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These books can serve as resources to help us move beyond tokens and icons to a deeper understanding of our history and its legacy.
Stories can facilitate dialogue and promote healthy communication around this difficult topic, and help to foster empathy and understanding.
These books explore the painful history of American slavery — a necessity, if we’re to understand and reckon with present-day racism.
Reading books with environmental themes can help tweens understand how their individual choices have consequences for the planet, its animals, and even other people.
The best books profoundly change us. Like Wonder, these books push us toward greater empathy, compassion, and acceptance of differences.
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Throughout Hands Up! is the image of a Black girl who is life personified. She matters every single day, 24/7. Her pain, her joy, and her being are important.
Download and print this free Educator’s Guide filled with discussion questions and activities that help students explore themes like empathy, compassion, and inclusion through middle grade stories.
When Susin Nielsen began setting pen to paper, she had no idea just how “of the moment” her new middle grade novel, No Fixed Address, would be in 2018.
Nonfiction books about activism can help inspire and support young adult readers who are interested in getting involved in their own communities and beyond.
What is a home? Is it a place, a feeling, or something else? These are questions that Mae Respicio’s The House That Lou Built and Melissa Sarno’s Just Under the Clouds — two middle grade novels that approach serious themes and big dreams with empathy and compassion — explore in depth.
I asked real-life teachers to share tips for reflecting with students on what they hear in the news. Here’s what they suggested.
