Books for the English Language Arts Classroom

By Kaitlyn Spotts | September 26 2023 | English Language ArtsGeneralConferences

Check out these new and essential books for the English Language Arts classroom. Click through each title to see a description, read an excerpt, and download educator resources.

The Vanishing Half
The Vanishing Half
A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)
Brit Bennett
978-0-525-53696-3
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick! The #1 New York Times bestseller with over 1 million copies sold, "a story of absolute, universal timelessness" (Entertainment Weekly), now in paperback for the first time.
$18.00 US
Feb 01, 2022
Paperback
400 Pages
Riverhead Books
Between Two Moons
Between Two Moons
A Novel
Aisha Abdel Gawad
978-0-385-54861-8
Between Two Moons is a deeply moving family story about identity, faith, and belonging set in the Muslim immigrant enclave of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn following three siblings coming of age over the course of one Ramadan.
$28.00 US
Jun 06, 2023
Hardcover
336 Pages
Doubleday
Right by My Side
Right by My Side
David Haynes
978-0-14-313755-9
Move over, Holden Caulfield, and meet Marshall Field Finney, in the 30th anniversary edition of Right by My Side, by a celebrated chronicler of Black middle class life in the American Midwest A Penguin Classic
$16.00 US
Jan 31, 2023
Paperback
208 Pages
Penguin Classics
The Unsettled
The Unsettled
A novel
Ayana Mathis
978-0-525-51993-5
From the best-selling author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, a searing multi-generational novel—set in the 1980s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and in the tiny town of Bonaparte, Alabama—about a mother fighting for her sanity and survival
$29.00 US
Sep 26, 2023
Hardcover
336 Pages
Knopf
Poverty, by America
Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond
978-0-593-23991-9
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.
$28.00 US
Mar 21, 2023
Hardcover
304 Pages
Crown
True Biz
True Biz
A Novel
Sara Novic
978-0-593-24152-3
A “tender, beautiful and radiantly outraged” (The New York Times Book Review) novel that follows a year of seismic romantic, political, and familial shifts for a teacher and her students at a boarding school for the deaf, from the acclaimed author of Girl at War
$18.00 US
Feb 28, 2023
Paperback
416 Pages
Random House Trade Paperbacks
My Shouting, Shattered, Whispering Voice
My Shouting, Shattered, Whispering Voice
A Guide to Writing Poetry and Speaking Your Truth
Patrice Vecchione
978-1-60980-985-0
The ultimate writing guide for teens from the editor of Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience
$16.95 US
Mar 31, 2020
Paperback
128 Pages
Seven Stories Press
Solito
Solito
A Memoir
Javier Zamora
978-0-593-49808-8
A young poet tells the inspiring story of his migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this “gripping memoir” (NPR) of bravery, hope, and finding family. 
$18.00 US
Jun 06, 2023
Paperback
416 Pages
Hogarth
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