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Scholastic Press is proud to publish COMING UP CUBAN: RISING PAST CASTRO'S SHADOW by 15‐time Emmy® Award winner and Pura Belpré honoree Sonia Manzano (on sale August 2, 2022). Offering a fresh look at and examining the impact of the 1959 Cuban Revolution, this unforgettable and crucial story addresses the inner lives and growth of four children from very different walks of life as they experience...

Civil rights icon, Ambassador Andrew Young and his daughter, Paula Young Shelton, deliver a powerful story about a special day in Andrew’s childhood that changed him forever. Written for kids, Just Like Jesse Owens is a story of race relations in the 1930s South and is illustrated by bestselling Caldecott Honor winner Gordon C. James. The 90-year-old Andrew Young shares the teaching of his parents...

With every throw, tackle, and kick, numbers are being calculated on the football field. National Geographic Kids and ESPN teamed up to create It’s a Numbers Game! Football to teach kids the way that digits and math factor into football, from the countless statistics used to measure an individual player’s performance to the numbers used in defensive formations. NFL superstar Patrick Mahomes wrote t...

The Blue Bloods are back, and they are more fanged and fabulous than ever. Melissa de la Cruz is the #1 New York Times, #1 Publisher’s Weekly and #1 IndieBound bestselling author of many critically acclaimed and award-winning novels for readers of all ages including the Blue Bloods series. Within New York City’s most elite families, there lurks a secret society of celebrated Americans whose ancest...

Blade Breaker, the highly anticipated sequel to the instant #1 New York Timesbestselling Realm Breaker, features breathless action, deadly twists, and gripping magic, making it perfect for fans of Garth Nix and J. R. R. Tolkien. In Blade Breaker -- from bestselling author Victoria Aveyard (whose Red Queen series has sold more than 3 million copies) -- a divided world must rally, an unstoppable ene...

In her new book, Ultimate Book of the Future: Incredible, Ingenious, and Totally Real Tech That Will Change Life as You Know It, Author Stephanie Drimmer shares exciting advances in cool high-tech stuff and shows us how scientists are working today to solve problems for a better tomorrow. Taking kids on a fascinating journey of discovery, Drimmer, a longtime writer for National Geographic Kids mag...

Author, and self proclaimed reluctant reader, Ryan Jacobson knows firsthand how hard it can be to keep young readers engaged these days. Reading is absolutely fundamental and that’s why Ryan has changed the game by allowing readers to choose their own paths throughout these exciting middle grade novels. The Can You Survive? series aims to keep young readers on their toes with high-interest plots a...

In THE LAST FALLEN MOON, we meet again with the protagonist Riley Oh, who has come to realize that life as the Godrealm’s last fallen star is not all it’s cracked up to be. Her new divine heritage doesn’t even come with cool magical powers; half of her friends and family (including her parents) can’t remember her; and to top it all off, the entire Gom clan is mad at her for killing the Cave Bear G...

Prince Jones is the guy with all the answers—or so it seems. After all, at seventeen, he has his own segment on Detroit’s popular hip-hop show, Love Radio, where he dishes out advice to the brokenhearted. Prince has always dreamed of becoming a DJ and falling in love. But being the main caretaker for his mother, who has multiple sclerosis, and his little brother means his dreams will stay just tha...

A quiet revolution has been underway in recent years, with study after study revealing substantial same-sex sexual behavior in animals. In the new YA title Queer Ducks (and Other Animals), two-time National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Eliot Schrefer presents a well-researched exploration of queer behavior in the animal world—from albatrosses to bonobos to clownfish to...

In WHAT CAN I SAY, author Catherine Newman provides a framework for parents to help their kids learn more about relationships, empathy, respect, friendship, and communication. From how to be inclusive, listen, give advice, argue, stick up for yourself, and ask for help to how to turn down a date, express sympathy, deal with offensive comments, respond to bullying, and be trustworthy, What Can I Sa...

A Show for Two follows Mina Rahman whose goal is to win the Golden Ivy student film competition, get into her dream school, and leave New York City behind for good. When indie film star Emmitt Ramos enrolls in her high school under a secret identity to research his next role, he agrees to star in her short film for the competition…if she acts as his NYC tour guide. As Mina ventures across the five...

Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer. She’ll be working in her family’s ice-cream shack with her newly ex-boyfriend—whose kisses never made her feel desire, only discomfort—and her former best friend, King, who is back in their Canadian prairie town after disappearing three years ago without a word. But when she gets a letter from her biological father—a man she hoped would stay be...

This is Play It Forward. Real people. Real stories. The struggle to Play It Forward Episode 496 With Grand Master Dork Lord Michael Johnston He’s set about turning traditional tropes in the fantasy genre on their head. In this epic adventure, GRAVE DANGER, written for ages 8-12, Johnston recasts the villain figure as the hero – because let’s be honest, it’s always the villain that gets to do all t...

Just in time for Halloween best-selling author Roseanne A. Brown brings us the story of a vampire slayer uprooted to suburban Maryland. How does a girl who was trained to be a vampire slayer adjust to regular life in middle school? Not so well. Serwa will make big mistakes, earn detention, and even make a trip to the underworld before she learns the shocking truth about herself and her family. For...

HOW TO SURVIVE MIDDLE SCHOOL is written by educators, vetted by curriculum experts, and chock-full of sophisticated illustrations, charts, diagrams, and formulas. Covering English, Math, Science, U.S History and World History, the content in these study guides is presented in a bold and fun format that's easy to read and understand. From ancient Rome to modern poetry, from the solar system to rati...

The most well-known spoken word poem from National Poetry Slam Champion Elizabeth Acevedo comes alive in the brand-new illustrated book, Inheritance: A Visual Poem. Paired with vivid, full-color illustrations by artist Andrea Pippins, Inheritance: A Visual Poem addresses Elizabeth’s experiences being Afro-Latinidad and the traits and struggles she inherited through her racial and ethnic heritage....

Featuring thrilling sky battles, SKANDAR AND THE UNICORN THIEF is the first book in a fast-paced adventure series that skewers pop notions of unicorns and subverts the “unicorns are pink and cuddly” trope. The creatures in this series are powerful and exploding with uncontrolled magic. YA readers looking for a world to lose themselves in need look no further than the detailed, lavishly crafted uni...

This is Play It Forward. Real people. Real stories. The struggle to Play It Forward Episode 480 With Cedric Williams From Face’s Music Party On Nickelodeon Face is back for a new generation of preschoolers in Face’s Music Party, a brand-new music variety show premiering Monday, June 6, at 11 a.m. (ET/PT). The interactive series that combines animation and live action (13 episodes) will feature a r...

Eleven-year-old Ella is the first Conjuror to attend the Arcanum Training Institute, a magic school in the clouds where Marvellers from around the world practice their cultural arts, like brewing Indian spice elixirs and bartering with pesky Irish pixies. Despite her excitement, Ella discovers that being the first isn't easy, and not all Marvellers are welcoming of Conjurors. But eventually, she f...

Fact: About 71 percent of the Earth's surface is water-covered, and the oceans hold about 96.5 percent of all Earth's water. Fact: More than 80 percent of the ocean and never been mapped, explored, or even seen by humans. A far greater percentage of the surfaces of the moon and the planet Mars has been mapped and studied than of our own ocean floor. Despite its size and impact on the lives of ever...