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Congratulations to Dianne H (Library Di)! You’ve won Science Gets It Wrong! Please send us an email to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com with the subject line “Free Book Friday” and your mailing address so we can get your books in the mail. This week’s giveaway is an exciting one for all you YA lit fans out there: Perfectly Good White Boy by Carrie Mesrobian, […]Read more "Free Book Friday: Perfectly Good White Boy by Carrie Mesrobian"

Wow, these books are cool.                Let’s Watch the Weather, the new set in our beloved First Step Nonfiction brand, addresses the weather and climate strand of the Next Generation Science Standards. The books have gorgeous photos. Just look at that cover on What Is Severe Weather?!!! (Not that I’m […]Read more "Free teaching guide for First Step Nonfiction: Let’s Watch the Weather"

On page 21 of Fourth Down and Inches, author Carla Killough McClafferty quotes an entry from the private diary of the coach of the Harvard University football team. In that entry, the coach, who was the highest second-highest paid employee of the university, recounts minimizing a player’s concussion to avoid a PR disaster: “Since football […]Read more "The past is never dead."

Oh, say have you seen Lerner’s newest Cloverleaf subset titled Our American Symbols? As the designer for this series, I had the wonderful opportunity to work on these fun, fact filled books.Written by Martha E. H. Rustad and illustrated by Holli Conger and Kyle Poling, these books are an informative lesson for young children on […]Read more "Our American Symbols"

Congratulations to Betsy Brown (@phlockteacher)! You’ve won Bug on a Bike! Please send us a DM on Twitter or an email to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com with the subject line “Free Book Friday” and your mailing address so we can get your book in the mail. This week, enter to win Science Gets It Wrong, a four-book high-interest series that examines scientific missteps—some […]Read more "Free Book Friday: Science Gets It Wrong"

It happens at least once every season. There’s a particular Lerner series that I fall head-over-heels in love with. This season, that series is Name That Text Type! (cover pictured). Just why do I adore it? Let me count the ways. 1. It’s all about a topic near and dear to my heart: language, literature, […]Read more "My Book Crush"

 “Kids today.”  Those two words, when uttered, can make me feel firmly planted in middle age. There’s a lot of talk about “kids today” and what they do or don’t do, what they say, and what they like. In my job as Associate Art Director for Lerner Publishing Group I need to know about “kids […]Read more "Learning how to PAAAAAR-TAY!"

Congratulations to V. (@aimmyarrowshigh)! You’ve won Up for Sale! Please send us a DM on Twitter or an email to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com with the subject line “Free Book Friday” and your mailing address so we can get your book in the mail. This week, enter to win Bug on a Bike, a charming new picture book from author-illustrator Chris Monroe. Are […]Read more "Free Book Friday: Chris Monroe’s Bug on a Bike"

Do you know what’s great about Colorado? How about Alabama? Lerner’s new Our Great States series will show you the top ten kid-friendly things to do in each of our great United States. The backmatter includes key information for report-writing, such as each state’s motto, bird, population, biggest cities, and more.     To help […]Read more "Free teaching resources for Our Great States"