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The Best Freebie Friday Ever: Thousands of Ebooks FOREVER
Teachers and librarians, rejoice! Here’s the best Freebie Friday EVER. Thousands of ebooks for your unlimited use, for free, with NO END DATE OR LIMIT! Currently available for the iPad, Epic! is a...
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Blindness Visible: Recent Books with Blind Characters
Cindy: Have we run the course of characters with Asperger’s Syndrome? The new trend just might be characters who are blind. Last fall, my first blind student, Maria, arrived at one of my middle schools...
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A Superhero with Rabbit Ears: El Deafo, by Cece Bell
Lynn: If you were going to tell the story of what it is like to lose your hearing as a child, adjust to that bewildering loss, cope with friendships, school, loneliness and public ignorance, how would...
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The Blogger’s Desk
Cindy and Lynn: One of our favorite out-of-print books is The Writer’s Desk (1996) by Jill Krementz. In it are her photographs of famous authors where they write and the great photos are accompanied by...
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Murder on the Moon: Space Case, by Stuart Gibbs
Lynn: BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! ALERT! ALERT! Terrific middle-grade book with huge boy appeal incoming! Prepare robotic arm to secure capture and arrival! OK, that introduction is more than a little cheesy but...
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Inside the Audiobook Studio with the Incomparable Jack Gantos
“I may have finished but the book lives on.” The incomparable Jack Gantos, award-winning author and narrator extraordinaire, discusses the recording of his fifth and final Joey Pigza book, The Key That...
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Better Babysitting through Ghost Stories: Spooky Fun for Halloween
Cindy: The Brothers Grimm knew that storytelling was good for teaching children to behave—if only they had also whipped up treats like granghoula bars, or peppermint bone rattlers, they’d have really...
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Book Trailer Friday: The Book with No Pictures
If a Book Trailer Friday is the very thing you expected least today, it’s only in keeping with a trailer for a book you’d expect even least-er. Because it’s a picture book! With no pictures! B.J....
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New Out of the Box: Using Book Swag to Get Kids Reading
Cindy: I so enjoy coming home to new boxes of books but sometimes I don’t know what to make of the occasional extra special promotional book shipments I receive from publishers. Lots of packaging, cool...
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Return to Oz for a Fantastic Book-Group Theme
My fantasy and science fiction group discussed the theme of “Fantasy before Tolkien” last week, and I decided to use the opportunity to go somewhere I hadn’t been in over thirty years: Frank Baum’s Oz....
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