The New York Times bestselling memoir has now been adapted for young adults! Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to ever be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, chronicles her life story and her extraordinary path to becoming a jurist on America’s highest court in this inspiring, intimate memoir. 

This guide supports readers who are invited into Justice Jackson’s life, learning about her cultural identity, background, family, career, and ascent to the Supreme Court.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Long Way Down comes a powerful print adaptation of the acclaimed, award-winning audiobook Soundtrack—a stirring story of music, friendship, and finding your voice in 2000s New York City.

Soundtrack was published as an original audiobook with fullcast narration and original music as well as a young adult novel. Both formats are uniquely structured, creating an experience that helps readers visualize the characters and setting. As students read the book, listening to select chapters or the whole book can provide wider access and engagement. Young people will gain insight into the interior lives of the characters who navigate New York City, an environment bustling with a cacophony of noises, and come together as musicians to become the soundtrack of their city. This guide includes discussion questions that are organized by interconnected themes, as well as activities and topics for further exploration.

Adapted from Clint Smith’s #1 New York Times bestselling and universally acclaimed How the Word Is Passed, this must-read narrative takes readers to historical sites across America, exploring the legacy of slavery to help readers make sense of our nation’s past and present, and be better stewards of their own future.

Taking into consideration the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Key Concepts of the Teaching Hard History K-12 Framework for Teaching American Slavery and the National Council for the Social Studies College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards, this guide includes flexible, inquiry-based activities and critical thinking discussion and exploration opportunities that build upon students’ skills.

The I, Witness book series offers a unique opportunity for young readers to listen to and learn from the voices of young people impacted by injustices. Further, each book provides opportunities for young readers to deepen their understanding of what equity means by considering questions such as: Who should be centered in the work of justice? What does it mean to advocate on behalf of others? Who are the changemakers of society?

This educators’ guide includes recommendations for table setting—the work that is necessary before reading and discussing the I, Witness nonfiction book series with students, as well as teaching suggestions for work that can support students during and after they read.

All You Have To Do is an eye-opening novel that explores the lives of two characters and two critical moments in history, separated by almost three decades. The purpose of this educator’s guide is to support students as scholars, researchers, and, as educator Ernest Morell states, “producers and consumers of knowledge.” This guide engages young readers as knowledge-holders and supports their thinking about the book and the world. Educators and caregivers are encouraged to guide students in discourse and collective meaning-making that supports them in developing a deepened understanding of the systemic racism of the past and how it thrives in the present. It is through such reading and discourse that students can develop the tools they’ll need to become agents of change who work to disrupt oppression in all of its forms.

Warrior Princess. That’s what Nigeria Jones’s father calls her. He has raised her as part of the Movement, a Black separatist group based in Philadelphia. Nigeria is homeschooled and vegan and participates in traditional rituals to connect her and other kids from the group to their ancestors.

Today is a time of great disruption and, hopefully, change. People around the world are finding their voices and using them to speak up for what they believe in or to discuss their experiences. Children and teens are among them, reckoning with unfolding events that greatly affect them and adjusting to new schedules and realities. Kids are eager to discuss and share ideas, to ask questions and learn from new sets of circumstances.

Today is a time of great disruption and, hopefully, change. People around the world are finding their voices and using them to speak up for what they believe in or to discuss their experiences. Children and teens are among them, reckoning with events unfolding that greatly affect them, and adjusting to new schedules and realities. Kids are eager to discuss and share ideas, to ask questions and learn from new sets of circumstances.

IN UNSPEAKABLE, author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide young readers with the unsettling truths about the history of the United States and the impact of white supremacy and racism. Too often educators and caregivers believe that children are too young for these truths about race and racism, when in reality, they have hardly been

a secret. As truth seekers, children are always looking to make sense of the world around them.

In The Black Friend, Frederick Joseph writes that the purpose of this book is to help white people
actively work to solve “problems created and perpetuated by white people” (p. 2). Therefore, this
book doesn’t just benefit white students. It is also beneficial for white educators.