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.
Workforce
Development Sponsorship
Invest in the Readers Who Will Become Your Future Workforce
The future workforce starts long before the first résumé.
It starts when young people discover what they’re good at, learn how to solve problems, develop practical life skills and begin seeing careers they never knew existed.
A Story Quest sponsorship puts a complete, reusable book-based learning program into a library or community organization packed full with 50 books, hands-on STEM learning, and career exploration for tweens and teens ages 10–15.
Strengthen Your Community
Through stories, projects and career exploration, young readers build skills such as communication, time management, project planning, problem solving, budgeting, decision making and leadership while discovering the careers and industries where those skills can take them.
For companies committed to workforce development and education, Story Quest offers a tangible way to invest locally while helping prepare young people for the future and strengthening the libraries and educators already serving your community.
Your Sponsorship Will Be Seen
INSIDE EVERY BOOK
Your sponsorship is recognized inside all 50 books included in your sponsored kit.
EVERY WORKSHEET
Your company is recognized on the Story Quest worksheets and activity pages included with the kit, approximately 10–15 pages that can be copied and sent home with participating young people.
ON THE KIT
Sponsor recognition appears on the signage displayed with the physical kit at the library.
ON OUR SITE
Sponsors are recognized on the our homepage and Story Quest pages, creating visibility beyond the local library.
LIBRARY LAUNCH
Participating libraries can launch their Story Quest program in the community, giving sponsors another opportunity to be recognized as the businesses making the program possible.
SOCIAL MEDIA
Story Quest launches and participating sponsors are shared across our social channels, with sponsors tagged whenever possible.
YOUR NAME. YOUR COMMUNITY. YEARS OF VISIBILITY.
Create Years of Community Impact
$1,000
Sponsors 1 Kit
$7,000
Sponsors the FULL set of 7 kits
$10,000
Sponsors the FULL set of 7, In-person Author Talk, Press Event, Local Partnership Launch
Sponsor one kit. Fund several. Or become a Founding City Sponsor and bring the launch experience to your community.
For sponsorships above $1,000 please request ACH information for making your donation. The fees charged for credit card use are $35 per $1,000 vs no fee for an ACH transfer.
Your Community Investment In Action
Story Quest gives companies a practical way to turn community investment into visible, lasting local impact supporting literacy today while helping young people develop the skills, curiosity and career awareness they’ll carry into tomorrow’s workforce.
Your company funds the opportunity.
The library becomes the community home base.
Story Quest keeps working year after year.
Sponsors
Frequently Asked Questions
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.
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.
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 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.
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.