Spark summer reading adventures!
Transport readers to new worlds, fuel creativity, and make every page an adventure.
Novel Effect Summer Reading Plans bring readers together around captivating stories.
Engage Readers All Summer Long
immersive soundscapes • engaging activities • transforming readers
Novel Effect is an award-winning app that revolutionizes routine reading with interactive soundscapes. As you read aloud your favorite books, Novel Effect responds to your voice with music, sound effects, and character voices.
Ensure that learners maintain reading momentum and retain key literacy skills over the summer with engaging, high-impact read-alouds. Students and their families choose from any Novel Effect-compatible book or in-app ebooks to reinforce learning, build comprehension, and foster a love of reading.
With simple, interactive tools, families can seamlessly support reading through the summer while students strengthen vocabulary and critical thinking. They’ll be set for a strong start to the new school year.
Unlock a Summer of Success
prevent learning loss and strengthen reading skills
With Novel Effect, your summer reading program goes beyond traditional reading programs by turning books into interactive experiences that keep learners reading and learning all summer long. Our customized Summer Reading Plans help families easily support literacy at home while readers build vocabulary, comprehension, and analytical skills.
By investing in an engaging Summer Reading Plan, you can ensure learners return to school prepared, confident, and excited to learn—minimizing the summer slide and maximizing literacy growth.
SCHOOLS
Provide students and families with the tools they need to maintain the momentum of learning.
DISTRICTS
Foster home-school connections that builds reading engagement and supports literacy learning.
LIBRARIES
Ignite a love of reading and build bonds between grownups and budding bookworms.
A Novel Effect Summer Reading Plan elevates your existing summer reading initiatives. Add a layer of engagement to keep students reading all summer, and make achievement soar! After receiving their activation card, families activate their accounts in 3 easy steps: 
Download the Novel Effect app and create a free account.
Scan the QR Code on the activation card.
Follow the prompts to accept the complimentary subscription.
Fuel curiosity, creativity, and a love of reading
easy to use tools to enrich summer learning
Novel Effect is proud to partner with you in skipping the summer slide and supporting summer reading.
- Our summer reading themes align with the Collaborative Summer Library Program!
- Read aloud any of the books with our custom-designed soundscapes.
- Look for the pencil icon on any book cover to download our educator-created activities, and give readers a back-to-school boost!
- Share our summer reading tracker with families to make reading together and adventure!
- Most importantly, have fun reading!
Whether through summer school sessions with teachers and librarians or cozy family read-alouds, Novel Effect keeps readers engaged all summer long. They’ll be excited and ready to dive into more reading from the very first day of the new school year!
How to Use:
- Download and print your Summer Reading Student Tracking Sheets!
- Help your child track their reading progress creating a color palette or building a tesselation each time you read together with Novel Effect!
- Show us your progress! Post photos of your map progress on social media and tag them with #NovelEffect. We’ll be re-sharing photos and videos all month long!
Turn reading into a magical summer experience
help readers stay motivated and build confidence
Looking for ways to keep students engaged all summer long? Our team of literacy experts has compiled their top strategies to prevent the summer slide and inspire a love of reading that lasts!
The award-winning Novel Effect app transforms storytime into an interactive, immersive experience with perfectly timed music, sound effects, and character voices that bring books to life. Simply read aloud from real books you already love, and Novel Effect seamlessly enhances the experience in real time. By making reading more engaging and enjoyable, the app motivates children to read more often, reinforcing key literacy skills and helping them stay on track throughout summer break.
Step into a summer of unforgettable reading with Novel Effect—where every story comes to life and fuels vibrant imaginations. Join our community of educators, families, and librarians who transform reading into an engaging, interactive experience that captivates, educates, and inspires readers of all ages.
