Random House

Stepping Stones

Random House's Stepping Stones is a single line rather than a numbered ladder: 26 books at one reading stage, typically 490L–600L and around 7,500 words.

Books
26
Typical range
490L–600L

The shelf

26 books in Stepping Stones

Bestselling first. This line publishes at one reading stage, so there are no levels to choose between.

Keep going

Beyond one publisher's ladder

A level only means something inside its own program. These pages work across the whole catalog, so a reader who has run out of one program has somewhere to go.