Exploring DK’s Against the Odds and Mount Olympus Mysteries Series

DK’s Against the Odds and Mount Olympus Mysteries Hi-Lo chapter book series for kids ages 10–14+ have a morphology focus and thus provide a vital bridge between decodable and mainstream books. By focusing on suffixes, prefixes, and word roots/bases, these series will improve readers’ spelling, vocabulary, and reading comprehension, and empower them to confidently understand

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Publisher Spotlight: Manga Quest – a new series from TOKYOPOP Learning

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

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Teaching Writing Skills Remotely

John Warner has more than two decades of experience teaching writing, from composition, fiction, and narrative nonfiction to technical and humor writing. But when he sat down to turn his course into his book The Writer’s Practice, he was met with the same challenge teachers find themselves faced with in the wake of the COVID-19

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Now in Paperback: Sabrina & Corina, Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction

Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s debut story collection Sabrina & Corina is now available in paperback wherever books are sold. Spotlighting Latina characters of indigenous ancestry and the land they inhabit in and around the author’s native Denver, Colorado, these short stories take stock of both the challenges these women face—from misogyny to gentrification—and their joy, fiercely claimed

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