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Educator Guide for

Classroom-based guides appropriate for schools and colleges provide pre-reading and classroom activities, discussion questions connected to the curriculum, further reading, and resources.

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First-Year Reading (FYR) Guide for

Designed specifically to be used by faculty or program facilitators for college First-Year Common Reading programs.

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Discussion Guide for

Provides questions, discussion topics, suggested reading lists, introductions and/or author Q&As, which are intended to enhance reading groups’ experiences.

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  • WINNER | 2011
    Library of Virginia Literary Award for Nonfiction
  • WINNER | 2011
    Audie Awards
  • WINNER | 2011
    Chicago Public Library and the Chicago Public Library Foundation 21st Century Award
  • WINNER | 2011
    National Academy of Sciences Book Award
  • WINNER | 2011
    Powells 2011 Puddly Award for Nonfiction
  • WINNER | 2011
    Audie Award for Best Nonfiction Audiobook
  • WINNER | 2011
    Ambassador Book Award in American Studies
  • WINNER | 2010
    Goodreads.com Readers Choice Award for Best Debut Author and Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
  • WINNER | 2010
    Medical Journalists' Association Open Book Award, General Readership, Non-Fiction
  • WINNER | 2010
    Wellcome Trust Book Prize
  • WINNER | 2010
    2010 Indie Lit Award for NonFiction
  • WINNER | 2010
    Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize
  • WINNER | 2010
    Bookbrowse.com Diamond Award for Best Book
  • WINNER | 2010
    Audie Awards
  • WINNER | 2010
    American Association for the Advancement of Science's Young Adult Science Book Award

The Official Book Trailer

Guides

Educator Guide for

Classroom-based guides appropriate for schools and colleges provide pre-reading and classroom activities, discussion questions connected to the curriculum, further reading, and resources.

(Please note: the guide displayed here is the most recently uploaded version; while unlikely, any page citation discrepancies between the guide and book is likely due to pagination differences between a book’s different formats.)

First-Year Reading (FYR) Guide for

Designed specifically to be used by faculty or program facilitators for college First-Year Common Reading programs.

(Please note: the guide displayed here is the most recently uploaded version; while unlikely, any page citation discrepancies between the guide and book is likely due to pagination differences between a book’s different formats.)

Discussion Guide for

Provides questions, discussion topics, suggested reading lists, introductions and/or author Q&As, which are intended to enhance reading groups’ experiences.

(Please note: the guide displayed here is the most recently uploaded version; while unlikely, any page citation discrepancies between the guide and book is likely due to pagination differences between a book’s different formats.)

Awards

  • WINNER | 2011
    Library of Virginia Literary Award for Nonfiction
  • WINNER | 2011
    Audie Awards
  • WINNER | 2011
    Chicago Public Library and the Chicago Public Library Foundation 21st Century Award
  • WINNER | 2011
    National Academy of Sciences Book Award
  • WINNER | 2011
    Powells 2011 Puddly Award for Nonfiction
  • WINNER | 2011
    Audie Award for Best Nonfiction Audiobook
  • WINNER | 2011
    Ambassador Book Award in American Studies
  • WINNER | 2010
    Goodreads.com Readers Choice Award for Best Debut Author and Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
  • WINNER | 2010
    Medical Journalists' Association Open Book Award, General Readership, Non-Fiction
  • WINNER | 2010
    Wellcome Trust Book Prize
  • WINNER | 2010
    2010 Indie Lit Award for NonFiction
  • WINNER | 2010
    Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize
  • WINNER | 2010
    Bookbrowse.com Diamond Award for Best Book
  • WINNER | 2010
    Audie Awards
  • WINNER | 2010
    American Association for the Advancement of Science's Young Adult Science Book Award

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The Official Book Trailer

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 (García, 2009; García, 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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PRH Education Classroom Libraries

“Books are a students’ passport to entering and actively participating in a global society with the empathy, compassion, and knowledge it takes to become the problem solvers the world needs.” –Laura Robb   Research shows that reading and literacy directly impacts students’ academic success and personal growth. To help promote the importance of daily independent

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