Laurie Halse Anderson
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2023 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award Laureate. Fighting censorship since 1999. Kids need books as much as they need love & laughter. On Spoutible @halseanderson
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So excited about this!! Illinois believes in the First Amendment and #Freadom
PEN America Penguin Young Readers School & Library Macmillan Children's School & Library 📚 Simon Kids School Librarians United ALA OIF ALAN NCTE
On this day in 1960, hundreds of white people armed with baseball bats and ax handles attacked Black activists for staging a peaceful sit-in at a 'whites only' restaurant in Jacksonville, FL. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…
Adding new literature to your syllabus? Worried about creating new materials? #THEBOOKCHAT has you covered! Here are 30 free hyperdocs Joel /hō•ÉL/ Garza is cofounder of #THEBOOKCHAT 📓 & I created! Includes work from Laurie Halse Anderson Tommy Orange Ilya Kaminsky Elizabeth Acevedo and more! Click here: bit.ly/THEBOOKCHAT
FIVE of my books are on this list: Speak, Speak Graphic Novel, Shout, Wintergirls and Twisted. Penguin Young Readers School & Library Macmillan Children's School & Library 📚 PEN America Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award #Freadom YALSA Tracy van Straaten Ali Velshi
Pennridge Parents Plan To Opt Students Out Of Hillsdale 1776 Curriculum | Incorporating studies influenced by ultra-conservative politics is a step too far for some in the Pennridge School District community, who for months have tried everything to stop it.
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“If you just don’t want it for your one child, that’s parenting, but if you are trying to limit the access for other people’s children without a robust understanding of what they want, to me that is censorship.” Jessica Vaughn
We agree! wfla.com/news/hillsboro…