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2025 Summer Blog Series: Margarita Engle

July 29, 2025 No Comments

Let young people reach their own answers to the question: how does this poem make you feel?

2025 Summer Blog Series: Alan Gratz

July 22, 2025 2 Comments

Teachers and parents often tell me that my novels are great for getting reluctant readers to love books. I have a lot of strategies for keeping even the most reluctant of readers on the edges of their seats.

2025 Summer Blog Series: Jolene Gutierrez

July 15, 2025 1 Comment

Author and school librarian Jolene Gutierrez shares her best tips for encouraging young learners to read. To start, she helps them find books that feel comfortable for them.

2025 Summer Blog Series: Pam Munoz Ryan

July 8, 2025 1 Comment

Avi’s 2025 Summer Blog Series Pam Muñoz Ryan From Avi: As I have for the last three summers, (summer of 2024, summer of 2023, summer of 2022) I’ve invited 13 admired authors to write for my blog for the next three months. I hope you’ll tune in each Tuesday to see who answered this year’s question,

2025 Summer Blog Series: Suzanne Supplee

July 1, 2025 No Comments

Having been a high school and middle school writing and English teacher for decades, I’ve had an up-close view of students and their reading habits. I’ve taught kids who couldn’t stop reading. There were also students who proudly told me, “I hate to read.”

2025 Summer Blog Series: Dr. Padma Venkatraman

June 24, 2025 No Comments

As head teacher of a small school in England and as a volunteer working with children at an “asylum seekers center” in Germany, I created a safe harbor environment, where children could share the joy of reading together, without judgment.

2025 Summer Blog Series: Gary Schmidt

June 17, 2025 1 Comment

I was impressed and thrilled by the idea that one of our teachers was composing his own music and sending it in to become a published piece. I had never met anyone who would dare to do such a thing — he was that serious, that committed about his art.