TY LA Reader's Choice (LYRC/LTRC) for nominating Stella by McCall Hoyle for your 2023-24 award for the Gr 3-5 category!
Nominees list:
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Video by the author about the themes of the book: youtu.be/kO0uu2fOo9s

In 1971 President Nixon signed the 26th Amendment lowering the voting age from 21 to 18, a movement dating back to WWII when the draft age was also lowered prompting the slogan, 'Old enough to fight, old enough to vote.'

The interior illustrations by Vivienne To provide just the right emotions to fit the story in our SPR '23 #MG empathy-building title, Just Gus by McCall Hoyle.

eARCs on Edelweiss & NetGalley
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eARC just posted: a cookbook organized by available time rather than the kind of dish w/recipes like Mac & Cheese w/Candied Sausage or Veg Stew w/Blue Corn Chips & Poached Egg or Toothpick Appetizers for Dinner.

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Plenty of time for these genius Halloween ideas from Celebrate Every Season with Six Sisters' Stuff.

There's also some eyeball treats if that's your thing.

From the beginnings of the women's suffrage movement in Edwardian England to clever twists on Cinderella to finding love amid the dangers of Victorian-era London, watch a video introduction to our new Proper #Romance series titles:
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'Civilization asks whether law is so laggard as to be utterly helpless to deal w/crimes of this magnitude...Civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated.'
SC Justice Robert H. Jackson's opening statement, Nuremberg Trials, 1945

On this Indigenous People’s Day, make a commitment to honest history. This webinar delves into the ways American history instruction often erases Indigenous perspectives. Join us and gain resources for teaching a more complete history.
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eARC is now posted. Based on the true stories of young Chinese women who were tricked into coming to America in the 19th c & lived lives of despair & servitude until local activists took matters into their own hands to free them & give them legal status.

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Hearts collide when a sheriff's daughter asks a hardened US Marshal to join her fight for justice and rid a small town of her corrupt father.

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Coming in March '23, Proper Romance Western series.

eARC available for McCall Hoyle's SPR '23 #MG empathy-building title, Just Gus about a working dog who is injured on the job and finds new purpose when placed with a boy who struggles with anxiety.

Request a copy:
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eARCs now available for this MG adaptation!
'YAs will be drawn to the dramatic stories of the young Chinese women brought to America.'-Booklist, starred ⭐️
'Good introduction to this often neglected chapter in American history.'-LJ
from the adult edition

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'O Little Town of Bethlehem' was written by an American preacher after traveling there in 1868 to find peace after the horrors of the Civil War & assassination of President Lincoln.
Read more fascinating stories in An Advent Carols Countdown:
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.GBH and PBS LearningMedia launch a new U.S. History Collection.

Free to educators nationwide, the set of media-rich classroom resources will help students develop critical thinking skills when learning about and interpreting history. bit.ly/3etoC3Y

TY Foreword Reviews for making The Opera Sisters your Book of the Day!

'Ordinary women find their inner strength, engaging in determined, clandestine actions to give others hope.'
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Available now. WWII historical fiction

'I can feel the sufferings of millions.
And yet, when I look up at the sky,
I somehow feel that everything will change for the better,
that cruelty too will end,
that peace and tranquility will return once more.'
—Anne Frank

Happy Rosh Hashanah and best wishes for the new year.

'Everyone can look inside his or her soul and decide what he or she can do to make the world at peace, to end this fighting that goes on every day around the world.'
—Ruth Gruber, author and journalist

Happy Rosh Hashanah and best wishes for the new year.

Sharing wisdom from an icon and all-around wonderful human. 👇