By Tim Beedle The creators of Diana: Princess of the Amazons want kids to know that even Wonder Woman had trouble making friends. As one of the most popular superheroes in the world, that may seem hard to imagine, but let’s not forget that Diana grew up on an island where she was the only child. Loneliness

Independent reading provides students the opportunity not only to supplement their existing literature and language assignments, but also to temporarily escape the anxieties of our current reality. From George Takei’s graphic memoir They Called Us Enemy to John Green’s Turtles All the Way Down, Penguin Random House has extensive offerings for your students. Click here

Independent reading provides students the opportunity not only to supplement their existing literature and language assignments, but also to temporarily escape the anxieties of our current reality. From Adib Khorram’s poignant YA novel Darius the Great Is Not Okay to Seth Grahame-Smith’s cannibalistic take on Jane Austen in Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies, Penguin Random House

PRH Education was thrilled to host its inaugural High School Teacher Advisory Board Meeting on February 18th at the Penguin Random House headquarters. The nine board members—six women and three men—hailed from a range of geographic locations, from Southern California to Central Illinois to the Bronx in Manhattan. The board included six English and social

Our Penguin Young Reader division has launched season 2 of the We Are YA podcast! This season is filled with short episodes with different YA authors talking about how they’re doing during the time of COVID-19, as well as what they’re working on, and what they’re reading and watching! Be sure to share this with

Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker has been chosen for Oprah’s Book Club.   “This is a riveting true story of an American family that reads like a medical detective journey,” said Oprah Winfrey. “It reveals the shame, denial, shock, confusion and misunderstanding of mental illness at a

“What has made all of this distance learning work, is how responsive academic publishers and database companies to the needs of so many of us trying to work with our students and to keep the learning happening. I’ve had four different student research requests this morning and, for the most part, I’ve been able to

I wrote An African American and Latinx History of the United States because I believe that history has an indispensable role to play at a time when many of our leading politicians are again invoking anti-Latinx and anti-Black hatred in order to garner votes. I was born in 1964. I grew up in the 1970s, a

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

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

Interested in book recommendations for your Advanced Placement® courses? We’ve put together a series of curated collections for your browsing pleasure!    As you explore, remember that you can download each of these collections as PDFs, Excel files, or even as a cost proposal request form.                   

“As a high school English teacher and the father two elementary-aged daughters, the biggest challenge for me right now is trying to keep up with students while simultaneously trying to keep up with my own children. The days are stressful, but my wife (also a teacher) and I do a good job alternating between homeschooling