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Stories that draw students in - and keep them there.
CI novels across five languages: compelling, accessible, and written with your students in mind.

I don't do safe. I do real.

When I started writing CI novels, nobody was writing about the kid whose father is in prison. Nobody was writing about the teenager who can't get a driver's license because he just found out he's undocumented. Nobody was writing about coming out in a conservative Latino family, or being trans, or watching your best friend get swallowed by generational poverty while you get every opportunity they don't.

So I did.

Not because I wanted to be provocative. Because my students needed those stories. Because kids are already encountering these topics online, in their homes, in their communities — and if we're not having those conversations in the classroom, we're leaving them to figure it out alone.

These are those books.

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BEST SELLER

El jersey

Learn how two boys from different places and cultures are connected through their love of el fútbol.
LATEST RELEASE

TODO ES NUEVO

Cooper and Taruka grow up and go to college - separately.
Will they stay together?
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WHAT READERS ARE SAYING

"I finished Los tres amigos last night. It tore me up. I'll have to go back and re-read to think about level and vocabulary -- I didn't even pay attention. I thought about the story and how much I related to it. This is as much a book for the girl whose boyfriend breaks up with her (everyone) as a book about a boy who comes out. For girls -- we've all been the girl with the guy friend who turned out to be gay. It's really good. It's culture in a way that makes it the background of everything... I will be thinking about this book for a long time.... mostly that I didn't think there was an audience for books like this and now I know I was wrong and I couldn't be happier.  Jennifer Degenhardt -- you are a groundbreaker and I hope a lot of the rest of us follow the path you've beaten."
Karen Rowan, Colorado

​JENNIFER DEGENHARDT. 

Author of more than 100 novels for language learners and beyond. Stories that open worlds. Stories that open conversations.

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