6 College Novels for Teenagers
Steph recently spent a week on a college campus in Massachusetts, and it brought back a lot of fond memories:…
YA Books
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Exciting YA Books about Sports for Olympics Fans
Play the first few seconds of Leo Arnaud’s “Bugler’s Dream,” and we’ve already got chills running down our spines, especially…
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6 YA Fantasy Books You Need to Recommend on First Chapter Fridays
After years of requiring our AP Lit students to select books of “literary merit” for their independent reading novels, we…
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A Benefit of First Chapter Friday Nearpod Activities
If you’re a secondary English teacher, and especially if you’re at all connected to other teachers online (or a follower…
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8 Books for High Schoolers with a Strong Sense of Justice
On the most basic level, our students are allll about justice: “not fair” has been part of their vocabulary since…
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First Chapter Friday for High School Students
Trying to make high school students excited about reading often feels like a Sisyphean task. When we started recommending books on “First Chapter Fridays,” we put a lot of effort into finding books we had read and enjoyed or that we thought our students would like. Most weeks, these recommendations seemed to go in one ear and out the other . . .
