Award-winning author Matt de la Peña talks about the freedom he has had to write about topics that he might not have been able to tackle before winning the Newbery Award.
In the 1960s, there was fierce debate about whether or not children’s book publishers were producing enough books that represented America’s multiracial makeup.
The goals are to expose students to a wide range of literature and encourage them to try a bit of everything so that they can become strong, capable readers of any text.
