Month: January 2024

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Two New Years

Two New Years
by Richard Ho (Author) and Lynn Scurfield (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: For this multicultural family, inspired by the author’s own, two New Years mean twice as much to celebrate! In the fall, Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, offers an opportunity to bake challah, dip apples in honey, and lift voices in song. In the spring, Lunar New Year brings a chance to eat dumplings, watch dragon dances, and release glowing lanterns that light up the sky.

Snippet:
My family celebrates two New Years:
Rosh Hashanah in the fall
and Lunar New Year in the spring.

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Fighting with Love

Fighting with Love: The Legacy of John Lewis
by Lesa Cline-Ransome (Author) and James E. Ransome (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: John Lewis left a cotton farm in Alabama to join the fight for civil rights when he was only a teenager. He soon became a leader of a movement that changed the nation. Walking at the side of his mentor, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Lewis was led by his belief in peaceful action and voting rights. Today and always his work and legacy live on.

Snippet: “Working for nothing,” is what John grumbled to his parents as he dragged his cotton sack behind him.

“God’s gonna take care of his children,” his momma told him, and kept on, picking all day, praying all night.

Nonfiction Monday

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