Empowering Students: Their Choice, Their Voice*
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Original Author Resources Enrich Student Experiences
A customer in Charlotte, North Carolina recently let us know that award-winning author Kekla Magoon would be visiting with their middle school students this fall. To support this author visit, we created an original Meet-the-Author Book Reading with Kekla and co-author Ilyasah Shabazz talking about their book, X: A Novel (Candlewick 2016). In this recording, they explain why they wanted to write a novelization about Malcolm X's experiences as a teenager.Original Author Resources Help Prepare for Author Visits
A customer from the Oakland, California recently asked us to create original multimedia resources with author Alton Carter. In this original Meet-the-Author Book Reading Alton shares what inspired hime to write The Boy Who Carried Bricks and why he wrote this book.Recording Provides Author’s Insights
A customer from Charleston, SC recently asked us about available audio resources for The Queen of Water (Random House 2011).
In this original Meet-the-Author Book Reading, author Laura Resau talks about her friendship with co-author Maria Virginia Farinango, and their…
VIRALS: From Man’s Best Friend to DNA Altering Adventure
In this original Meet-the-Author Book Reading, you’ll hear Brendan explain his personal inspiration for co-writing Virals (Penguin 2010), the first book in the Virals novel series. Sneak peak: it involves Potcake dogs!2015 WRAD Blogging Challenge: Week 4
Week 4: March 2 – 8
Speak Your Story: Select a favorite read aloud book and make a video!
Val Edwards, Educational Outreach & Training Specialist, reads from Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey (Viking Press 1948).
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