Dive Into Summer Reading

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Three cheers for summer reading! High quality summer programs foster creativity, promote reading skills, and help to prevent the summer slide. TeachingBooks is ready to enhance your summer reading with thoughtful digital resources curated to engage readers and connect them to the books and programs enjoyed in your community.

Check out resources for these fabulous programs. And, if you’re still looking for more, explore We Are Kid Lit’s Indigenous and People of Color selections and tools for each student to build their own booklists! Enjoy, and email me if we can be of any assistance.

Nick Glass
Founder & Executive Director
TeachingBooks and Book Connections
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This is a full-time position that can be based anywhere, working remotely with our Implementation team and customers.

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• Be a positive, organized, and collaboratively-minded professional who loves teaching and helping others.
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Featured Booklist: Sora Sweet Reads

Enjoy hundreds of resources for both the elementary & middle and high school Sora Sweet Reads collections—a program from OverDrive that includes free and simultaneous use children’s and YA ebooks and audiobooks.

Behind the Books: "One for STEM, and STEM for All"

Laurie Wallmark wants to share her love of STEM and address the inadequate exposure to these topics, prejudicial expectations, and lack of interest that can deter kids from these fields. Learn how her books combat these issues in her Behind the Books blog post.

Meet-the-Author Recording: The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang

In this recording, author Kao Kalia Yang shares the opening paragraphs from The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir (Coffee House Press, 2008), telling of her family’s journey from the Ban Vinai Refugee camp in Thailand to their new home in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Waka T. Brown on While I Was Away

In this empowering middle-grade memoir, Waka T. Brown takes readers on a journey to 1980s Japan, where she was sent as a child to reconnect to her family’s roots and discover a new sense of home and self. Learn more about While I Was Away (Quill Tree/Harper, 2021) in this edition of TeachingBooks’ Virtual Book Tour.

Randy Ribay on Teaching and Writing

In this For Teachers, By Teachers post, author Randy Ribay talks about his novel Patron Saints of Nothing (Penguin Books for Young Readers, 2019) and how he strives to connect with students by creating stories that are culturally or personally relevant to them.

Featured Booklist: Mythopoeic Fantasy Award

If you love fantasy books, check out these 200 titles from the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. Since 1971, this award has been given to the books which best exemplify a fantasy book in the tradition of The Hobbit and The Chronicles of Narnia. Explore some memorably epic worlds with these titles!

Listen In with Matthew Winner & The Children's Book Podcast

Ilima Loomis and Kenard Pak come together to celebrate a food, an island nation, a family, and a tradition in this building rhyme story of a family preparing poi for their ohana’s luau. Learn more about how the author and illustrator partnered to create ‘Ohana Means Family (Holiday House, 2020).

End-of-Year Student Projects with TeachingBooks

TeachingBooks is great for students to use! In this blog post, we are highlighting end-of-the-year student projects that can be completed with the support of resources found on the site. With each of these projects, students can practice citing resources with the citation option found within the sharing tool.

TeachingBooks Conversation Starters for SEL

Infuse Social Emotional Learning into your instruction. Jumpstart conversations around SEL topics. Get inspiration directly from authors and illustrators.

• Explore connections to SEL standards
• Discover authoritative awards & lists
• Find activities and key search terms

Contests & Giveaways

Check out our May Contests & Giveaways, accompanied by multimedia resources!

• Chickens on the Loose by Jane Kurtz & John Joseph (West Margin Press, 2021)
• Do You Know Where the Animals Live? by Peter Wohlleben (Greystone Kids, 2021)
• No Way, They Were Gay?: Hidden Lives and Secret Loves by Lee Wind (Lerner, 2021)
• and more!

See the May Contests & Giveaways on our blog.

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