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WOW Stories: Connections from the Classroom is a free, open access, on-line, academic publication of Worlds of Words Center of Global Literacies and Literatures containing blind, peer-reviewed vignettes written by educators about students' experiences reading and responding to literature. This journal is available to anyone to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles or use them for any other lawful purpose within our guidelines and according to stated copyright.

Volume 13 • Issue 1 • 2026 • 2024-2025 Outstanding International Book Reports

Editors: Kathy Short (Guest Editor)

Articles

Introduction

  • Kathy Short

Volume 13 • Issue 1 • 2026 • 2024-2025 Outstanding International Book Reports • 2

Research Report on International Youth Literature Published in 2024 in the U.S. 

  • Narges Zandi
  • Kathy Short
  • E. Sybil Durand

Volume 13 • Issue 1 • 2026 • 2024-2025 Outstanding International Book Reports • 3-23

Research Report on the 2025 Outstanding International Award Books 

  • Narges Zandi
  • Kathy Short
  • E. Sybil Durand
  • Rachel Roseberry

Volume 13 • Issue 1 • 2026 • 2024-2025 Outstanding International Book Reports • 24-36

Research Report on International Youth Literature Published in 2025 in the U.S. 

  • Narges Zandi
  • Kathy Short
  • E. Sybil Durand

Volume 13 • Issue 1 • 2026 • 2024-2025 Outstanding International Book Reports • 37-67

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