Teaching To Kill A Mockingbird
Are you teaching To Kill a Mockingbird this year? Whether you view it as a treasured classic, or…
January 26, 2021Book reviews for teachers, librarians, and book sharers. Focused on Young Adult and Middle Grade Literature
Are you teaching To Kill a Mockingbird this year? Whether you view it as a treasured classic, or…
Looking for classroom library ideas? In this post I’ll show you to audit your shelves and find the…
I love novels in verse, and the new book Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam…
What a year 2020 has been, am I right? Well, amid everything, some amazing new books joined the…
Are you going to teach The Giver during distance learning? Great choice! Here’s how to make your novel…
Many of you have asked for recommendations for Indigenous texts for Secondary ELA to help enrichen your curriculum.…
Happy Hispanic Heritage Month, y’all! We celebrate this every year from September 15th to October 15th, and we…
When Liliana Cruz gets an opportunity to go to a school in the Boston suburbs, her immigrant mother…
I recently finished Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron and it got me thinking about using inclusive YA…
Are you looking to create a more inclusive classroom library? Are you asking yourself, “What should I read…
Hey y’all! Are you looking for diverse texts for secondary ELA? Do you want to grow your classroom…
As some of you may already know, I’m now officially a published author! My first book, The Challenging…
Big news! Please help me welcome The Challenging Riddle Book for Kids to the world! As y’all know,…
Looking for a book rec for your sports loving students? I recently read (and loved) After the Shot…
With the decade drawing to a close, it’s time to reflect on the great books released in 2019!…
This week we’re chatting about Sick Kids in Love by Hannah Moskowitz, a heartwarming #ownvoices tale of two…
It’s Native American History Month! How are you celebrating and honoring Native culture in your classroom? One great…
Our friend Courtney joins us to chat about A River of Royal Blood by Amanda Joy. It’s perfect…
Do you struggle to get students interested in nonfiction? Keep pushing! Fostering a love of reading nonfiction books…
Books can be both mirrors, reflecting students’ lives, or windows into the lives of others. You know the…
Writer & teacher L. Samantha Smith joins us to chat about The Stars and the Blackness Between Them…
Since we started the YA Cafe Podcast, we’ve gotten a lot of questions around LGBTQ middle grade novels.…
This week we’re chatting about Pet by Akwaeke Emezi. Our guest is author H.D. Hunter who has some…
BookTuber, Nikea JaLynn (cohost of the series #BlackGirlLit), joins us to chat about The Revolution of Birdie Randolph…
Are you teaching short stories for high school, and all you have is a dusty anthology of “classic”…
Stacey Lee does it again! The Downstairs Girl is exactly the kind of historical fiction we need right…
Project Runway meets Mulan in the new YA fantasy novel Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim. Joining us…
sHow many Asian American YA novels do you have in your classroom library? We recently read Wicked Fox,…
We are joined by Zshavette, a Pinay bookstagrammer to chat about Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay.…
From the 17th Century adventures in Lady’s Guide, to the dystopian future predicted in Internment, this list has…