Many middle grade readers are falling in love with romance for the first time, but it can sometimes be a challenge to navigate which books are appropriate for this age group. We've gathered up some of our favorite love stories for middle grade and middle school just in time for Valentine's Day!
Start your students off the right way this new year with picture books to grow their Social Emotional Learning. We have a great series of posts from the fabulous Nicole Collier on how to easily build these skills in the classroom and below are just some of our many new picture books that are perfect for storytime, small group learning, and independent reading.
Perfect new children's book, middle grade book, and teen book titles for your school and library releasing on January 14th from HarperCollins Children's Books.
Nonfiction picture books are the perfect way to engage readers at the beginning of new units, build background knowledge, and inspire independent learning. We have a great collection of new nonfiction coming this winter, covering a variety of topics and paired with truly outstanding illustrations.
If you've ever talked to a HarperStacks team member at a conference, you know we love a good cry when we read. This was a book that stopped us all in our tracks (or at least interrupted our to-do list until we finished the whole thing in one sitting). I'm thrilled to get to finally share this one with the world and I think you'll really enjoy sharing it with your readers. Thinking it would be great for book clubs? We thought so too and created a discussion guide to help you out!
A new year is the perfect time to #shakeupyourshelves and we're celebrating Black voices all year long! Below are some of our upcoming titles to excite readers of all ages and interests, including a ballerina biography, some middle grade baseball stories, and a thrilling new novel-in-verse from Ibi Zoboi!
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ibi Zoboi comes her groundbreaking contemporary fantasy debut—a novel in verse based on Caribbean folklore—about the power of inherited magic and the price we must pay to live the life we yearn for.
A Wolf Called Fire is a stand-alone companion novel to the best-selling A Wolf Called Wander. It’s inspired by Wolf 8, a real Yellowstone wolf who was the smallest of his pack and constantly bullied by his bigger brothers.
It's hard to believe that summer is on it's way, but I know I can't wait to feel the warm sun on my face while I read a book by the ocean. Below are a selection of some of the spectacular reads coming this summer from HarperCollins Children's Books. Dive into a good book by requesting an eGalley of your favorites!
Readers of all ages seem to be clamboring for more graphic novels and we have an amazing selection coming this winter! We've got some new #classicsgonegraphic adaptations of favorites, thought provoking contemporary fiction, and action-packed fantasy from Soman Chainani, just to name a few! Scroll through to see which ones need to be added to your shelf. Hint: it might be all of them...
When author Joanna Ho had children, she began looking for Christmas books with Asian characters and found none. So, she decided to write one of her own! Shake Up Your Celebrations this Christmas with this cute and inclusive picture book.
We first met Quag in author Mylisa Larson's Playing Through the Turnaround. Quagmire Tiarello Couldn't Be Better is filled with wry humor and sharp insight that captures the distinctive voice of a young teen forced by his mother’s unstable mental health to recalibrate his outlook and build a new life with found family.
Perfect new children's book, middle grade book, and teen book titles for your school and library releasing on December 3rd from HarperCollins Children's Books.
Perfect new children's book, middle grade book, and teen book titles for your school and library releasing on November 12th from HarperCollins Children's Books.
This November, HarperStacks will be in Boston for the National Council of Teachers of English conference annual conference. We're looking forward to joining with educators, authors, and others to promote new books and build lasting connections.
Visit us at Booth #922 for galley giveaways, author signings, and more!
Perfect new children's book, middle grade book, and teen book titles for your school and library releasing on November 5th from HarperCollins Children's Books.
The picture book They Built Me for Freedom: The Story of Juneteenth and Houston’s Emancipation Park tells the history of a historic park in Houston, Texas that is connected to the origins of the holiday known as Juneteenth—in the park’s own voice. Author Tonya Duncan Ellis sat down with illustrator Jenin Mohammed to discuss their creative processes.
Illustrator Janina Gaudin, also known as Miss Diabetes, reflects on her own journey with type 1 diabetes which began with a self-diagnosis when she read one of the famous books from the Babysitters Club series. She's added her artistic talents to the upcoming picture book biography, It Belongs to the World: Frederick Banting and the Discovery of Insulin written with Lisa Katzenberger.
Perfect new children's book, middle grade book, and teen book titles for your school and library releasing on October 29th from HarperCollins Children's Books.
Jessica Vitalis' own life inspired her historical fiction novel-in-verse, Unsinkable Cayenne, available on October 29. Read on to hear about her story and why she felt it was important to share with middle grade readers today.
Perfect new children's book, middle grade book, and teen book titles for your school and library releasing on October 22nd from HarperCollins Children's Books.
