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Trade Books for your Courses

Trade Books for your Courses

Trade Books for your Courses

NEW AND NOTEWORTHY TITLES

NEW AND NOTEWORTHY TITLES

For Teachers

Common Core Teacher Guide for Betty Before X by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities.

For Teachers

Common Core Teacher Guide for Better Off Undead by James Preller featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities.

Reading Guide

How much do you know about Charles Darwin? Explore his life as a scientist, husband, and father in the CHARLES AND EMMA reading group guide!

For Teachers

Common Core Teacher Guide for the A is for Elizabeth series by Rachel Vail; illustrations by Paige Keiser featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities.

For Teachers

In ELSEWHERE, Liz Hall finds herself growing up… while getting younger? Discuss this funny book about grief and loss with the Teacher guide based on Gabrielle Zevin’s YA novel.

For Teachers

A lonely girl, a cantankerous talking rat, and a nanny who is doing very, very bad things—discuss these fabulous characters with the EMMY AND THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING RAT Teacher guide!

For Teachers

Common Core Teacher Guide for the Epic Fails series by Ben Thompson and Erik Slader featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities.

For Teachers

The first book ever written by an escaped modern slave.

For Teachers

Common Core Teacher Guide for Finding Serendipity and A Week Without Tuesdays by Angelica Banks featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities.

For Teachers

Common Core Teacher Guide for Foward Me Back to You by Mitali Perkins featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities.

Common Core Teacher Guide for Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities.

Common Core Teacher Guide for How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities.

Georgina Hayes may be homeless, but she's not hopeless. Figure out how Georgina sees right when everything seems wrong in the HOW TO STEAL A DOG discussion guide!

A boy's struggles propel him toward becoming an American hero—The New York Times bestseller, SEAL Team Six, now for a new generation.

First-hand, human stories of hope, resilience, determination, and family: a call to see the world's children as our own, by the President and CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.

I Capture the Castle tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle.

The classic novel about a young woman's struggle against madness, now a Holt Paperback, with a new afterword by the author.

For Teachers

The classic novel about a young woman's struggle against madness, now a Holt Paperback, with a new afterword by the author.

A deeply compelling mix of high school drama and page-turning mystery that asks profound questions about family, truth, and love

An emotional, full-hearted teen novel about love, loss, and mental health from award-winning author, Gae Polisner.

Common Core Teacher Guide for In the Shadow of Liberty by Kenneth C. Davisv featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities.

Common Core Teacher Guide for Is It Night or Day? by Fern Schumer Chapman featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities.

Common Core Teacher Guide for the books of Jason Chin featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities. Titles featured include Gravity, Redwoods, Coral Reefs, and Island.

Common Core Teacher Guide for the Jigsaw Jones Series by James Preller featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities.

Common Core Teacher Guide for the Joey Pigza Series by Jack Gantos featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities.

Common Core Teacher Guide for the books of Katherine Roy featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities. Titles featured include Neighborhood Sharks and How to Be an Elephant.

Common Core Teacher Guide for the books of Laura Vaccaro Seeger featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities. Featured titles include I Used to Be Afraid, Bully, Walter Was Worried, First the Egg, Lemons Are Not Red, One Boy, Black? White! Day? Night! A Book of Opposites, What If?, Green, and the Dog and Bear series.

Common Core Teacher Guide for the books of Laurie Keller featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities. Featured titles including Do Unto Otters, Birdy’s Smile Book, Open Wide, The Scrambled State of America, The Scrambled States of America Talent Show and the Arnie the Donught series.

For Teachers

A gripping and incredibly important story about a tight-knit town torn apart by a vicious hate crime.

For Teachers

Common Core Teacher Guide for Light It Up by Kekla Magoon featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities.

In Lobizona, bestselling author Romina Garber weaves together Argentine folklore and what it means to be illegal in a timely, intimate, and emotionally powerful narrative.

Common Core Teacher Guide for Max Books Series by Kate Banks; illustrations by Boris Kulikov including discussion questions and common core aligned activities.

Common Core Teacher Guide for Middle-Grade Graphic Novels featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities. Featured titles include Laika, Science Comics: Dinosaurs, Science Comics: Coral Reefs, Giants Beware!, Dragons Beware!, Astronaut Acadamy: Zero Gravity, Astronaut Academy: Re-Entry, The Nameless City, the Zita the Spacegirl series, The Unsinkable Walker Bean, Battling Boy, Robot Dreams, and Secret Coders.

Common Core Teacher Guide for More Deadly Than War by Kenneth C. Davis featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities.

Mike Ritland grew from a skinny, bullied child to a member of our nation’s most elite SEAL teams and trainer of world’s most highly skilled K9 warriors. Discuss his story with the NAVY SEAL DOGS Teacher guide.

Common Core Teacher Guide for Nowhere Boy by Katherine Marsh featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities.

The myths of Ancient Greece shine a bright light onto one of the world’s oldest known civilizations. Go through the tragic, dramatic, and epic lives of the Greek gods in the OLYMPIANS Teacher guide!

Reading Guide

HERA is the queen of the Gods and Goddesses of the Pantheon! Discuss her life and the heroes who won her favor with this reading group guide!

For Teachers

SIMON VS. THE HOMO SAPIENS AGENDA meets CLUELESS in this boy-meets-boy spin on Grease.

For Teachers

Common Core Teacher Guide for the books of Peter Sis featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities. Featured titles include The Pilot and the Little Prince, The Tree of Life, The Wall, Starry Messenger, Tibet Through the Red Box, and the Madlenka Books.

Talk through the story of an eleven-year-old boy's immigration experience, his annoying little brother, and their cake-baking hijinks with the PIE IN THE SKY discussion guide!

