This week, The New Yorker will be announcing the longlists for the 2020 National Book Awards. Check back this afternoon for the list for Translated Literature. Kingston James, the protagonist of Kacen Callender’s novel “King and the Dragonflies,” is convinced that his deceased older brother Khalid has transformed into a dragonfly, and spends every afternoon searching…
DetailsFive high school juniors, residing everywhere from Lake Worth, Fla., to Saratoga, Calif., have been named National Student Poets. A partnership between the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the nonprofit Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, the student poet program was launched in 2011, with winners contributing to community programs and poetry events…
DetailsLaquisha hall has spent 17 years educating young Black minds in Baltimore—the past five years at Carver Vocational-Technical High School—and as a teacher she always did whatever she could to foster a love of reading, writing, and books. Frustrated by the district’s English curriculum, she raised $500 to $600 a year to stock her in-class library…
DetailsSix-year-old Kelly Boston-Hill wanted to help other kids and do something a little different for her birthday. So, she hosted a “Contactless – Social Distancing” Book Drive to benefit a non-profit organization called The Book Fairies. Her efforts have been so successful that she has been able to collect and donate more than 5,000 books.…
DetailsYouth ages 8 -17 who love books and are interested in flying are welcome to register for the June 10 event. Participants will receive a free introductory flight and then write about their experience. The event includes a book giveaway. If interested send an email to sherriey211@gmail.com
At first, this young reader was uneasy about getting in the plane with an experienced pilot and taking over the controls. Watch her excitement when she returns from her very first flying lesson.
Scholastic and the non-profit organization We Need Diverse Books has announced that they are expanding their collaboration in order to put more books by diverse authors with diverse characters into schools. For the 2016-2017 school year, the Scholastic Reading Club and #WeNeedDiverseBook will produce together eight flyers to be distributed in classrooms with students ranging from toddlers to YA.…
DetailsWell, it looks like book censorship is one thing we didn’t manage to leave in 2015. This time, however, it’s not the content that’s got parents up in arms, but the front cover: the image of a gun on When I Was The Greatest, by Jason Reynolds, which was recommended for 7th and 8th graders in the New York City…
DetailsListen to Jacqueline Woodson’s acceptance speech for Winning the National Book Awards in Young People’s Literature for Brown Girl Dreaming. acceptance speech
When you teach using project-based learning (PBL), one brings outside expertise into the classroom. My eighth graders begin the year creating science fiction based origin stories for original superhero characters as an introduction to a greater advocacy unit. Therefore, it seemed natural to bring in an actual scientist. Which brought me to CalTech and Dr.…
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