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Active Coding for Sports Fans

This spring, Lerner Publications launched a new active nonfiction series called Sports Coding Concepts, step-by-step guides for understanding and practicing coding fundamentals such as algorithms, looping, conditionals, and bugs and errors. These are completely unplugged coding titles, meaning readers don’t need a device or a screen of any kind to try out the projects themselves. […]Read more

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Happy Book Birthday: New Picture Books, Young Adult, and Non-Fiction

By Megan Ciskowski, Assistant Publicist Check out November new releases from Lerner Publishing Group!Read more

5 Kinds of Nonfiction: Active Nonfiction

This fall, Lerner published Girl Code Revolution and the Vidcode Coding Hacks series. These titles are active nonfiction, providing step-by-step instructions to create animations, filters, memes, and more, and provide an online sandbox so readers can practice what they’ve learned. Additionally, Girl Code Revolution highlights some of the amazing women coders that have existed throughout […]Read more

5 Kinds of Nonfiction: Nonfiction Writers Dig Deep

A guest post by Melissa Stewart Many teachers and students seem to think that writing nonfiction requires nothing more than doing some research and cobbling together a bunch of facts, but nothing could be further from the truth. To dispel this alarming myth, fifty of today’s most celebrated authors for children have come together to […]Read more

5 Kinds of Nonfiction: Kao Kalia Yang

We begin our tour of the 5 Kinds of Nonfiction with Kao Kalia Yang. Her most recent picture book, The Most Beautiful Thing, draws from her childhood experiences as a Hmong refugee and offers a window into the life of a family with little money and a great deal of love. Read on to find […]Read more

Introducing: 5 Kinds of Nonfiction with Melissa Stewart!

A guest post by Melissa Stewart Back in 2017, I proposed a five-category system for classifying children’s nonfiction on my blog, and the response was incredible. Teachers loved it. So did librarians and children’s book authors and editors. People praised the clarity it brought to the range of children’s nonfiction available today.Read more

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Happy Book Birthday: New Picture Books, Middle- Grade and Nonfiction

By Megan Ciskowski, Assistant Publicist Check out October new releases from Lerner Publishing Group!Read more

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Happy Book Birthday: New Picture Books, Middle Grade, YA, and Nonfiction

by Megan Ciskowski, Assistant Publicist Check out August new releases from Lerner Publishing Group!Read more

3 New Series for Makers

by Ashley Kuehl, Editorial Director of Lerner Publications I don’t know if you’ve heard, but makerspaces are kind of a big deal these days. Because we always like to supply our customers with what their young readers need and want, here’s a quick roundup of our new series for makers.Read more

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