Catalogs & Reading Lists

Our newest picture books, middle grade, and young adult titles releasing in 2024

Diverse books for older readers in middle school and high school

Dual language and diverse leveled reading collections in English and Spanish from A to Z+

Here's a starter list to read aloud for grades K–5 during additional special opportunities throughout the year to highlight diverse stories, voices, and creators

Keep young readers and teens immersed in story all summer long these with these appealing fiction and nonfiction titles.

The books featured on this list facilitate and support high quality standards-based instruction of foundational concepts, including: (1) boosting comprehension, (2) enriching vocabulary, (3) understanding story structure, (4) supporting multilingual learners, (5) building background knowledge, and (6) understanding characters’ thoughts and feelings.

Foster a love of books and reading with the young people in your life with this helpful guide.

Honor Asian American and Pacific Islander storytellers and understand this vibrant community's contributions to our society with these incredible books.

High-quality bilingual and Spanish books establish a solid foundation to achieve Spanish literacy or bilingualism while affirming a reader’s identity, culture, and home language.

Black, Indigenous and people of color deserve to see ourselves thrive and to experience the joy of being part of a loving community. This book list reflects the daily lives of children and the joy of play, family and friends, and being themselves!

Celebrate the gender spectrum, family structures, sexuality, identity, and more with these engaging stories featuring relatable children and young people.

These mentor texts feature women historical figures and characters who exhibit independence and determination as they solve problems, strive for their dreams, and achieve their goals.

Want to add anti-racist books to your library but don't know where to start? This collection will help you take the first steps or continue the critical discussions about anti-racism work relevant to your setting.

Civics and civic engagement are crucial to education and to democracy. These books will inspire young people to learn more about all aspects of civics and become effective members of society.

High-Low books provide literacy support through carefully chosen sentence structures, vocabulary, effective text features, illustrations, and compelling stories that align with and appeal to readers' interests.

Lunar New Year celebrations take place in the United States and around the world. Use these books and cross-curricular activities to engage young people with Lunar New Year celebrations (also called the Spring Festival) celebrations.

This guide provides tips and strategies from renowned poet, educator, and literacy advocate Pat Mora about how to use poetry with students in various educational settings and creative ways to make poetry fun and engaging for young people.

Engage young people on the richness, relevancy, and impact of human migration on our shared experiences using these text sets curated in partnership with Re-Imagining Migration.

Encourage activism with these mentor texts modeling proactive behaviors through determined characters and their respective causes.

Pair any curriculum with these Social Emotional Learning (SEL) read-alouds to illustrator successful strategies for tackling challenges and fostering community.

Showing diverse people and communities in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) is critical to inspiring and preparing our next generation of thinkers, leaders, and citizens.

Juneteenth, a blending of the words June and nineteenth, is an annual celebration on June 19th commemorating the end of enslavement in the United States. The books included focus on both accurate history and capturing African American culture and joy.

Discuss the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Civil Rights Movement through present day with these award-winning titles by authors and illustrators from diverse backgrounds. The list is divided into time periods to aid in teaching about Reconstruction and the time periods before and after 1865-1877.

This book list focuses on enslavement and enslaved people in the US. These award-winning titles support teaching this nuanced, under-taught period of this country's history.

These recommended books showcase child protagonists who cope with trauma in a variety of ways and provide young people the opportunity to discuss trauma through the lens of relatable and engaging characters.