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Listen Up! New Read-Aloud eBooks

Lerner Digital’s latest additions to our Audisee® eBook with Audio list cover a wide range of curricular and high-interest topics. From award winners and hard topics to continuing series and nonfiction, these new read-aloud ebooks are sure to satisfy your students’ reading needs. Let’s take a look!Read more

Lerner Receives Printz Honor and Batchelder Honor at ALA Midwinter

By Libby Stille, Publicist This morning at ALA Midwinter in Seattle, Lerner received two ALA awards! I, Claudia by Mary McCoy was awarded a Michael L. Printz Honor, and My Beijing: Four Stories of Everyday Wonder by Nie Jun picked up a Mildred L. Batchelder Honor.Read more

Seeing Stars (and Awards): Top Titles from 2018

By Libby Stille, Publicist Today we share this year’s best and brightest books from Lerner Publishing Group.Read more

Sea Otter Heroes Receives Sibert Honor

By Libby Stille, Associate Publicist This morning at the American Library Association (ALA) Youth Media Awards, Patricia Newman’s Sea Otter Heroes: The Predators That Saved an Ecosystem was named a 2018 Robert F. Sibert Informational Honor Book! The Sibert Medal and Honors are awarded annually to outstanding informational picture books for young readers.Read more

Addressing Charlottesville with kids—New York Times recommends THE WHISPERING TOWN

In a recent piece, “How to Talk to Your Kids About Charlottesville,” New York Times children’s book editor Maria Russo featured Jennifer Elvgren’s The Whispering Town among “children’s books about people — including kids — who helped in the fight against Nazis and against racism here in the U.S.” Based on a true story, The Whispering Town tells the story […]Read more

More Award-Winning Audisee® EBooks with Audio Available this fall

By Jeff Mitchell, Digital Product Manager For the past few years, Lerner Digital has helped the most reluctant of readers build key literary skills by offering ebooks with voice narration and sentence highlighting. This fall, we’ve expanded our award-winning Audisee® collection to include 865 ebooks with audio. Now it’s even easier to engage students with […]Read more

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