By: Bailey Hotujac (Account Manager), Sarah Wilsman (Content Specialist) and Alecia Mouhanna (Marketing and Communications Specialist)

The start of a new school year is an important time to build up your digital collection and get kids excited about reading. OverDrive’s annual Back to School Sale runs now through September 30 and offers discounts of 25-50% off thousands of ebooks and audiobooks. It’s our largest sale of K-12 content all year!

Though learning may look a bit different this year, ebooks and audiobooks are available 24/7 to your school community – whether in the classroom or at home – through the Sora reading app. Now is the best time for schools to purchase content and get the most bang for your budget.

This year, we made it a priority to discount titles to help you maintain a diverse and representative digital collection.  We also highlighted social and emotional learning (SEL) titles to help your students cope during a time of great strain.

Tips for shopping the sale

Not sure where to start? Try browsing through some of our recommended title lists, curated by our expert in-house librarians. Titles on each list are automatically sorted by popularity across schools.

Below, you’ll find a selection to help you dive in, including diverse titles, books for SEL, new and popular titles your students will return to again and again and top class reads – and that’s only the beginning. Scroll through to discover a new title or two – or more – and save!

Diverse Reads

diverse books list

DIVERSIFY YOUR SCHOOL LIBRARY WITH THESE RECOMMENDED READS

SEL

social emotional learning curriculum

BROWSE TITLES TO SUPPORT YOUR STUDENTS’ SEL

Popular titles: Elementary School

elementary books

EXPLORE POPULAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TITLES

Popular titles: Middle School

books for middle school students

BROWSE TOP BACK TO SCHOOL TITLES FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS

Popular titles: High School

high school books to read

BROWSE POPULAR HIGH SCHOOL TITLES

Class Reads

classroom bookshelf

DISCOVER CLASS READS FOR ALL AGES

back to school with overdriveTo browse even more recommended lists, click through to the check out the Back to School Sale here.