Latinx YA Books for Your Classroom Library
Happy Hispanic Heritage Month, y’all! We celebrate this every year from September 15th to October 15th, and we…
September 24, 2020Book reviews for teachers, librarians, and book sharers. Focused on Young Adult and Middle Grade Literature
Happy Hispanic Heritage Month, y’all! We celebrate this every year from September 15th to October 15th, and we…
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…
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 about LGBTQ middle-grade novels. This…
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…
This week we chat with author Justina Chen about Gilmore Girls, Firefly, and of course our featured title,…
Author/editor Jessica Spotswood joins us to chat about the blood witches and bad breakups in These Witches Don’t…
PRIDE month is almost here! Woo-hoo! In celebration, here are 21 diverse LGBTQ+ YA novels for your high…
This week we are joined once again by our friend Anna aka @never_withouta_book to discuss Elizabeth Acevedo’s…
This week we discuss an indigenous #ownvoices novel, The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline, and how we as…
Don’t miss this lively chat with author Natasha Deen! She shares about her life and we discuss the…
Teaching The Great Gatsby can be transportive and engaging. Students explore a whole new era (Flappers! Jazz! Speakeasies!)…
Join us this week as we chat about In the Key of Nira Ghani, the story of a…
Many students adore fantasy and sci-fi, but most of our class novel choices are contemporary or historical fiction.…
Author H.D. Hunter joins Danielle for a discussion of Trauma-Informed Teaching and YA books that touch on grief,…