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Dec 5, 2024 | 
nygroove.nyc | E.B. White
Is your wallet worn out after the past week of spend spend spending on Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday and whatever other shopping holidays our sicko economy has managed to concoct? Too bad, you've still got more spending to do! Well, that may not be technically true — we don't know your personal budget or holiday shopping list.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Martha White |E.B. White
In 1955, E.B. White wrote, “The two moments when New York seems most desirable, when the splendor falls all round about and the city looks like a girl with leaves in her hair, are just as you are leaving and must say goodbye and just as you return and can say hello.” Over the years, my grandfather became increasingly adept at this, both the leaving and the returning, and thankfully the writing about it.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
alachuachronicle.com | Lauren Child |Bethany Barton |E.B. White |Robert Stevenson
Press release from Florida Department of EducationTALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Today, Florida Commissioner of Education Manny Diaz, Jr., announced August’s chosen books for the Commissioner’s Book of the Month, a monthly reading challenge to promote literacy and reading engagement in preK-12 schools. Each month, Commissioner Diaz highlights five recommended books – one per selected grade range.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
theindianedit.com | Gordon Korman |E.B. White |Jason Reynolds |Nitasha Manchanda
“Why do people migrate?” was the question Ritu Hemnani’s daughter posed to her one day. A deeper look at her own family’s story of migration from Sindh to Hong Kong led this educator to explore the history of the Partition and to share this story with her family and beyond. Author of ‘Lion of the Sky’ a beautiful, middle grade novel in verse, Ritu joins me on this episode to discuss her family’s story of resilience.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Ellen Oh |E.B. White |Garth Williams |Raina Telgemeier
We Need Diverse Books co-founder Oh follows up Flying Lessons & Other Stories (2017) with a collection of 12 interwoven, slice-of-life tales from acclaimed middle-grade authors. In an unnamed American city stands a (potentially haunted) yellow apartment building called the Entrada, where aromas of food and loud sounds set the tone for a summer of communal living. Desirée, apparently of West Indian descent, helps Ro perform a lion dance for her Chinese school.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
newsbytesapp.com | Anujj Trehaan |E.B. White
Simplifying... Inbrief Dive into the world of heartwarming animal friendships with these captivating books. "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White explores the bond between a pig and a spider, while "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford follows two dogs and a cat on a daring adventure. "The Bear and The Nightingale" by Katherine Arden introduces us to a girl's friendship with mythical creatures, and "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker tells the touching story of a boy and his fox.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
americanliterature.com | E.B. White
by Everything (he kept saying) is something it isn't. And everybody is always somewhere else. Maybe it was the city, being in the city, that made him feel how queer everything was and that it was something else. Maybe (he kept thinking) it was the names of the things. The names were tex and frequently koid.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Joanna Ho |E.B. White |Garth Williams |Raina Telgemeier
Striking and defiant: an unabashed declaration of hope. Eyes That Kiss in the Corners (2021) author Ho reflects on Asian American history. “We who dream / mark time by the moon, / a heavenly body containing multitudes, whose many faces mirror our own.” Writing in verse, Ho notes the diversity of the Asian American community. She alludes to the many reasons that people took the risk of immigrating to America: the wounds of colonization, unfair labor practices, and dreams of opportunities.
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Mar 15, 2024 | 
aarp.org | William Faulkner |John Steinbeck |Richard Wright |E.B. White
If you decide, as The Atlantic did, to compile a list of the great American novels from the past century, you’re going to face a few challenges. One, what does “great” mean? Does it mean the most interesting, most influential, most beautifully written or some hard-to-define combination of all that? And how in the world do you choose the best among millions of interesting, influential and/or beautifully written American reads published from 1924 onward?
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Lee Reed |E.B. White |Garth Williams |Raina Telgemeier
A sharp middle schooler with sky-high aspirations solves a mystery while navigating new friendships, sisterhood, and chronic migraines in Reed’s middle-grade novel. For 12-year-old budding astrophotographer Quinn Knight, a family move from Ohio to Texas isn’t totally awful. Sure, the weather is a trigger for her migraines, and her older sister, Vivica, has already claimed her throne as eighth grade class president and star of the school musical.
