The Venture Reward · Venture Upward
Yes, your Venture Reward works at Bookroo.
Hand-picked hardcover books, matched to your child's reading level, chosen by people who read every single one first. Add Bookroo to your resource order and Venture takes care of the rest — nothing out of your pocket.
For Venture Upward families in Arizona, Hawai'i, Idaho, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
Your Venture Reward at Bookroo, at a glance
Squarely on the approved list
Venture's approved items name subscription boxes outright — Little Passports, Raddish Kids, Read Aloud Revival. A grade-matched book box sits in that company.
It's a resource order
Bookroo goes on the Resource Order Form as a resource — not a course, not a curriculum line. That wording is most of the battle.
One-time prepaid, nothing renews
A set term, paid once. No auto-renewal, no card on file, nothing to cancel later.
You never pay
Venture and your partner school review the request, then Venture places the order. You'll never enter a card.
Is it allowed?
Books belong on your resource order.
You have $1,000 per student for the year — half now, half in the spring — and a list of things it's allowed to buy. Reading materials are on it.
Venture's approved-items list names subscription boxes outright: Little Passports, Raddish Kids, Read Aloud Revival. A grade-matched book box sits squarely in that company.
Two things worth knowing before you submit, because they're what rejections are usually about:
We're a one-time purchase, not a recurring charge.
Venture doesn't approve subscriptions that auto-renew or keep a card on file. Bookroo for Venture families is prepaid for a set term — a semester or a year, paid once, no renewal. Nothing to cancel later.
Every book is screened, and none of it is religious curriculum.
We read each title before it ships. Public funds can't buy religious materials, and nothing we send is.
Ask for it as a resource order.
This is the part families get wrong. Bookroo isn't requested as a course, and it isn't a language arts or literature curriculum line. It goes on your Resource Order Form, as a resource. Use that wording and your reviewer knows exactly what they're looking at — the full request details are a click away below.
Notes for your state
Pick your club
Find your reader.
Three clubs, each built for a stage of reading. Pick by grade, or by where your reader actually is — you know that better than any chart. Every card ends with the exact request details, ready to paste into your form.
Kindergarten – 1st Grade · Ages 5–6
Picture Book Club
Two hand-selected hardcover picture books each month. Built for read-alouds and brand-new readers — listening comprehension, vocabulary, and the habit of sitting down with a book.
32–40 pages each
$173.64 · one-time prepaid semester
or $299.28 for the full school year — both include shipping
1st – 5th Grade · Ages 7–10
Junior Chapter Book Club
Two hardcover early chapter books each month. For the reader making the jump to reading alone — fluency, stamina, and the confidence that carries them.
120–280 pages each
$173.64 · one-time prepaid semester
or $323.28 for the full school year — both include shipping
3rd – 7th Grade · Ages 9–12
Middle Grade Book Club
Two hardcover chapter books each month. Longer, richer stories that build real comprehension — and a kid who reads because they want to.
250–350 pages each
$173.64 · one-time prepaid semester
or $323.28 for the full school year — both include shipping
Between clubs? Size up. A slightly harder book read together does more for a growing reader than an easy one read alone.
Buying for more than one child? Each student has their own $1,000 and their own order form — so each child gets their own club, drawn from their own Reward. That's also just better reading: a first grader and a fifth grader shouldn't be sharing a stack.
How it works
How to request Bookroo with your Venture Reward
Five steps, about three minutes — all inside Basecamp.
Log in to Basecamp.
Your student's order forms live there.
Get your Curriculum Order Form in first.
Venture asks families to submit the curriculum order before the resource order, and to have it in before the first day of school. Bookroo isn't on that form — but it has to be submitted before you can open the next one.
Open the Resource Order Form for the student you're ordering for.
One form per student. Put everything you want for the term on it before you submit.
Add Bookroo as a resource.
Copy the request details from the club you picked above and paste them in. Include the club name, the price, and the link — reviewers approve faster when they don't have to go looking.
Check your running total, then submit.
The form tracks what you've spent against your $500 for the semester. Anything over $400 in a single item gets an extra approval step, so if you're combining a full year of Bookroo with a big-ticket request, expect it to take a little longer.
Then Venture takes it from there.
Your request goes to Venture's team and your partner school for review. Once it's approved, Venture places the order and the books ship to you. You'll never enter a card.
Already submitted this semester? You get a fresh allotment next semester — and any first-semester money you didn't spend rolls forward into it.
The budget question
What a year of reading actually costs you
Your Venture Reward is $1,000 per student for the year — $500 per semester — and it's covering everything: the laptop, the science kit, the art supplies, the lessons.
So the honest question isn't whether you can afford books. It's what reading is worth against everything else on the form.
The default ask
A semester of Bookroo
$173.64
About 35% of your $500 semester allotment
It leaves room for the technology and supplies that only come around once, it stays under the $400 threshold that triggers extra approval, and you can add the second half in the spring — with rollover, if you didn't spend it all this term.
If reading is the priority
A full school year
$299.28–$323.28
About 30–32% of your full-year Reward
A year of Bookroo is roughly a book every two weeks, chosen and levelled for your child. And unlike workbooks and supplies, none of it gets used up. Asking for the year? Swap the term and price in your request line — or email support@bookroo.com and we'll write it for you.
Want this in your inbox?
One page: the approval wording, your request details, and what to do if a request comes back rejected.
Timing
When to put this on your form
Before your first day of school
Curriculum order forms are due, and your first $500 is available.
Right after that
The Resource Order Form opens — this is where Bookroo goes.
Fall semester
Books arrive monthly. Anything you didn't spend rolls forward.
Start of spring semester
The second $500 unlocks, plus your rollover. New forms.
If school has already started, ask anyway. Venture reviews resource requests through the year. The deadline that matters is your school's, not ours.
Order for the term, not the calendar. Books ship monthly through the term you paid for, so a semester requested in August delivers all fall. If you'd rather have everything at once — some families want the whole stack on the shelf on day one — email support@bookroo.com and we'll ship it together.
Why Bookroo
We read every book before it goes in a box.
Not a summary, not a review — the actual book.
We're looking for stories with heart and imagination, the kind kids ask for again and parents don't dread at bedtime. Natural diversity, yes. Titles that put an agenda ahead of the story, no. Our goal has never been complicated: send books kids love and parents trust.
Every book is hardcover, and every book is part of a custom collection with uniform height and coordinated spines — so what builds up on the shelf looks like a library, not a pile.
50,000+ Happy Readers!
Good to know
Venture Reward questions, answered
Put reading on the form.
Hand-picked hardcover books, matched to your child's level, paid for with a Reward you already have.
Copy your request details