Great New Books for Your Classroom

By Kaitlyn Spotts | October 3 2024 | GeneralHigh School

Penguin Random House Education is pleased to present a special video highlighting great new titles for high school students. Eileen Becker and Charles Head, specialists in secondary education titles for Penguin Random House, discuss recent books that will engage students and supplement reading curricula.

Watch the video and learn more about the titles discussed below.

 

A Novel
9780385550369

Winner, National Book Award for Fiction

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view.

$28.00 US
Mar 19, 2024
Hardcover
320 Pages
Doubleday

An American Classic Reimagined
9781984857729

A thrilling graphic novel reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that follows Jim, an enslaved man on a journey towards freedom, and his sidekick, Huck, in the antebellum South—from the team behind the Eisner Award–winning The Black Panther Party.

$25.99 US
Oct 15, 2024
Paperback
288 Pages
Ten Speed Graphic

9780553210798

Hilariously picaresque, epic in scope, alive with the poetry and vigor of the American people, Mark Twain’s classic story about a young boy and his journey down the Mississippi was the first great novel to speak in a truly American voice. Influencing subsequent generations of writers—from Sherwood Anderson to Twain’s fellow Missourian, T.S. Eliot, from Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner to J.D. Salinger—Huckleberry Finn is one of the great sources which nourished and still nourishes the literature of America.

$5.95 US
Feb 01, 1981
Mass Market Paperback
320 Pages
Bantam Classics

9780143107323

The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen and a foreword by Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran and The Republic of Imagination.

$9.00 US
Oct 28, 2014
Paperback
400 Pages
Penguin Classics

A Novel of King Arthur
9780735224049

A New York Times Editors’ Choice

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Magicians Trilogy returns with a triumphant reimagining of the King Arthur legend for the new millennium.

$35.00 US
Jul 16, 2024
Hardcover
688 Pages
Viking

A Novel
9780593873359

New York Times Bestseller

The first woman ever admitted to a prestigious order of mages unravels a secret conspiracy that could change the practice of magic forever, in this standalone dark fantasy from the author of The Sword of Kaigen.

$29.99 US
Oct 29, 2024
Hardcover
448 Pages
Del Rey

A Novel
9780593467824

A Booklist Best Book of 2023

Set in the Arab immigrant enclave of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, following three siblings coming of age over the course of one Ramadan.

$17.00 US
May 07, 2024
Paperback
336 Pages
Vintage

An Anthology of New Black Horror
9780593243800

New York Times Bestseller

The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, curates this groundbreaking anthology of all-new stories of Black horror, exploring not only the terrors of the supernatural but the chilling reality of injustice that haunts our nation.

$20.00 US
Sep 24, 2024
Paperback
400 Pages
Random House Trade Paperbacks