The Use of Sports in YA Literature
“I think basketball is a container for the miraculous.”–Hanif Abdurraqib, author of There’s 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 51ÁÔÆæ 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 51ÁÔÆæ 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 51ÁÔÆæ Middle Level Section Steering Committee This post was written by 51ÁÔÆæ member Brooke Eisenbach, a member …
Build Your Stack: On Windows, Mirrors, and Telescopes
This Build Your Stack post was written by 51ÁÔÆæ member Stephanie Toliver. The September 2021 Council Chronicle includes Toliver’s essay “On …
Bringing Back the Classroom Novel
This blog post was written by 51ÁÔÆæ 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 51ÁÔÆæ member Shelby Boehm. “What 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 Ryan Douglass. This blog post is part of Build Your Stack,® a new initiative focused exclusively on …
Teaching LGBTQ History and Activism with Like a Love Story
From the 51ÁÔÆæ LGBTQ Advisory Committee  This post was written by 51ÁÔÆæ members shea martin and Cody Miller, members …
Build Your Stack with ALAN’s 2020 Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award Winners
This post by 51ÁÔÆæ member Bryan Gillis is reprinted with permission from the blog of ALAN, the Assembly on Literature …