BESTSELLING AUTHOR NICHOLAS SPARKS EXPANDS “NOVEL LEARNING SERIES”

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Sparks’s A Bend in the Road and Dear John added for 2013 Series helps teens prepare for college entrance exams and aligns with ELA Common Core standardsNew York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks’s Novel Learning Series (NLS) will be expanded this summer with three more titles for teenage readers, Grand Central Publishing announced today. The three new books, which will be published in new formats including study guides and “question and explanation” sections, are Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and Sparks’s own Dear John and A Bend in the Road. “I