Pernille Ripp

Since Pernille Ripp was a child growing up in Denmark, she knew she wanted to work with kids. She began her journey in education as a math resource teacher, then transitioned into the classroom as a 4th and 5th-grade teacher, and has now found her home as a 7th-grade English teacher in Oregon, Wisconsin. Pernille is also a speaker, author, blogger at pernillesripp.com, mom, and passionate advocate for education. She's an award-winning speaker in literacy and technology integration, and dedicates her life efforts to uplifting engaged and empowered students. She is also the founder of The Global Read Aloud that has connected millions of students in more than 85 countries. Pernille's books and blogs are sources of tremendous inspiration and insight for teachers, parents, and educators around the world.  She believes in having the courage to change and even break the rules for the good of kids and education. Besides being with her own family, there is no place she would rather be every day than in the classroom, teaching her awesome students.

Reimagining Literacy Through Global Collaboration: Create Globally Literate K-12 Classrooms with This Solutions Series Book
Passionate Readers: The Art of Reaching and Engaging Every Child
Empowered Schools, Empowered Students: Creating Connected and Invested Learners
We Are Not from Here Crossings: Extraordinary Structures for Extraordinary Animals Fauja Singh Keeps Going: The True Story of the Oldest Person to Ever Run a Marathon
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My Favorite Reads of 2020

Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard Flood City Rez Dogs
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Favorite Reads of 2021

Science Comics: Cats: Nature and Nurture
Pashmina
The Stonekeeper: A Graphic Novel (Amulet #1): Volume 1
Major Impossible (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #9): A Grand Canyon Tale
The Okay Witch
All's Faire in Middle School
Stargazing
Camp
The Witch Boy: A Graphic Novel (the Witch Boy Trilogy #1)
Babymouse #1: Queen of the World!
Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute: Lunch Lady #1
Karen's Witch: A Graphic Novel (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #1): Volume 1 (Adapted, Adapted, Full-Color)
All Together Now
Hot Comb
Nat Enough: A Graphic Novel (Nat Enough #1): Volume 1
Elatsoe
The Jumbies
Dragons in a Bag
Soldier for Equality: José de la Luz Sáenz and the Great War
Undocumented: A Worker's Fight
Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant's Tale
Diego Rivera: His World and Ours
Danza!: Amalia Hernández and El Ballet Folklórico de México
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation
Feathered Serpent and the Five Suns: A Mesoamerican Creation Myth
The Princess and the Warrior: A Tale of Two Volcanoes
Dear Primo: A Letter to My Cousin
On the Come Up
A World Without Heroes (Reprint)
Among the Hidden (Reprint)
Home of the Brave
Warriors #1: Into the Wild
The Hate U Give: A Printz Honor Winner
Shatter Me
Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard Set
Five Feet Apart
To All the Boys I've Loved Before (Media Tie-In)
Rae of Hope
Divergent
The Meltdown
Scythe (Reprint)
Scythe
I Want My Hat Back This Is Not My Hat The Bear Ate Your Sandwich
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Picture Books to Teach and Practice Inference

The Soccer Fence: A Story of Friendship, Hope, and Apartheid in South Africa The Hallelujah Flight Dad and the Dinosaur
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Picture Books to Teach Memoir and Personal Narrative

This Mortal Coil (Reprint) The Light at the Bottom of the World A Phoenix First Must Burn: Sixteen Stories of Black Girl Magic, Resistance, and Hope
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Great Dystopian Book Titles for Middle School

Alma and How She Got Her Name Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story La Princesa and the Pea
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Global Read Aloud 2020 Winners