Elementary, Middle & Junior High School
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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 12th Annual Signet Classics Student Scholarship Essay Contest offers topics surrounding Robert Louis Stevenson Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. 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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