this challenge blends story-based learning with short, daily activities that make reading interactive, purposeful, and fun for tweens. It’s an ideal reading initiative for classrooms, libraries, homeschool programs, and families looking for books that kids actually enjoy while strengthening comprehension, problem-solving abilities, and lifelong learning habits. Middle Grade March supports educational goals, social-emotional growth, and STEM-related curiosity, making it a powerful reading motivation program for students in grades 4–8.
Story Quest Kit
Career Exploration + Life Skill Adventure in a Box
You want young readers to do more than check out a book. You want them to discover something, try something, build something and come back for more.
The Story Quest Kit gives libraries and organizations a complete, ready-to-use learning experience built around the Charms Book Series for girls ages 10–15.
Each kit combines 50 copies of one Charms book with discussion materials, hands-on activities, life-skill challenges, STEM exploration, games and career discovery — all packaged together and ready for your library to put into action.
Think book club in a box. Teacher in a box. Adventure in a box.
What's Inside a Story Quest Kit?
50 Books
Enough copies for classrooms, homeschool groups, youth organizations and book clubs to participate together.
Career Exploration
Activities connect the story and its skills to real careers, industries and possibilities young people may never have considered.
Story Extras
Recipes and interactive activities extend the adventure beyond the final chapter.
Vocabulary & Comprehension
Discussion guides, Word Quest vocabulary activities and practical challenges connect the story to skills young people can use right now.
Hands-On Learning
STEM challenges, projects and games get readers building, investigating, planning and solving.
Fun & Adventure
Because reading should always be an adventure that inspires readers to learn more, do more and experience more beyond the page.
4 Areas of Youth Development in 1 Experience!
STEM
Hands-on challenges encourage young readers to build, investigate, experiment, create and solve.
LIFE SKILLS
Stories and activities develop communication, planning, critical thinking, problem solving, decision making and leadership.
LITERACY
Reading, discussion, vocabulary and writing encourage young people to engage more deeply with what they’ve read.
CAREERS
Stories and activities introduce girls to careers, industries and possibilities they may never have encountered before.
Built for Libraries. Ready for Your Community.
Use the kit for your own youth programming or check the entire experience out to:
✔ Teachers & Classrooms
✔ Homeschool Families & Co-ops
✔ Book Clubs
✔ Churches & Youth Organizations
✔ Community Groups & Nonprofits
When they’re finished, the kit comes back and the next group begins. You provide access. We’ve built the experience.
Why Libraries?
Libraries are trusted community spaces where young people can discover ideas, explore interests and access opportunities regardless of the resources available at home or school.
You already have the relationships, families, educators, youth programming and community connections.
Story Quest gives you another tool to bring literacy, STEM, life skills and career exploration together — with a program that can travel beyond the library walls.
Seven Stories. Seven Skills. Seven Adventures.
Each Story Quest Kit is centered around a different Charms story and real-world skill.
BOOK 1: Rocket City Love
Life Skill: New Girl at School
BOOK 2: Tick Tock, Take Charge!
Life Skill: Time Management
BOOK 3: Where Clues Take Root
Life Skill: Project Management
BOOK 4: Blueprints & Buried Truths
Life Skill: Code Breaking
BOOK 5: Calculated Risks
Life Skill: Travel Planning & Budgeting
BOOK 6: Gravity of Choice
Life Skill: Business Pitch
BOOK 7: Legacy Protocol
Life Skill: Life Planning & Legacy
Three Ways to Fund Your Story Quest Kits
A Story Quest Kit is $1,000 and includes 50 books plus the curriculum, activities, projects, games and supporting materials. The complete seven-kit Story Quest collection is $7,000.
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Purchase Directly
Use programming, literacy, youth services or educational resource funds within your organization to purchase one kit or the complete collection.
2
Business Sponsorships
Invite a local business to fund a $1,000 Story Quest Kit. Bring seven community businesses together to fund the complete collection. Create a powerful show of local support for literacy, career exploration and future workforce development.
And you don’t have to start from scratch. With a signed MOU our team provides the tools, marketing materials, and develops the sponsor outreach list you need to identify and approach potential sponsors. We make it easy to bring your community together around Story Quest.
3
Foundation or Grant Funding
One Investment. Years of Adventure.
A Story Quest Kit doesn’t create a one-day event. It becomes a reusable community resource that can serve library programs, classrooms, homeschool groups, book clubs and youth organizations again and again.
