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This fast-paced juvenile biography dives into the 1964 spectacle of 23-year old Bruce Lee doing pushups using only two fingers on one hand b...

We kicked off AAPI Heritage Month 2021 with a schema activity around the geography of Asia using Geo Kids’ Asia puzzle .   Many thanks to Li...

“The best way to eliminate a group is to demonize them, such that their disappearance is seen as an act of justice, not discrimination.”  Th...

I Could Pee on This and Other Poems by Cats offers us a sweet, humorous, and rather  bold look at how cats view their interactions with us ...

We’ve been celebrating all month long, first with Gwendolyn Brooks’ “ We Real Cool ” and Zetta Elliot’s "We Can't Breathe" and...

 Yes!   Your students will want to read this very of-the-moment book of poems by Dr. Javon Johnson, award-winning slam poet and Director of ...

Quan was only in 6th grade when he witnessed  a home invasion and his father’s arrest by the police. Without his dad around,  Quan became th...

  Pulga and Chico are two Guatemalan cousins  who are as close as brothers.  One day they are in the back of Don Feliciano’s store moving so...

After an airplane crash on its way to the Dominican Republic takes their father, Yahaira and Camino’s worlds are thrown onto a collision cou...

  Are we excited for poetry month! What month is that you ask? April of course! And all of our students will be participating in a poetry-ac...

  “You called twice a month,/ then your cousin said the gang you ran from/ in San Salvador/ found you in Alexandria.  Farewell/”   Javier Za...

Ever wanted to follow around a bad guy and see what his day to day is like? What if that bad guy was the Joker? In this graphic novel we ste...

Where to begin? The art? The featured women? The succinct amount of information? Brave. Black. First. is the perfect balance of visual and ...

 It's official:  Passages' students' book, Everything I Been Through , has been selected as one of the ten best books for margi...

The heartiest of congratulations to our students, mostly former, whose publication,  Everything I Been Through , has been selected as one of...

  The Passages’ BIG Read kicks off January 14th! The book? Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi .  Stu...

What a year it's been.  We'll be back in 2021 with a school-wide read that won't surprise anyone .  In preparation for reading a...

  We are happy to share that some of students' favorite stress free reads are now available on Sora, thanks to Literacy for Incarcerated...

Hello readers! This is the PAL Team posting with a quick update. Once again the team is working remotely. We are getting ready to engage stu...

Another school year gone by. And what a year it’s been as we have all faced new challenges along the way. While we prepare for our sum...