Month: October 2020

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Makers in the Kitchen


My new Focus on STEM column: Makers in the Kitchen is in the October Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries newsletter.

Booktalk: Use these new books about food for a bundle of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry fun for makers and bakers (and eaters!) in the kitchen this fall.

Snippet: An after-school South Asian cooking club brings sixth-graders Sara and Elizabeth together as they struggle to adjust to middle school in A Place at the Table, a novel with alternating chapters from both girls written by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan.

It’s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

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Acoustic Rooster’s Barnyard Boogie Starring Indigo Blume

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Acoustic Rooster’s Barnyard Boogie Starring Indigo Blume
by Kwame Alexander (Author) and Tim Bowers (Illustrator)

Booktalk: On the eve of singing at a community festival, a bout of stage fright threatens a little girl’s confidence. As Indigo Blume drifts off to sleep, she isn’t sure she’s brave enough to take the stage. But once she falls asleep, Indigo finds herself in a dream world with the characters of her favorite book, Acoustic Rooster and his Barnyard Band.

Snippet: And a one, and a two, and a one, two, three…

“Wait, who’s that? When did you blow in?” Miss Dairy Parton asked, looking down at me.

“This is a closed rehearsal,” said Chickee Minaj.

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