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…All Need to Be Seen and Heard

While fall is officially getting underway and families and friends are gathering for apple picking, leaf peeping, and tailgate parties, there’s another group coming together for an entirely different reason. They are the teachers, librarians, authors, publishers, booksellers, writers, journalists, and readers of all kinds in communities all across the U.S. Why? For Banned BookContinue reading “…All Need to Be Seen and Heard”

Different People, Places and Perspectives…

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird are novels that still have a place on my bookshelf, in my memory, and especially in my heart. I’ve read them several times. And every summer I pull out F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece setContinue reading “Different People, Places and Perspectives…”