Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai is a great book for grade 7 as it connects to many of the themes in Emozi® Middle...

Sharon Flake is a three-time Coretta Scott King Award-winning author, the YWCA Racial Justice Award-winner and has been...

George by Alex Gino is a winner of the Stonewall Book award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the E.B. White Honor. The SEL...

The Other Half of Happy, by Rebecca Balcárcel, is a Pura Belpré Honor Award, a literary award for books that best portray...

Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling has SEL themes that relate to all three grades for Emozi®...

I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World by Malala Yousafzai with Patricia McCormick is a New...

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle was selected as a mentor text for grade 6 of Emozi® Middle School because it is a...

Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed was selected as a mentor text for grade 7 of Emozi® Middle School because it is a story about...

A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park contains the SEL themes of cultural competence, dealing with challenges such as loss and...

 A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park is an award-winning young adult novel. We use it as the mentor text in Emozi® Middle...