Gwendolyn Harper, author portrait

Gwendolyn Harper

Gwendolyn Harper (translator) won a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a Works in Progress grant from the Robert B. Silvers foundation for Wild Desire and Other Writings. She has an MFA from Brown University.

2024 Middle and High School Collections

The Penguin Random House Education Middle School and High School Digital Collections feature outstanding fiction and nonfiction from the children’s, adult, DK, and Grupo Editorial divisions, as well as publishers distributed by Penguin Random House. Peruse online or download these valuable resources to discover great books in specific topic areas such as: English Language Arts,

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PRH Education High School Collections

All reading communities should contain protected time for the sake of reading. Independent reading practices emphasize the process of making meaning through reading, not an end product. The school culture (teachers, administration, etc.) should affirm this daily practice time as inherently important instructional time for all readers. (NCTE, 2019)   The Penguin Random House High

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PRH Education Translanguaging Collections

Translanguaging is a communicative practice of bilinguals and multilinguals, that is, it is a practice whereby bilinguals and multilinguals use their entire linguistic repertoire to communicate and make meaning (GarcĂ­a, 2009; GarcĂ­a, Ibarra Johnson, & Seltzer, 2017)   It is through that lens that we have partnered with teacher educators and bilingual education experts, Drs.

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Congratulations to the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners!

Each year, the National Book Critics Circle presents awards for the finest books published in English. Here the titles published by Penguin Random House that are among the NBCC Award winners:   Fiction category: My Friends by Hisham Matar (Random House)   Autobiography category: Patriot: A Memoir by Alexei Navalny, translation by Arch Tait with Stephen Dalziel

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