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How I Live Now
Meg Rosoff

How I Live Now

Genre:
Fiction
Age Level:
YA

Daisy is a spoiled American teen with plans to spend the summer in England with her aunt and cousins at their farmhouse. While her aunt is away, an unnamed country invades England, and soldiers take over the farmhouse. Lacking adult guidance, Daisy must stop thinking of herself and take responsibility for her young cousins. This novel won both the Printz Award (U.S.) and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award (U.K.).

Kathleen Bulloch

How to Modify Your Teaching for Students With Low Organizational Skills

Classrooms today have students with many special needs, and teachers are often directed to “modify as necessary.” The following article takes the mystery out of modifying your teaching strategies with concrete examples that focus on students’ organizational skills.

Outside picture of the BCSC school building
About Teaching Reading, School-Wide Reform

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.

Coordinated Campaign for Learning Disabilities

How Parents Can Be Advocates for Their Children

Parents are often the best educational advocates for their children, especially children with a learning disability. The Coordinated Campaign for Learning Disabilities (CCLD) has developed the following tips to help parents champion their child.
Reading Is Fundamental

How Parents Can Encourage Teens to Read

You know that reading is important and you want to make sure that your teenager grows into adulthood with all the skills he or she needs to succeed. The following list offers suggestions for encouraging your teens to read.
How It Went Down
Kekla Magoon

How It Went Down

Genre:
Fiction
Age Level:
YA

When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson dies from two gunshot wounds, his community is thrown into an uproar. Tariq was black. The shooter, Jack Franklin, is white. In the aftermath of Tariq’s death, everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events line up. 

How Do You Get a 12-Year-Old Boy to Read?

I have a 12-year-old son who hates to read much himself, but loves to be read to. He will read comics on his own, but that’s about all. What do you suggest to get him to read more?

It can be tough to get a 12-year-old boy to pick up a book beyond school. I know from both personal and professional experience! My son liked (and still likes) stories, but there was a time when he acted like books were strange and hateful objects. So, when he was not picking up books to read with his eyes, I started slipping audiobooks in during any car trip.