About 241 Books

We are a team of former educators and curriculum developers who believe that literacy and social studies are natural partners.

We create books and lessons filled with fiction stories and social studies content that are as easy to implement as they are fun.

The founders of 241 Books stand smiling at an educational conference. They hold a history book titled "Two Spies in Jamestown", which is part of a nine book series. Their shirts read "Stronger Readers. Better Citizens."

Our Mission

Build stronger readers and better citizens. We create books and lessons filled with fiction stories and social studies content that are as easy to implement as they are fun..

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    Erin Fry

    FOUNDER | WRITER

    Erin was a middle school educator before transitioning to full-time curriculum development in 2019. She has worked in a variety of roles in educational publishing and ed tech including writing lessons and activities, assessment items and passages, and hi-lo readers.

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    Amy Hauck-Wilson

    FOUNDER | CREATIVE DIRECTOR

    A true multihyphenate, Amy designs and creates videos, animations, graphics, and documents, among other media. After several years in TV broadcasting, Amy shifted into educational media in 2019.

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    Steve Seely

    FOUNDER | CURRICULUM

    A California Teacher of the Year and a 34-year veteran of the classroom, Steve has a deep love for teaching. He’s developed curriculum for top educational publishers like History Alive! and Seesaw, always with an emphasis on making social studies more engaging and impactful.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Every unit includes 

    • high-interest print chapter book

    • printed Student Journal and Teacher’s Guide

    • digital license to access instructional videos and slides. 

    Every component is standards-aligned and thoughtfully designed to build literacy skills, ensure vocabulary growth, and invite inquiry and curiosity. Our unique knowledge-building, content-rich curriculum ensures equity and access to rigorous materials.

  • Our literacy-first social studies program is crafted to fit easily into your reading instruction time. Our content-rich stories infuse history, geography, and civics education with targeted science of reading strategies. It’s reading and social studies together. That’s why we call it a two-for-one.

  • Students! 241 Books is great for teachers, educators, and student guardians to share with young readers. If you want to sneak some social studies content into your reading time or build literacy skills and civics education, 241 Books is for you! 

  • 241 Books anchors every fun, engaging book with science of reading literacy skills. Each book focuses on specific prefixes, suffixes, root words, and vocabulary. By pairing fiction with nonfiction, we strengthen comprehension and real-world connections. Every unit also includes multiple opportunities for students to write and ends with a carefully designed assessment that helps students practice key ELA skills such as finding the main idea, using context clues, and writing to different prompts.

  • Each of our flexible units is designed with ease-of-use for the teacher in mind. Suggestions in the Teacher’s Guide provide extra support to learners who need it. Instruction is multi-modal and includes video, audio, hands-on activities, writing, and speaking. In addition, many activities are created for flexible collaboration. Finally, these units provide enough content with the option to be taught over the course of a few days to a few weeks.

  • Social studies is the backbone of every book and unit. Each 9-book series covers an entire year of social studies content and includes geography, history, economics, and civics topics. Discussion is also at the heart of our program. We provide scaffolded prompts and offer discussion guidance to help students become more proficient debaters and listeners - skills that are essential to civics education.