For teachers, school librarians, and collection developers
Textbooks summarize history. Our editions hand students the actual first-person account, with a credentialed historian's annotations doing the work a study guide usually can't: context, fact-checks, and the questions worth arguing about in class.
Why it works in a classroom
Every annotation is written by a named, credentialed historian, not aggregated or machine-generated. Sourcing and authorship you can defend to a curriculum committee.
Our books are first-person accounts by unreliable narrators: swindlers, gamblers, and detectives selling their own legend. The annotations model exactly the skill students need most: interrogating a source instead of absorbing it.
Each title ships as a professionally narrated audiobook alongside print and ebook, a genuine on-ramp for reluctant readers and students who learn by listening.
The access model
Every Clover Mill title launches on hoopla, the digital lending platform used by thousands of public and school libraries. hoopla titles have no waitlists and no copy limits: thirty students can borrow the same book on the same night before a discussion, at no cost to them and no per-copy purchase for you.
Prefer shelves? Annotated paperback and hardcover editions are available through standard library and school purchasing channels via Ingram.
We're a Connecticut-based independent publisher and we like talking to educators. If you're considering a title for a course, a unit, or a collection, reach out: we can share review copies, annotation samples, and format details.
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