In my experience they count a book by the pages. For example, 100 pages equals 1 book. You probably need to go to the teacher and talk to her about what is going on. She may agree to allow 2 Junie books to count as 1 book or somthing like that. Once she gets comfortable with the Junie books though, she should challenge herself a little with somthing harder. Another thing to consider is have her read books that are also movies. My daughter could not get through Twilight (and all her friends could). After she watched the movie she breezed through t he book. It just made it easier to unde