Skip to main content
long hall with blue lockers

Themed Booklists

School Shootings: Trying to Understand the Unthinkable

Helping readers find empathy, sympathy, and understanding are lofty goals for YA authors who delve into the tragedy of school shootings. Told from multiple perspectives, this collection brings together many voices helping young adults process the unthinkable. 

Outside picture of the BCSC school building

About Teaching Reading

How One School District Transformed Its Community

Through Universal Design for Learning and a model of inclusivity, the Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation helps all students, including students with autism, succeed together.

Last Cuentista book cover

Themed Booklists

Latinx Pride

In this booklist, you’ll find a range of titles — young adult novels by award-winning Hispanic-American authors, bilingual poetry, biography, memoir — celebrating Latino culture and examining the immigrant experience.

Up With AdLit: History Edition

Outline of MLK Jr. with a quote from his 1947 speech beside it.

 

Learn more about engaging students in Unlocking the Past and inspiring an interest in civic engagement.

Book Nook

Young woman standing in front of white brick wall

Looking to add to your MG/YA bookshelf? Here’s what we’re reading this month. Click on the book cover to learn more. Happy reading! 

Read and Tweak

White background with yellow lower border and title of book in black

We hope you will read along with us and consider tweaks you can make in your instructional practice. Click on the book cover to learn more.

An owl wearing a bowtie holds a quiz book

How AdLit Are You?

Which of the following novels is rooted Greek Mythology?

Mama says I always liked words; that I was talking before I could walk, and reading and writing before I even got to kindergarten. For some reason, I like poems ... I like making words fit together like puzzle pieces, and coming up with the perfect rhyme.

excerpt from Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero by Kelly J. Baptist

AdLit is made possible by a generous grant from

National Education Association (NEA)

The Grateful American Foundation and AdLit are proud partners.

Grateful American Foundation