Books as Prayer: Young Adult Literature and Spirituality

Have you ever picked up a young adult book and found that your reading experience was spiritual in a way that you […]

Wayi Wah!: Let’s Go, It’s Time!

Author Jo Chrona explains that Wayi Wah!—the title of her 2022 book on Indigenous pedagogies—translates as “Let’s go!” or “It’s time!” in […]

10 New Books for Your Classroom Library: Middle Grades and Picture Books

We continue to live in an era of gripping middle grade novels and stunning picture books. Finding just the right books for […]

Tough Women in Dystopian Literature: Considerations and Themes for Teaching

Sarah Kroese and Bill Boerman-Cornell One of the most popular genres of young adult (YA) fiction is dystopian literature. Readers flock to […]

“More Than Their Trauma”: Teaching Michelle Good’s Five Little Indians in a Christian School

In the early part of the twentieth century, Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside was a bustling urban  center; it was a space where all […]

YA Book Suggestions

by Christi Tuit, Laura DeJong, and Justine Keuning-LaFrence As a school counselor, an ELA teacher, and a school librarian, we have always […]

What We Read: Resource Review Issue

Editorial By Abby Zwart and Steve Tuit If your classroom and home are anything like ours are, they’re filled with books. (And […]

Staff Reads: Our Experience with Summer Book Club

*Please see this month’s editorial for more context on this article. Introduction: What We Did Becoming a “Lifelong Explorer” is one of […]

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 […]

Christian Considerations for Choosing Books about the Holocaust

by Martha Mahtani and Bill Boerman-Cornell The Holocaust perpetuated on the Jewish people by the German Nazi party during World War II […]