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Penguin Group (USA) offers a number of unique and useful online tools and services for teachers, librarians, professors, and our educational distribution partners. Here we've collected them and provided quick links to help you find exactly what you're looking for.

Elementary, Middle & Junior High School
Nominate the teacher you idealize to The National Teachers Hall of Fame.

The Teachers & Librarians site, produced by Penguin's Young Readers group, includes free information and features of interest to teachers and librarians. In addition to the regularly updated features, we offer the following opportunities, tools, and services.

High School
We offer many guides and programs specific to high school teachers and students.

The Signet Classics Essay Contest

This year, the 14th Annual Signet Classics Student Scholarship Essay Contest offers topics surrounding H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. Winning authors receive a $1,000 scholarship and a Signet Classic library for their school or local public library (for home-schooled children). Click to learn how high school juniors and seniors can win scholarship awards.

Reading Group Guides

Over 250 guides to the some of most-discussed books including such perennial-favorites as Tracy Chevalier (Girl with a Pearl Earring), Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees), Joyce Carol Oates (We Were the Mulvaneys), and classics from Shakespeare to Steinbeck.

Teachers Guides

Written by scholars and specifically intended for high school use, this area features guides to the works of William Shakespeare, John Steinbeck, Jane Austen, and many more.

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College
We offer many guides and programs specific to college students and faculty.
Academic Services and the College Faculty Information Service

Sign up to receive our Penguin Classics annotated catalog by mail, search subject catalogs online, join our College Faculty Information Service for alerts tailored to your teaching needs, get your examination and desk copies, and meet our college reps.

Discussion Guides from the Great Books Foundation

Penguin Classic, Classic Penguin. Penguin and the renowned Great Books Foundation have partnered to create erudite and thought-provoking guides to the classics and contemporary literature alike.

Penguin Classics

Test your knowledge of the Classics in our interactive quizzes, download a Penguin Classics screensaver, join our Classics discussion forum, and much more.

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PEARSON READING CHALLENGE

Reading Challenge

Enter today and jumpstart your school year!


The Signet Classics Essay Contest

The Signet Classics Essay Contest

The Signet Classics Essay Contest

Write an essay on The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells for a chance to win a $1,000 college scholarship


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The Omnibus Newsletter

The Omnibus Newsletter

Penguin's bimonthly newsletter for education distribution partners


Academic Spotlight

Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar
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Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar
Understanding Philosophy through Jokes

Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein

"I can't help but love this book, and I have been quoting liberally from it in my classes." —Tim Madigan, St. John Fisher College.