Best of the Best: Excellent Reading Experiences across a Range of Eclectic Categories
Below are some of the best books out of the two hundred or so I read in 2024. When I teach children’s […]
Six Amazing Young Adult Books You Should Read
The world of young adult literature continues to turn out some amazing novels and non-fiction with every new year. The following books […]
Eleven Standout YA Books for Curriculum, Read Aloud, or Classroom Libraries
Young adult literature continues to be fertile ground for an amazing range of books covering almost every subject imaginable. Below are quick […]
Ten Excellent Young Adult Books and Graphic Novels You Should Probably Read as Soon as You Can
Young Adult (YA) literature is exploding. A broad range of stories is coming out right now in the unprecedented numbers of books […]
The Top Ten Young Adult Books You Need to Read
This year I read a lot of young adult fiction, and I was struck by how much these books engaged social justice […]
The Top Ten Best Adolescent and Young Adult Books (For You and Your Student to Read as Soon as Possible)
This year I read many excellent adolescent and young adult books. Many of these books have a common theme: they take readers […]
A Cross-Cultural Education
Two summers ago, my amazing wife, Amy, and I traveled to Poland for a literacy research conference. To be honest, Poland wasn’t […]
A Tribute to Gary Van Arragon, Editor
Editors are a lot like theatrical lighting designers—when they are really good at what they do, you don’t notice them. Gary Van […]
Bad Language, Telling the Truth, and What the Commandments Say about Communicating
What Middle School Students Think I say to the middle school students, “So, what does the Bible say about language use?” “Don’t […]
The Top Six Lists of the Best Books That You and Your Students Need to Read as Soon as Possible
This year as I looked over the books that I have read in the past year and I tried to figure out […]