Read below to find our staff picks for January 2024 and learn more about these must-reads!
Learn more about these staff picks →Tag: Diverse Books
Celebrate Lunar New Year with Lunar New Year Love Story!
Celebrate Lunar New Year with Lunar New Year Love Story!
Teachers and librarians! Celebrate Lunar New Year with graphic novel superstars Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham, and their latest acclaimed collaboration, Lunar New Year Love Story! Enter this exciting sweepstakes for a chance to be one of twenty-five winners to receive a copy of Lunar New Year Love Story*! Read on to learn more about this all-star collaboration, and their heartwarming young adult rom-com about fate, family, and falling in love.
Graphic Novel Preview: Asgardians: Odin by George O’Connor
Our Graphic Novel Preview series invites readers to look inside graphic novels. This month, we’re highlighting Asgardians, a new series by George O’Connor launching this March with Asgardians: Odin!
Look inside Asgardians: Odin→2024 Notable Paperbacks
Looking for new books to add to your library collection? Browse a selection of bestselling, award-winning 2024 paperback releases, including picture books, middle grade, young adult, and adult crossover books!
Discover notable paperbacks →Holiday Book List
Holiday Book List
With the holiday season upon us, we are excited to display these delightful titles and celebrate the holidays across many cultures and traditions. From Diwali to Lunar New Year, we hope to diversify your reading list into the new year.
Check Out our Winter/Holiday Titles →Graphic Novel Preview: Call Me Iggy by Jorge Aguirre; illustrated by Rafael Rosado
Our Graphic Novel Preview series invites readers to look inside graphic novels. This month we’re highlighting the powerful own-voices young adult graphic novel Call Me Iggy by Jorge Aguirre; illustrated by Rafael Rosado, out February 13, 2024!
Look inside Call Me Iggy→NCTE 2023 Conference Resource Center
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Graphic Novel Preview: Look on the Bright Side by Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann
Our Graphic Novel Preview series invites readers to look inside graphic novels. This month we’re highlighting the highly anticipated sequel middle grade graphic novel Look on the Bright Side by Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann, out now!
Look inside Look on the Bright Side →Activity Kit: Big Tune: Rise of the Dancehall Prince
Activity Kit: Big Tune: Rise of the Dancehall Prince
Take a deep dive with your classroom into Big Tune: Rise of the Dancehall Prince by Alliah L. Agostini; illustrated by Shamar Knight-Justice. This picture book is about a community coming together to have a good time. In this activity kit, you can host your own Dancehall Party, and bring different cultures together. A Dancehall Party is when “Family, friends, music, food, and drink are a universal recipe for a good time! And in immigrant communities like the early 1990s Brooklyn, New York, Jamaican community depicted here, parties or bashments are an opportunity to reconnect with local family, friends, and the rhythm and flavors of a home thousands of miles away.”
Click below to download the activity kit to share in your school or library.
Find Out More about Big Tune: Rise of the dancehall prince Activity Kit >MacKids Spotlight: Mitali Perkins
MacKids Spotlight: Mitali Perkins
This month’s Author Spotlight highlights Mitali Perkins, the author of Hope in the Valley, a middle-grade novel exploring grief, friendship, family, and growing up in a community facing a housing crisis. It’s also received five starred reviews this year!
Discover More about MITALI PERKINS and HOPE IN THE VALLEY