This book explores how Indigenous currencies—including wampum and dentalium shells, beads, and the cryptocurrency MazaCoin—have long constituted a form of resistance to settler colonialism.   “…[C]ryptocurrency, and digital currency broadly, continue creating shifting circuits of transactional culture. A sort of code rush is taking place, in which various digital forms of currency prevail over conventionally

As we approach August, school and community leaders are looking for ways to set the tone for a new school year. Each community will have its own expectations to set, academic priorities to spotlight, or values to align on, but no matter what the focus or growth area, a community read or all school read

Featured in New York Public Library’s “Books for All” nation-wide community reading program, The Magic Fish is “a lyrical masterpiece” (BuzzFeed) from “a gifted storyteller” (The New York Times) that has received starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books. In this award-winning graphic novel, one

Oprah’s Book Club Pick  Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.   “Come in. But take off your shoes. My husband put down these floors.” The woman disappeared into the house. The boy hesitated, looking down the empty street. The

In this timely new book in Beacon’s renowned ReVisioning History series, professor Gloria Browne-Marshall delves into the history of protest movements and rebellion in the United States. Beginning with Indigenous peoples’ resistance to European colonization and continuing through to today’s climate change demonstrations, Browne-Marshall expands how to think about protest through sharing select historical moments

PRH Education/Common Reads presents: unCommon Authors unCommon Authors is a monthly video series highlighting exceptional and unique authors talking about their books. Banning Lyon was an average 15-year-old, living in Dallas, TX. He enjoyed skateboarding, listening to punk rock, and even had a part-time job. But in January 1987 his life quickly changed after a

Through the “revelatory and gut-wrenching” (Associated Press) stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of journalism exposes a new and troubling trend—the dramatic rise of the working homeless in cities across America.   1 Britt scrutinized her face in the bathroom mirror, hoping she looked less tired than she felt. Sleep had been hard

2024 recipient of the George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language given by the National Council of Teachers of English   Making Americans is a landmark work that weaves captivating stories about the past, present, and personal into an inspiring vision for how America can educate immigrant students. Setting

In Original Sins, University of Chicago professor Eve L. Ewing demonstrates that it’s in the DNA of American schools to serve as an effective and under acknowledged mechanism maintaining inequality in this country today. Ewing makes the case that we need a profound reevaluation of what schools are supposed to do, and for whom. This

One of America’s greatest storytellers sheds light on an American tragedy: the Wounded Knee Massacre, and the ‘cultural genocide’ experienced by the Native American children at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. In September of 1890, the academic year begins at the Carlisle School, a military-style boarding school for Indians in Pennsylvania, founded and run by

In October 2024, Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption celebrated its 10th anniversary. A new edition of the book is now available, featuring a new prologue. Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the

By Deborah Van Duinen Now in its 11th year, Hope College’s Big Read Lakeshore, an annual month-long community-wide reading program, continues to foster a culture where reading matters in West Michigan’s Ottawa, Muskegon, and Allegan counties. In collaboration with many libraries, nonprofit organizations, and schools, this annual reading initiative invites thousands of people of all