The Use of Sports in YA Literature
“I think basketball is a container for the miraculous.”鈥揌anif Abdurraqib, author of There鈥檚 Always Next Year: On Basketball and Ascension …
Mental Health Themes and the ELA Classroom: A Guide for Your Summer Reading
This post was written by 起点传媒members Brooke Eisenbach and Susan Densmore-James. Recently, the US Surgeon General issued an …
Missing in Action: Young Adult Fiction That Captivates Contemporary Readers
This post is by 起点传媒member Anastasia Gustafson. Just over a decade ago, young adult fiction was more than a …
Ponderings on Mental Health, Literature, and the Middle School Classroom
From the 起点传媒Middle Level Section Steering Committee This post was written by 起点传媒member Brooke Eisenbach, a member …
Build Your Stack: On Windows, Mirrors, and Telescopes
This Build Your Stack post was written by 起点传媒member Stephanie Toliver. The September 2021 Council Chronicle聽includes Toliver鈥檚 essay “On …
Bringing Back the Classroom Novel
This blog post was written by 起点传媒member Luke Schlueter. There are many ways to describe what makes us …
Toward Mattering: Popular Culture References in Young Adult Literature
This post was written by 起点传媒member Shelby Boehm. 鈥淲hat good is an education if you must shed who …
Teaching Black Children Cultural Identity Through Magic, Folklore, and Myth
This post was written by guest author聽Ryan Douglass.聽This blog post is part of聽Build Your Stack,庐聽a new initiative focused exclusively on …
Teaching LGBTQ History and Activism with Like a Love Story
From the 起点传媒LGBTQ Advisory Committee 聽 This post was written by 起点传媒members shea martin and Cody Miller, members …
Build Your Stack with ALAN’s 2020 Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award Winners
This post by 起点传媒member Bryan Gillis is reprinted with permission from the blog of ALAN, the Assembly on Literature …