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Continue reading →: Meet Your New Best Friend: Canva ✨
A school librarian and educator’s guide to unlocking creativity, collaboration, and digital learning. If you have spent time in education, you have surely heard of Canva. Maybe you have opened up the webpage and browsed the many different templates and possibilities to be creative. Canva is my best friend; it…
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Continue reading →: The Parker InheritanceVarian Johnson, Author BIBLIOGRAPHY Johnson, Varian. 2018. THE PARKER INHERITANCE. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books. ISBN 9780545946171. 2. PLOT SUMMARY The Parker Inheritance follows Candice Miller as she uncovers clues that are left in an old letter in Lambert, South Carolina. With her friend Brandon, she investigates a mystery…
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Continue reading →: The War that Saved My LifeKimberly Brubaker Bradley, Author BIBLIOGRAPHY Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker. 2015. THE WAR THAT SAVED MY LIFE. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers. ISBN 9780803740819. 2. PLOT SUMMARY The War That Saved My Life is a story of a young girl named Ada who was born with a clubfoot. She escapes…
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Continue reading →: Catherine, Called BirdyKaren Cushman, Author BIBLIOGRAPHY Cushman, Karen. 1994. CATHERINE, CALLED BIRDY. New York: Clarion Books. ISBN 9780395681866. 2. PLOT SUMMARY Catherine, Called Birdy is set in the medieval England historical time period. It is a novel told through diary entries of a fourteen-year-old Catherine as she navigates the expectations set by…
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Continue reading →: Finding LangstonLesa Cline-Ransome, Author BIBLIOGRAPHY Cline-Ransome, Lesa. 2018. FINDING LANGSTON. New York: Holiday House. ISBN 9780823445824. 2. PLOT SUMMARY Finding Langston, a historical fiction novel set during the Great Migration. Taking shape after the death of his mother, the eleven-year-old moves in with his father from Alabama to Chicago with the…
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Continue reading →: BombSteve Sheinkin, Author BIBLIOGRAPHY Sheinkin, Steve. 2012. BOMB: THE RACE TO BUILD—AND STEAL—THE WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS WEAPON. New York: Roaring Brook Press. ISBN 9781596434875. 2. PLOT SUMMARY The story of the atomic bomb during World War II is the story told by Steve Sheinkin. The story follows scientists, spies, and…
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Continue reading →: What To Do About Alice?Barbara Kerley, Author Edwin Fotheringham, Illustrator BIBLIOGRAPHY Kerley, Barbara. 2008. WHAT TO DO ABOUT ALICE? Ill. by Edwin Fotheringham. Washington, D.C.: Scholastic Press. ISBN 9780439922319. 2. PLOT SUMMARY WHAT TO DO ABOUT ALICE? is an entertaining biography of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt. The book narrates…
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Continue reading →: The Tarantula ScientistSy Montgomery, Author Nic Bishop, Photographer BIBLIOGRAPHY Montgomery, Sy. 2004. THE TARANTULA SCIENTIST. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 9780618147999. 2. PLOT SUMMARY Montgomery’s The Tarantula Scientist follows Sam Marshall, an arachnologist, as he studies tarantulas in their natural habitats. The book explores his field of work in places such as the…
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Continue reading →: The Right Word: Roget and His ThesaurusJen Bryant, Author Melissa Sweet, Illustrator BIBLIOGRAPHY Bryant, Jen. 2014. THE RIGHT WORD: Roget and His Thesaurus. Ill. by Melissa Sweet. Boston: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers. ISBN 9780544108570. 2. PLOT SUMMARY The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus is the biography of Peter Mark Roget, the creator of the…
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Continue reading →: Kareem BetweenShifa Saltagi Safadi, Author BIBLIOGRAPHY Safadi, Shifa Saltagi. 2024. KAREEM BETWEEN. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons. ISBN 9780593855700. 2. PLOT SUMMARY Kareem Between is a novel of poems about a seventh-grade Syrian American boy named Kareem. Kareem is navigating his middle school life while also balancing a cultural identity,…
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