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Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Confession: I read this book during a sixth grade DEAR session, and my sniffling disrupted the group. Sharon Creech nails it in every way with this pensive, doleful tale in free form poetry. Animal […]
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In honor of Dr. Mae Jemison’s September 20 visit to the University of Virginia, Ms. Wilkens and Ms. FitzHenry hosted a Pop-Up Maker Space in the Legner Learning Village Library with a number of space-themed options. Dr. Jemison, the first African American female astronaut to travel in space, was the subject of one station devoted […]
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St. Anne’s-Belfield families, don’t forget! Tomorrow morning, Ms. Wilkens and I are offering students a chance to visit outer space in the Learning Village Library. To honor Mae Jemison and her visit to the University of Virginia next week, we will be opening the library early for students to participate in space-themed robotics, engineering, and […]
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Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Some books just sing in audiobook form – and Echo is one of them. An enchanted harmonica links three different children each facing unique challenges in their own time and place. Music, engaging characters, […]
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The other day, a few coworkers and I found ourselves in a raucous debate about literature. We bantered back and forth – what does that term encompass? What does literature really mean? It started good-naturedly but, before long, the conversation got heated. One teacher in particular, an accomplished reader and educator of 10+ years, had a clear cut definition – […]
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Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Could this be the same Lisa Graff that wrote Lost in the Sun?! A Tangle of Knots is unrecognizable in comparison. So cute it borders on twee, this sugary sweet story follows Cady as […]
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Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram It must be hard for a young writer to follow a smash hit first novel. So I was rooting for Rebecca Stead when I started Goodbye Stranger – but the cheering didn't last long. […]
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Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram If you're still wiping away tears from Shiloh and Winn Dixie, then you might need a break before picking up A Dog Called Homeless. This book had me 😭💔😔 in the middle of the […]
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If you followed along with my book reviews over the summer (or have ever talked to me for more than five minutes in person), then you know that I’m a huge Kwame Alexander fan. Okay, maybe huge is an understatement. He makes me swoon. I write his name in cursive all over my school notebooks. […]
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