Our ‘For Young People’ series includes critically acclaimed and bestselling adaptations of award-winning books by Ronald Takaki, Jared Diamond, Charles C. Mann, and Howard Zinn, and numerous other acclaimed writers and historians, all adapted for young readers by Rebecca Stefoff.
Zinn’s radical US history, “A Young People’s History of the United States,” which was recently updated and revised by cultural critic Ed Morales, and Takaki’s multicultural history, “A Different Mirror for Young People,” which will be published in 2026 in a new edition revised and updated by historian A. Naomi Paik, have been widely adopted into school curricula around the country. Other books include “Freedom Summer for Young People,” “1493 for Young People,” “Eiffel’s Tower for Young People,” “The Third Chimpanzee for Young People,” and the forthcoming “The Rediscovery of America for Young People” by Ned Blackhawk.
Teaching materials for all “For Young People” series titles are available as free downloads from the Seven Stories Press website.
Our mission with the “For Young People” series is not to talk down to the young, but to make accessible versions of some of the best books around, and thereby giving young people the facts and inspiration they may need in order to lift their voices up.
Zinn’s radical US history, “A Young People’s History of the United States,” which was recently updated and revised by cultural critic Ed Morales, and Takaki’s multicultural history, “A Different Mirror for Young People,” which will be published in 2026 in a new edition revised and updated by historian A. Naomi Paik, have been widely adopted into school curricula around the country. Other books include “Freedom Summer for Young People,” “1493 for Young People,” “Eiffel’s Tower for Young People,” “The Third Chimpanzee for Young People,” and the forthcoming “The Rediscovery of America for Young People” by Ned Blackhawk.
Teaching materials for all “For Young People” series titles are available as free downloads from the Seven Stories Press website.
Our mission with the “For Young People” series is not to talk down to the young, but to make accessible versions of some of the best books around, and thereby giving young people the facts and inspiration they may need in order to lift their voices up.
