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 […]
Found Families: An Idea for Blending Whole-Class Novels and Student Choice in Middle School and High School English Classrooms
The ideas in this article spring from three important identities I carry in my heart: reader, teacher, and child in the family […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Seeing Ourselves in Literature
I was at my desk collecting writing assignments when Hannah, one of my sixth graders, walked over. “Mrs. Blok,” she said, “when […]
The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel by Deborah Hopkinson
London, 1854. A medical breakthrough.In a fascinating manner, Deborah Hopkinson delivers a novel that draws the reader into the fictional story of […]
Go!
Jesus said, “Go into all the world . . .” (Mark 16:15). When we read these words as Christian educators, we tend […]