For Teachers

Common Core Teacher Guide for Pie in the Sky by Remy Lai featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities.

Common Core Teacher Guide for Potato Pants! by Laurie Keller featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities.

For Teachers

Common Core Teacher Guide for Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities.

For Teachers

In the summer of 1972, danger began knocking on doors all over China. Reflect on the compelling story about a girl growing up during the reign of Chairman Mao with the REVOLUTION IS NOT A DINNER PARTY discussion guide!

Common Core Teacher Guide for the Rip and Red series by Phil Bildner featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities.

For Teachers

Showcase your voice and find out ways to take action with Macmillan’s Tips and Tricks for Community Engagement!

For Teachers

Make reading even more fun with Macmillan’s tips for hosting a successful storytime!

For Teachers

A serial-like podcast pieces clues about a missing girl on a journey of revenge. Talk activithrough this riveting YA novel with the SADIE discussion guide!

For Teachers

Common Core Teacher Guide for Secret Soldiers by Keely Hutton featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities.

For Teachers

Common Core Teacher Guide for the Shadow and Bone Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities.

For Teachers

Common Core Teacher Guide for Soldier Boy by Keely Hutton featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities.

For Teachers

James Sveck, a sophisticated, vulnerable young man with a deep appreciation for the world and no idea how to live in it. Talk through his memorable story with the SOMEDAY THIS PAIN WILL BE USEFUL TO YOU discussion guide!

Common Core Teacher Guide for Speak: Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities.

For Teachers

Common Core Teacher Guide for Stay Where You Are & Then Leave by John Boyne featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities.

For Teachers

Stonewall's Gold is an adventure story for readers of all ages in the classic tradition of Treasure Island and The Red Badge of Courage.

For Teachers

A young soprano enrolls in a remote music academy where nothing, not even her mysterious young vocal coach, is as it seems.

For Teachers

Common Core Teacher Guide for Survivors Club by Michael Bornstein and Debbie Bornstein Holinstat featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities.

For Teachers

Common Core Teacher Guide for picture books by Tanya Lee Stone featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities. Featured titles include Who Says Women Can’t Be Computer Programmers, Who Says Women Can’t Be Doctors, Pass Go and Collect 200, The House That Jane Built, and Elizabeth Leads the Way.

One moment thrust two teenagers into the spotlight and changed both of their lives forever. Reflect on the riveting nonfiction book about race, class, crime, and punishment with THE 57 BUS discussion questions!

Reading Guide

No one knows Jenna Fox, not even her. Talk through this fascinating novel with discussion questions based on THE ADORATION OF JENNA FOX!

On a bright and beautiful spring day, a pig strikes up an unexpected friendship with a bone. Explore this classic picture book with THE AMAZING BONE Teacher guide!

Common Core Teacher Guide for The Boys Who Challenged Hilter by Phillip Hoose featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities.

For Teachers

A dazzling novel about a young teenager's rebellion from the polygamist cult that would have her become the seventh wife to her 60-year-old uncle.

Common Core Teacher Guide for The Courage Test by James Preller featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities.

Reflect on the life of budding naturalist Calpurnia Tate with discussion questions based on the work of Jacqueline Kelly.

Common Core Discussion Guide for The Girl Who Could Fly and The Boy Who Knew Everything by Victoria Forester featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities.

For Teachers

A speculative YA thriller in the vein of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Power.

Common Core Teacher Guide for The Graham Cracker Plot by Shelley Tougas featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities.

Common Core Teacher Guide for The Haunting of Falcon House by Eugene Yelchin featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities.

Common Core Teacher Guide for The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe; translated by Lilit Thwaites featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities.

In the midst of world-changing tragedy, how do we carry on with our day-to-day living? Reflect on these poignant questions with THE MEMORY OF THINGS discussion guide!

For Teachers

The powerful story of two teenagers finding friendship, comfort, and first love in the days following 9/11 as their fractured city tries to put itself back together.

Common Core Teacher Guide for The Port Chicago 50 by Steve Sheinkin featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities.

Common Core Teacher Guide for The Stead Collection by Philip C. Stead and Erin E. Stead featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities. Featured titles include Lenny & Lucy, Special Delivery, Sebastian and the Balloon, Hello, My Name is Ruby, If You Want to See a Whale, Bear Has a Story to Tell, And Then It’s Spring, A Home for Bird, Jonathan and the Big Blue Boat, A Sick Day for Amos McGee, and Creamed Tuna Fish and Peas on Toast.

Common Core Teacher Guide for The Summer of Owen Todd by Tony Abbott featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities.

Common Core Teacher Guide for The Treehouse Series by Andy Griffiths; illustrations by Terry Denton featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities.

Common Core Teacher Guide for Torpedoed by Deborah Heiligman featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities.

Common Core Teacher Guide for Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt featuring discussion questions and common core aligned activities.

A modern The Color Purple, UPSTATE is an absolutely stunning, powerful coming of age novel filled with tragedy, struggle, love and triumph.

Discussion Guide

From an extraordinary new YA talent comes a debut novel about a girl who turns to boys—until she finally learns to lean on herself.

Common Core Teacher Guide for several books by Watt Key including Alabama Moon, Dirt Road Home, Fourmile, Terror at Bottle Creek, and Hideout

An unsparing--yet hopeful--account of what it means to grow up in Jerusalem today as told through the candid exchange of letters between a Palestinian teenager and an Israeli teenager

An unsparing--yet hopeful--account of what it means to grow up in Jerusalem today as told through the candid exchange of letters between a Palestinian teenager and an Israeli teenager

Common Core Teacher Guide for discussing the 1999 National Book Award winner WHEN ZACHARY BEAVER CAME TO TOWN.