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June 2025


Dive Into Virtual Book Tours!

This summer, take a dive into Virtual Book Tours on The TeachingBooks Blog! Featuring new titles, these posts include original interviews with authors and illustrators, lesson plans, an activity designed for young people, and much more.

You can get exclusive content ahead of the crowd and then go find the book to read on Sora or Libby! Let us know what tours you're excited to take!

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Behind the Books: "Picture Books for Those Who March to a Different Beat"

Author Sandra Nickel and book Seven, A Most Remarkable Pigeon

Are you looking for books to share with a young neurodivergent reader or a neurodiverse group? In this guest post, author Sandra Nickel connects her observations on experiences of autistic children, portrayals of "different ones," and picture books she recommends for everyone, including her newest, Seven, A Most Remarkable Pigeon (Candlewick, 2025).

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Taraneh Matloob on Dear New Friend

Author Taraneh Matloob and book Dear New Friend

Taraneh Matloob's latest picture book, Dear New Friend (Red Comet Press, 2025), encourages readers to embrace friendships across different cultures and customs. Explore the tour for the exclusive author interview and a friendship-themed activity for students.

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Featured Booklist: AP Spanish Literature and Culture Reading List

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This AP Spanish Literature and Culture reading list includes 35 dynamic texts in Spanish, perfect for engaging advanced students. It highlights key works from Spain, Latin America, and U.S. Hispanic authors across genres. Use it to deepen students' language skills while exploring rich literary and cultural themes.

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Meet-the-Author Recording: The Summer of Lost Letters with Hannah Reynolds

Author Hannah Reynolds and book The Summer of Lost Letters

Author Hannah Reynolds shares how her grandmother's stories of growing up in Paris during World War II influenced the historical fiction layers of The Summer of Lost Letters (Penguin Random House, 2021).

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Discover Sora: Where Students Read

Save time selecting books for students of all ages by subscribing to this service of unlimited, simultaneous use ebooks and audiobooks to automatically add to your Sora collection. Then, easily increase engagement and deepen comprehension for these titles with resources from TeachingBooks.

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The Educational Power of TeachingBooks Resources

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Ignite reading engagement and enjoyment with resources that enhance instruction and promote literacy!

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Contests & Giveaways

Check out our June Contests & Giveaways, accompanied by multimedia resources!

Contests and Giveaways
  • The Glass Pyramid by Jeanne Walker Harvey and Khoa Le (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
  • Conservation Success by Laura Perdew and Lex Cornell (Nomad Press, 2025)
  • Skip! by Sarah Burgess (Andrews McMeel, 2023)
  • And More!

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