Do you ever read something and think to yourself, "How did I not know about this?"  That's how I felt when I first heard abo...

  I fell in love with Salt to the Sea a while before I decided to create a unit for it.  Sixth graders love reading about World War II and t...

 I was looking for a good historical fiction book this summer and Impossible Escape  by Steve Sheinkin came onto my radar.  It is good.  Ve...

  A few weeks ago,  I shared books for Team Deep Ocean. This week is for those of you who look up instead of down, the teachers whose studen...

 I find teachers tend to fall into one of these two - and for my Team Deep Ocean folks, here is a list of books I think your upper elementar...

  Who is Malala Yousafzai? I had heard about Malala Yousafzai for some years before I read her autobiography, which was published more than ...

  Mia Tang runs a motel, writes letters to fight injustice, and dreams in two languages. The first time I book talked this book, a student a...

The math that sent John Glenn into orbit was checked by hand.  By a Black woman named Katherine Johnson. That's not a footnote. That...