Our Penguin Young Reader division has launched season 2 of the We Are YA podcast!
This season is filled with short episodes with different YA authors talking about how they’re doing during the time of COVID-19, as well as what they’re working on, and what they’re reading and watching! Be sure to share this with your teen & tween students so they can get messages directly from their favorite authors!
We’ve linked our current favorite episode (it changes every day!), with Ruta Sepetys, author of The Fountains of Silence, Salt to the Sea, Out of the Easy, and Between Shades of Gray. From there, you can find the rest of the season, including the most recent episodes with Tochi Onyebuchi, Marie Lu, Danielle Vega, and Laurie Halse Anderson.
Standards-Aligned Manga Gives Students a New Way to Learn, One Adventure at a Time Penguin Random House is thrilled to offer titles from Manga Quest, a new series from TOKYOPOP Learning. TOKYOPOP, the pioneering manga publisher that introduced an entire generation of American readers to the art form, has launched Manga Quest, the debut series from
Interview in April 2026 by Claire Kelley, Seven Stories Press, with Jonathan Kozol author of We Shall Not Bow Down: Children of Color Under Siege, An Invocation to Resistance. You have long argued that educational inequality is not inevitable but the result of political decisions. Why do you think the idea that inequality is “natural”
