2021 Nominees

🔗 Excerpt of eBook & audiobook from Scholastic Books

🔗 Keith Calabrese's website

🔗 Prequel chapter, character information, author insights, and reading guide from Workman Books

🔗 Kelly Barnhill's blog

🔗 Mentor text writing lessons and author Q & A from Kate Messner

🔗 Excerpt of eBook & audiobook from Penguin Random House

🔗 Kekla Magoon's website

🔗 Shadow Mountain Publishing

🔗 Tyler Whitesides's website

🔗 Background information and additional photos from Margot Lee Shetterly's website

🔗 Author interview, teacher book talk, and printable activity from Judy Newman at Scholastic

🔗 Curriculum resources collected by Math Twitter Blog-o-Sphere

🔗 Audiobook excerpt from Harper Collins

🔗 Author interviews, Q & A, and related articles from Louis Sachar's website

🔗 Penguin Random House

🔗 Background information, author videos, teaching guides, writing prompts and more from Front Desk website

🔗 Vocabulary, pre-reading activites, and comprehension lessons in the Front Desk Hyperdoc by Liz Stroud (choose "Download" or "Make a copy" from the file menu to use with your students)

🔗 Videos, teacher interview, and digital activity from Judy Newman at Scholastic

🔗 Teacher's Guide from Penguin Random House

🔗 Audio interview with author from Celia C. Pérez's website