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by Betsy Bird
October 18, 2011 by Joyce Valenza
My big goal for the year is to promote reading. So I asked my practicum student, Chrissy Sirianni, to use my BookLeads wiki as an inspiration and add her own special curating touch to create a YA Lit Guide. And then I asked her to reflect on her work: I was thrilled when Joyce suggested […]
September 20, 2011 by Joyce Valenza
Inspired by Nerdfighteria, we decided to bag the traditional book-to-film display in favor of a far more awesome, far less sucky Read-it-first display. Our Springfield Nerdfighters not only approve, several volunteered to help us pull it together. The Readit1st pledge page offers a variety of embeddable web and Facebook buttons (with logo designed by Hank) […]
December 9, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
Yesterday, at the very end of the day, I was out on the floor helping the usual AP US History bunch dig up the usual primary sources for their usual DBQs, as well as the evidence they need for their debates. Many of these kids also happen to be members of my Book Club. Now, […]
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November 10, 2010 by Joyce Valenza
Nora and I were thinking of a way to highlight young adult authors (and a way to use our beautiful purple book cart). Our student readers kept asking for the same favorite names over and over again and we wanted to introduce them to a few new authors. (John Green simply cannot write as fast […]
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