Featured resources from TeachingBooks.
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January 2025
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Get Ready for Award Season with TeachingBooks!
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It's book award season! As the American Library Association announces winners and honorees at the end of this month, TeachingBooks is here for you. Dive into TeachingBooks' complete collection of more than
150 national book awards and distinctions.
- Filter awards by your interests, including: grade level, curricular area, cultural experience, and genre
- Explore an additional 400+ state and provincial reading programs (Pro tip: search by your state or province name to hone in)
And just for fun, TeachingBooks always maintains this collection of Recent Book Award Winners & Honorees, where we display for you the titles that most recently won each national book award.
- Enjoy more than 21,000 resources for these current titles
- Play concentration with these beautiful covers
- Sort to see titles that won the most awards
Enjoy celebrating these awards and distinguished titles. And know that throughout this award season, TeachingBooks will be updating our lists so that you can have dynamic connections to these books and their creators.
Let us know how you're using TeachingBooks this award season!
Our best,
The TeachingBooks Team
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Featured Booklist: Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts Award, 1997-2024
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Dive into the wonders of language in your classroom or library! These titles for a wide range of ages cover word play, word origins, unique language and style, and even invite reader response for interactive storytimes!
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Booklist
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Booklists on TeachingBooks
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Leverage Your Lists
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State award lists, account curriculum lists—even your own custom lists can be helpful instructional tools. Discover how to take advantage of the many resources included within each list.
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Wednesday, February 19, 12:00 CT
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Behind the Books: "Writing Cultural Bridges: Turning Family Traditions into Universal Stories"
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Author Suma Subramaniam explores South Indian culture in many of her books. Discover why she chose to write about a holiday, a little background on the South Indian harvest festival Pongal, and how she wove universal childhood experiences into her new novel, V. Malar: Greatest Host of All Time (Candlewick, 2024).
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Guest Author posts
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Meet-the-Author Recording: The Story of Snow: The Science of Winter's Wonder with Mark Cassino
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If you're in the Northern Hemisphere, winter is here! To celebrate the season, listen to author Mark Cassino describe his process of capturing images of snow crystals and view an example from his 2010 Outstanding Science Trade Books title, The Story of Snow: The Science of Winter's Wonder (Chronicle, 2009).
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Listen To This Recording
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Browse all TeachingBooks Meet-the-Author Recordings
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Discover Sora: Where Students Read
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Save time selecting books for students of all ages by subscribing to this service of unlimited, simultaneous use ebooks and audiobooks to automatically add to your Sora collection. Then, easily increase engagement and deepen comprehension for these titles with resources from TeachingBooks.
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Learn About Sora
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Explore the TeachingBooks Sora Collections page
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Dan SaSuWeh on Stealing Little Moon: The Legacy of the American Indian Boarding Schools
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Author Dan SaSuWeh discusses his latest book, Stealing Little Moon: The Legacy of the American Indian Boarding Schools (Scholastic, 2024), a work chronicling his personal journey and the experiences of other Native American students who survived the harsh realities of boarding schools across the nation.
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Virtual Book Tour posts
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Lisa Stringfellow on Teaching and Writing
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Author Lisa Stringfellow shares her classroom practice of guiding students to craft memory poems, connecting their personal experiences to broader themes in literature. Those themes of love and loss are reflected in her middle grade novel, Kingdom of Dust (HarperCollins, 2024).
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Teachers, By Teachers posts
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Watch Emily Jenkins Compete in the Author-Fan Face-off
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This month's Face-off features mega-fan group the Toughy Buffaloes and author Emily Jenkins answering questions about Toys Go Out (Penguin Random House, 2006). In the first book of the Toys Trilogy, readers follow the adventures of three toys who are best friends and belong to the Little Girl with the high bed and fluffy pillows.
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Face-off
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Toys Go Out
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Reader's Theater Takes Center Stage
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Revisit a favorite blog post featuring Reader's Theater Scripts! Experience the joy of Reader's Theater as words leap from the script and take center stage. Consider these five ways to use scripts in classrooms and library programming.
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TeachingBooks in Action posts
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Contests & Giveaways
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Check out our January Contests & Giveaways, accompanied by multimedia resources!
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- Wash Day with Mama by Monica Mikai (Penguin Random House, 2025)
- The Secret of Honeycake by Kimberly Newton Fusco (Penguin Random House, 2025)
- And more!
See the January
Contests & Giveaways on our blog
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