Classroom Library Ideas: Finding What’s Missing
Looking for classroom library ideas? In this post I’ll show you to audit your shelves and find the…
by Danielle Hall January 19, 2021
Looking for classroom library ideas? In this post I’ll show you to audit your shelves and find the…
by Danielle Hall January 19, 2021
I love novels in verse, and the new book Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam…
by Danielle Hall December 29, 2020
Are you going to teach The Giver during distance learning? Great choice! Here’s how to make your novel…
by Danielle Hall December 1, 2020
Many of you have asked for recommendations for Indigenous texts for Secondary ELA to help enrichen your curriculum.…
by Danielle Hall November 10, 2020
Happy Hispanic Heritage Month, y’all! We celebrate this every year from September 15th to October 15th, and we…
by Danielle Hall September 24, 2020
When Liliana Cruz gets an opportunity to go to a school in the Boston suburbs, her immigrant mother…
by Danielle Hall August 18, 2020
I recently finished Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron and it got me thinking about using inclusive YA…
by Danielle Hall August 6, 2020
Are you looking to create a more inclusive classroom library? Are you asking yourself, “What should I read…
by Leila Hobbs July 10, 2020
Hey y’all! Are you looking for diverse texts for secondary ELA? Do you want to grow your classroom…
by Danielle Hall June 8, 2020
As some of you may already know, I’m now officially a published author! My first book, The Challenging…
by Danielle Hall May 26, 2020
Big news! Please help me welcome The Challenging Riddle Book for Kids to the world! As y’all know,…
by Danielle Hall April 28, 2020
Looking for a book rec for your sports loving students? I recently read (and loved) After the Shot…
by Danielle Hall January 30, 2020
With the decade drawing to a close, it’s time to reflect on the great books released in 2019!…
by Danielle Hall December 12, 2019
This week we’re chatting about Sick Kids in Love by Hannah Moskowitz, a heartwarming #ownvoices tale of two…
by Danielle Hall November 21, 2019
It’s Native American History Month! How are you celebrating and honoring Native culture in your classroom? One great…
by Danielle Hall November 7, 2019
Our friend Courtney joins us to chat about A River of Royal Blood by Amanda Joy. It’s perfect…
by Danielle Hall October 31, 2019
Do you struggle to get students interested in nonfiction? Keep pushing! Fostering a love of reading nonfiction books…
by Danielle Hall October 24, 2019
Books can be both mirrors, reflecting students’ lives, or windows into the lives of others. You know the…
by Danielle Hall October 10, 2019
Writer & teacher L. Samantha Smith joins us to chat about The Stars and the Blackness Between Them…
by Danielle Hall September 27, 2019
Since we started the YA Cafe Podcast, we’ve gotten a lot of questions around LGBTQ middle grade novels.…
by Danielle Hall September 19, 2019
This week we’re chatting about Pet by Akwaeke Emezi. Our guest is author H.D. Hunter who has some…
by Danielle Hall September 12, 2019
BookTuber, Nikea JaLynn (cohost of the series #BlackGirlLit), joins us to chat about The Revolution of Birdie Randolph…
by Danielle Hall August 22, 2019
Are you teaching short stories for high school, and all you have is a dusty anthology of “classic”…
by Danielle Hall August 15, 2019
Stacey Lee does it again! The Downstairs Girl is exactly the kind of historical fiction we need right…
by Danielle Hall August 8, 2019
Project Runway meets Mulan in the new YA fantasy novel Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim. Joining us…
by Danielle Hall July 25, 2019
sHow many Asian American YA novels do you have in your classroom library? We recently read Wicked Fox,…
by Danielle Hall July 2, 2019
We are joined by Zshavette, a Pinay bookstagrammer to chat about Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay.…
by Danielle Hall June 27, 2019
From the 17th Century adventures in Lady’s Guide, to the dystopian future predicted in Internment, this list has…
by Danielle Hall June 20, 2019
This week we chat with author Justina Chen about Gilmore Girls, Firefly, and of course our featured title,…
by Danielle Hall June 13, 2019
Author/editor Jessica Spotswood joins us to chat about the blood witches and bad breakups in These Witches Don’t…
by Danielle Hall May 30, 2019