Alternate U.S. Histories: Telling the Whole Story
What is the real story behind the history we learn in school? How do we know?
FREE Newbery Award Books Part 1: Fiction set in the Eastern United States
When the copyright on books or other media expires, it goes into what is called the “public domain”. That means that the book can be reproduced freely without getting permission or having to pay the author royalties. The most prestigious award for American children’s literature, the Newbery Award, has been around since 1922, so some …
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Alison Bechdel’s “Fun Home”: What does being “true to yourself” actually mean?
Why I Read Fun Home Fun Home is a book that I have studiously avoided reading for a long time because I thought it was somehow about perversion and abuse, and I have read my fair share of memoirs about that topic. You get to a point in life, or at least I …
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Perrotta. The Rapture. Mix the two. Do You Get “Left Behind” or “The Leftovers”?
Every generation seems to have its own angst about the end of the world….
FREE Reads and Resources about the Celts for Kids (and Adults)
Who were the Celts? I asked the same thing, and the answer turned out to be more complicated than I thought. What I suspected, and turned out to be true, is that the Celts have a lot of freaky stories and adventure tales. Imagine you were living in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Brittany, Cornwall, or the …
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