27 A+ Back To School Gifts That Will Start The School Year Off Right

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Filled with weird, wild, and wacky stories about everything form video games to chicken eggs, Interesting Stories for Curious Kids will set their love of reading aflame. It's a great book to get them primed for the school year ahead and excited about learning!

A full tablet can be a little cumbersome but this LCD writing tablet is much more lightweight and easier to use and write on. It's got a 12" screen and writing on it feels about the same as pen on paper, which makes it easier to write more detailed notes quicker.

How do you ask someone to homecoming? How do you deal with all that homework? How is it possible to make friends with people in other grades? Learn all that and more in this book, which takes the mystery out of going to high school and boosts confidence, grades, and excitement for the school years ahead.

Learning about the eras of geological time is fun and easy when you're doing a puzzle. This 1000-piece jigsaw is as entertaining as it is educational. The colorful striations make it easy to put together and the occasional dinosaur bone makes it extra fun.

Back to school means going back to math class and going back to math class is BLECH. Unless you have a game like Sum Swamp to play! The whole family can get in on the math skill game, which is fast-paced, better for learning than homework will ever be, and might even make math...fun?

Candy Crayons combine fun and flavor with colorful, crayon-shaped candies perfect for playful snacking. Each crayon offers a sweet, fruity taste, making them a hit with kids and adults alike. Great for party favors, gifts, or whimsical treats anytime!

The Scanmarker is a game-changer for med students low on time but high on the amount of reading they have to do. While they "highlight" things in their book with the device, it scans the text, can turn it from text-to-speech, can help create summaries, help them take notes and upload to the cloud, and more.

Her intellectual nature means she loves to read, but she also likes choice. Save her from lugging books to and fro with a Kindle Paperwhite. The eReader is glare-free and has insane battery life. In addition to being able to buy eBooks, the reader can be paired with library apps to deliver borrowed eBooks.

Get excited about atoms and augmented reality with this set that’s a major upgrade on the snoozer chem class you took in high school. First, build the atoms, then scan them to learn more about the molecule and how it makes a difference in your everyday life.

Make the office a little more humdrum with a desk organizer that takes you on a magical adventure over the rainbow. The charming wood organizer has plenty of space for pens, pencils, crayons, sticky notes, and more, making it the perfect piece for the space of a kid or an adult.

Pencils have a bad rap as breakable and crumbly but not anymore! These bendy pencils will impress students and teachers alike with their flexibility and strength. The flexible pencils are just as functional as wood ones but come in more fun colors.

When back to school means higher grade levels, taking notes might be a thing they have to do. It's more fun when you do it with pens that smell good and have pretty colors. There are six tutti-frutti scented jelly pens in this set, and they smell good enough to eat!

Kids who need a little help staying focused will get it from this magnetic fidget ring set. Swinging the colorful circles around each other with the hands flips a switch in the brain that makes concentrating in class easier.

For younger kiddos, this is a great mug for their afterschool cocoa, for older kids, it's a great mug for their coffee! For both, it can be a spiffy pencil holder. The tapered mug holds 14oz of liquid and features none other than Hello Kitty!

Kids go nuts for Nutella, who doesn't? Pack a few of these in their lunch box at back-to-school time and they'll be excited to leave summer vacation behind. There are 20 packs in the box, make it a Wednesday treat to get them over the hump day slump.

Gone are the days of trying to chase down a crayon sharpener or worse - coloring with blunt crayons. Crayola Twistables are like ballpoint pens but crayons, with a cartridge of vibrant wax that just keeps going. There are 50 colors in this box, so much room for creativity!

The Post-Its on the bus go on the paper, on the paper, on the paper! There are 24 pads in this four-wheeled wonder and it's a great back-to-school gift for a teacher or a high schooler who's going to be taking a lot of AP classes!