Browse all of our October new releases, including new picture books, middle grade, young adult, graphic novels, and paperback books!
October 2023 New Releases
Author: Elysse Villalobos
MacKids Spotlight: Nasuġraq Rainey Hopson
This month’s Author Spotlight highlights Nasuġraq Rainey Hopson, the author of Eagle Drums, a magical realistic middle grade debut about the origin story of the Iñupiaq Messenger Feast, a Native Alaskan tradition.
Discover More about Rainey Hopson and Eagle DrumsDiscussion Guide: Gone Wolf by Amber McBride
Discussion Guide: Gone Wolf by Amber McBride
Gone Wolf
By Amber McBride
Ages 10-14
On Sale 10/03/23!
In middle-grade debut, Gone Wolf, award-winning author Amber McBride lays bare the fears of being young and Black in America.
In the future, a Black girl known only as Inmate Eleven is kept confined — to be used as a biological match for the president’s son, should he fall ill. She is called a Blue — the color of sadness. She lives in a small-small room with her dog, who is going wolf more often – he’s pacing and imagining he’s free. Inmate Eleven wants to go wolf too—she wants to know why she feels so Blue and what is beyond her small-small room.
In the present, Imogen lives outside of Washington DC. The pandemic has distanced her from everyone but her mother and her therapist. Imogen has intense phobias and nightmares of confinement. Her two older brothers used to help her, but now she’s on her own, until a college student helps her see the difference between being Blue and sad, and Black and empowered.
In this symphony of a novel, award-winning author Amber McBride lays bare the fears of being young and Black in America, and empowers readers to remember their voices and stories are important, especially when they feel the need to go wolf.
DOWNLOAD THE Gone Wolf DISCUSSION GUIDE HERE →Activity Kit: More Than Words by Roz MacLean
Looking for the perfect pick for a back-to-school read? More Than Words by Roz MacLean emphasizes the different forms communication can take and how we can better listen to and respect these modes of expression.
Click below to download the activity kit to share in your school or library.
Find Out More about MORE THAN WORDS And Our Activity Kit >September 2023 New Releases
Browse all of our September new releases, including new picture books, middle grade, young adult, graphic novels, and paperback books!
Falling for Food: Picture Books and more!
Falling for Food: Picture Books and more!
As children gain early learning skills, the power of reading can help them learn more about the social world around them. Reading books about food and cultures around the world establishes empathy and allows kids to embrace and share their cultural differences.
Early exposure to different cuisines can also be beneficial in establishing a healthy relationship with nutrition (reference). In their formative years, picture books about food can be a valuable tool for children to establish a healthy connection to food as they gain more familiarity with various foods. One way children can incorporate food acceptance through picture books is by learning cooking practices and step-by-step recipes that they can cook alongside their family.
We hope that by sharing our wonderful picture books that celebrate different cuisines, recipes, and themes, we can leave young readers some food for thought.
Discover THIS SELECTION OF Food Picture books →My Life Series Educator’s Guide
Janet and Jake Tashjian’s award-winning My Life series, praised by Kirkus Reviews as “a kinder, gentler Wimpy Kid with all the fun”, follows the coming-of-age misadventures of middle-grader Derek Fallon in school and through his attempts to follow his bliss as a cartoonist, video gamer, stuntboy, and ninja. Hilarious and uplifting, young readers will find themselves relating to Derek’s problems and inspired by his solutions.
Learn more about how to use the My Life series in the classroom and bring these activities to life for each book in the series in this new educator guide!
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August 2023 New Releases
Browse all of our August new releases, including new picture books, middle grade, young adult, graphic novels, and paperback books!
Educator’s Guide: Torpedoed by Deborah Heiligman
Educator’s Guide: Torpedoed by Deborah Heiligman
Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of ‘The Children’s Ship’ by Deborah Heiligman
From award-winning author Deborah Heiligman comes Torpedoed, a true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of Benares, which was evacuating children from England during WWII.
Amid the constant rain of German bombs and the escalating violence of World War II, British parents by the thousands chose to send their children out of the country: the wealthy, independently; the poor, through a government relocation program called CORB. In September 1940, passenger liner SS City of Benares set sail for Canada with one hundred children on board.
When the war ships escorting the Benares departed, a German submarine torpedoed what became known as the Children’s Ship. Out of tragedy, ordinary people became heroes. This is their story.
DOWNLOAD THE TEACHER’S GUIDE HERE →Teacher’s Guides for Every Occasion!
Teacher’s Guides for Every Occasion
If you’re looking to boost your lesson plans with great reads and important classroom discourse, we have a selection of guides to help! This list of teacher’s guides for every occassion can help you plan for the year! From well-loved canon to important historical moments, you’ll find pre-reading questions, discussion topics, and common core ties that are evergreen conversation starters.
Scroll through the images below to find teacher’s guides for The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater; A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle; The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe; adapted by Salva Rubio and illustrated by Loreto Aroca; translated by Lilit Thwaites; The Burning (Young Readers Edition) by Tim Madigan; adapted by Hilary Beard; Wishtree by Katherine Applegate; and Speak the Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson; illustrated by Emily Carroll.
