The Junior Readers Series has been specifically designed to encourage reading for pleasure and to meet the supplementary needs of upper primary school children. Wide and repeated reading of books in the series should enable pupils to automatically improve their written as well as spoken English.

In The Motherless Baby, Ngozi, a young school girl, gets mixed up with a band of musicians. One of them, Pedro, makes her pregnant. What will she do? (This book is recommended for pupils in the last two years of primary school.)