Classroom
Brigid Alverson will write SLJ’s manga column, including coverage of various genres, and what’s popular and why, with recommended titles for tweens and teens.
In this inaugural column, Brigid Alverson offers a sampling of all-ages manga. Engaging stories that don't feel childish, most are good picks for teens and tweens.
High school English teacher Jarred Amato has guided his Nashville students and helped create a national, student-led, grassroots literacy and community service movement around middle grade and YA titles by authors including Kwame Alexander, Nic Stone, and Jason Reynolds.
Few statements are as compelling as “It happened to me.” These powerful graphic novels convey that message.
This month’s column kicks off with some breaking news: Graphic novel publisher First Second Books is launching a line of History Comics.
Our brains are neurologically hardwired for stories, and a story-rich life is one key to building strong social-emotional learning skills.
Rabble rousers and rebels rub shoulders with artists and adventurers in these eminently browsable collective biographies.
New books about women in STEM feature inventors, architects, naturalists, and computer and space scientists.