Rebecca Ballenger | Worlds of Words Center for Global Literacies and Literatures (University of Arizona)

Rebecca Ballenger

A girl whose shirt reflects people running through the Sonoran Desert looks over her shoulder

WOW Reads: S4, E5 - The Freedom Seeker by Ruchira Gupta

Braille spelling of acceptance with anyone can grow here in English lettering over flowers

All WRAP’d Up: Disability Experiences in K-12 Literature

teen peeks through microphone equipment

WOW Reads: S4, E4 - Disability Experiences in K-12 Literature

middle schooler speaks into a microphone

WOW Reads: Bonus - Predicting the 2026 Caldecott

middle schoolers wait for a woman to sign their books

WOW Reads: S3, E1 - Miracle by Karen S. Chow

Completed MASH game

Invest In Youth as Readers: MASH and Matching

Reading Ambassadors recording a podcast

Invest In Youth as Readers: WOW Reads Podcast

Invest In Youth As Readers: Catch the Reading Ambassadors In Action

Invest In Youth as Readers: 2024 Crowdfund Campaign

Black, White and Gray Pop in New Worlds of Words Center Exhibit

pensive middle grader

WOW Reads: Bonus - Season 2 Year In Review

drawing of an astronaut in space thinking with text that reads she might be looking for something or someone new out of the ordinary a little like waking

WOW Reads: S2, E7 - A Little Like Waking by Adam Rex

microphone in foreground and boy considers a book in background

WOW Reads: S2, E6 - Alebrijes by Donna Barba Higuera

A Black woman looks out to the sky, where the women before her watch over her.

WOW Dozen: Books About Voting

An African American woman wearing a patriotic sash holds a banner flag

An On-going Struggle for Equal Voting Rights

Polaroid of a group holding books and smiling for the camera

WOW Reads: S2, E5 - The Colliding Worlds of Mina Lee by Ellen Oh