Your library becomes the home base. Your community helps make it possible. And young readers get something much bigger than a box of books, they get the chance to read the story, build the skill and discover what’s possible.
Books That Build Skills: Stories change lives. Skills build futures.
Sponsors
Frequently Asked Questions
Does the library have to run the program itself?
A library can run its own program at the library, but the kit is meant to be made available to teachers, homeschool groups, book clubs and community organizations to check out for 30-day allotments for organizations to run their own program.
The entire kit can go out into the community, come back to the library and be used by the next group.
That allows the library to serve as the community home base for the program without requiring library staff to personally facilitate every Story Quest experience.
What is a Story Quest Kit?
Each kit includes 50 copies of one Charms book plus discussion materials, Word Quest vocabulary activities, life-skill worksheets, career exploration, hands-on projects, games and other story-based activities.
The program combines literacy, practical life skills, STEM exploration and early workforce development in a format libraries and organizations can put into action without developing a program from scratch.
Who is a Story Quest Kit designed for?
The stories and activities are designed to help readers strengthen literacy while developing practical skills, exploring careers and discovering connections between what they are learning now and what they may choose to do in the future.
Who can purchase a Story Quest Kit?
Story Quest Kits can be purchased by organizations that want to make the program available to young people in their community, including:
- Public libraries and library systems
- Schools and educators
- Homeschool organizations and co-ops
- Chambers of commerce
- Community and civic organizations
- Youth-serving nonprofits
- Churches and youth groups
- Businesses and corporate partners
- Foundations and philanthropic organizations
Organizations can purchase one Story Quest Kit for $1,000 or the complete seven-kit Story Quest collection for $7,000.
Can a library or organization purchase a Story Quest Kit of its own?
Once in place, the kit becomes a reusable learning resource. A library can use it for its own programming or make it available to teachers, homeschool groups, book clubs and community organizations.
Schools, homeschool organizations and other youth-serving organizations can use the kits and materials to hold their own Story Quest program at their location.
Can a Chamber of Commerce bring Story Quest Kits to its community?
A Chamber can purchase a Story Quest Kit for a local library, school or community organization, help identify businesses to sponsor individual kits, or coordinate a community effort to fund the complete seven-kit collection.
This gives Chambers an opportunity to connect local employers with young people before they enter the workforce — helping readers discover industries, careers and the practical skills that will matter later in life.
How does a Story Quest Kit support workforce development?
Throughout the Story Quest Kits, readers encounter skills such as communication, time management, project planning, preparation, problem solving, budgeting, decision making and leadership while exploring the careers and industries connected to the stories.
Story Quest Kits use the Charms Book Series as the doorway into those conversations, making career exploration approachable and relevant for middle grade and early teen readers.
How can our library or organization pay for a Story Quest Kit?
Your library, school or organization can purchase the program directly, seek foundation or grant funding, or invite local businesses and community partners to sponsor the program.
One Story Quest Kit is $1,000, making it possible to pair one community business with one kit. Seven partners can work together to bring the complete seven-kit Story Quest collection to a community.
1 BUSINESS = 1 KIT
7 COMMUNITY PARTNERS = THE COMPLETE COLLECTION
What if we want Story Quest Kits but don't have the funding?
Libraries, schools and organizations that want to bring Story Quest Kits to their community can receive our “How to Get a Sponsor Package” with materials designed to help you approach businesses, foundations and community partners for funding.
The package gives you the tools to explain Story Quest Kits, demonstrate its value to young people and your community, and make a clear funding request — so you aren’t starting from a blank page.
What's included in the How to Get a Sponsor Package?
The package is designed to give your organization the materials needed to begin its own local funding outreach.
Resources will include:
- Story Quest program overview
- Sponsorship flyers
- Email templates
- Materials explaining what a sponsorship funds
- Information to share with prospective community partner
The goal is simple: You know your community. We give you the tools to make the ask.
Can a local business sponsor a Story Quest Kit for a library or school?
Whenever possible, businesses can be connected with a Story Quest whose themes, careers or practical skills naturally relate to their industry. That helps turn sponsorship into a meaningful connection between local employers, young readers and future career possibilities.
Can we use a foundation or grant to fund a Story Quest Kit?
Because the program brings together literacy, STEM education, life skills, career exploration and early workforce development, it may align with several types of philanthropic funding.
Our How to Get a Sponsor Package provides program information you can use as you pursue potential funding opportunities.