Don’t miss these great English Language Arts titles!

Are you teaching English Language Arts? Here are some popular and recent titles from our extensive selection of books for the classroom that are available through the subject lists on our website, which cover American Literature, British and Commonwealth Literature, Comparative & World Literature, Communication, Writing & Composition, and ESL/ELL.   American Literature British and

Read more

Announcing the Michelle Obama Award for Memoir

We are honored to announce the Penguin Random House Creative Writing Awards’ Michelle Obama Award for Memoir. In recognition of Michelle Obama’s long-standing commitment to mentorship and education, as well as her inspiring leadership in encouraging young people to discover the power of telling their own stories, this award grants a college scholarship of $10,000 to one

Read more

Finding Your Place in the World: Lessons for Reading and Writing

As educators, we know how important it is to give students access and opportunity to books that provide “windows, mirrors, and sliding glass doors” (Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop). It’s vital that we support every student and help them address issues they confront both in and out of the classroom. Finding those books and creating lessons

Read more

West Perry High School Students Read & Respond to Mallory Smith’s Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life

Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life is a collection of journal entries by Mallory Smith written over the course of 10 years, beginning at age 15 and ending with her death. Mallory was an intelligent, resilient young woman living with cystic fibrosis, who wrote about invisible and visible illness, mental health, and the challenges those

Read more

The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank’s remarkable diary, a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit, has since become a world classic beloved by generations of students. As of March 2021, all Penguin Random House editions of

Read more

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

Read more