Help your students discover their next favorite read! Our Virtual Book Tastings hopefully give your students a chance to sample some great books! Whether IRL or virtually, run a book tasting with our Book Tasting Samplers! Each one contains five middle grade novels from historical fiction, to books that make you LOL, to #ProjectLITBookClub and Global Read Aloud selections, there’s a whole menu to choose from. Complete with a form after each book for students to write down their thoughts. Download the samplers for FREE and share them with your students!
If you’re running book tastings and have readers looking for books about family, friendship, and community across a variety of genres and formats (graphic novels to illustrated novels to fantasy adventure and humor!), download the ALL TOGETHER NOW Book Tasting featuring new books by Veronica Chambers (FLORA LA FRESCA & THE ART OF FRIENDSHIP), Heather Faucett (THE ISLANDS OF ELSEWHERE), Pedro Martín (MEXIKID), Jake Maia Arlow (THE YEAR MY LIFE WENT DOWN THE TOILET), and Malia Maunakea (LEI AND THE FIRE GODDESS)!
Get a slice of life with real stories about real kids! This Taste of Life Book Tasting features new books by Celia C. Pérez (TUMBLE), Varsha Bajaj (THIRST), Lakita Wilson (BE REAL, MACY WEAVER), Carrie Firestone (THE FIRST RULE OF CLIMATE CLUB), and Aida Salazar (A SEED IN THE SUN) dealing with everything from climate change to fashion to activism to wrestling and more!
Our Chapter Book book tasting is perfect for your emerging readers! Get a taste of new chapter book series like Jada Jones, J.D. and the Great Barber Battle, The Secret Spy Society, Astronaut Girl, the Unicorn Rescue Society, and Planet Omar!
Give your teens a taste of their next favorite read to keep them on the edge of their seats! From screams to thrills and chills, discover new reads from Adam Sass (YOUR LONELY NIGHTS ARE OVER), Jennifer Dugan (THE LAST GIRLS STANDING), Stephanie Oakes (THE MEADOWS), and Kate Alice Marshall (THE NARROWS)
Our latest Summer book tasting features six new middle grade titles that will get your young readers appetites going with horror, novels-in-verse, fantasy, and contemporary stories. Get a taste a new reads from award-winners and debut authors with these reads: THE MANY MEANINGS OF MEILAN, KIKI KALLIRA BREAKS A KINGDOM, MAYA AND THE ROBOT, SAMIRA SURFS, REZ DOGS, and TOO BRIGHT TO SEE.
Our Paperback Book Tasting Sampler (yellow cover) features AMAL UNBOUND, HARBOR ME, THE BRIDGE HOME, SHOUTING AT THE RAIN, and EACH TINY SPARK!
Our middle grade debut Book Tasting sampler features STAND UP; YUMI CHUNG, BIRDIE AND ME; GET A GRIP, VIVY COHEN; THE BLACKBIRD GIRLS; and TORNADO BRAIN!
Our YA Book Tasting sampler features THE STARS AND THE BLACKNESS BETWEEN THEM; PATRON SAINTS OF NOTHING; LOVELY WAR; FRANKLY IN LOVE; and THE FOUNTAINS OF SILENCE!
Our Eerie Stories Book Tasting sampler features books to give your middle graders the goosebumps with THIRTEENS, THE CIRCUS OF STOLEN DREAMS, THIS TOWN IS NOT ALRIGHT, SMALL SPACES, and MONSTROUS DEVICES.
Our YA Rom Com Book Tasting sampler features reads you’re teens will swoon over with WHAT’S NOT TO LOVE; FROM LITTLE TOKYO, WITH LOVE; PERFECTLY PARVIN; SOME GIRLS DO; THE PASSING PLAYBOOK; HEARTBREAKERS AND FAKERS; THE SUMMER OF LOST LETTERS; and SUNNY G’S SERIES OF RASH DECISIONS.