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Ecosystems Everywhere

My new Focus on STEM column: Ecosystems Everywhere is in the September Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries newsletter.

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Here’s a fun science fact for September. At 9:15 a.m. on September 30, 2004, in the ocean waters off the coast of the Ogasawara Islands, the giant squid, Architeuthis, was captured on camera for the very first time.

Click here to read Ecosystems Everywhere with eight #kidlit ecosystems books as well as Next Generation Science Standards Ecosystem activities for the classroom and library.

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

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Manga Classics)
by Mark Twain (Author), Crystal S. Chan (Adapter), and Kuma Chan (Artist)

Booktalk: The manga version of the story of a young boy growing up in the fictional small town of Hannibal, Missouri along the Mississippi River during the 1840s. Tom Sawyer lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid. Life for Tom is a series of grand adventures that include his best friend “Huck” Finn, the love of his life Becky Thatcher, buried treasures, scoundrels, thieves and body snatchers.

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PUBLISHER’S NOTE: For this Manga Classics edition, we tried to preserve as much of Mark Twain’s original language as possible to uphold the historical integrity of the work. We believe that by exposing rather than burying the past, it would help new readers think critically about current racial slurs and stereotypes by tracing them back to their historical origins, and by examining the intent and viewpoints of those associated with them.


BONUS! The original story is one of the 100 books nominated by the public this summer for THE GREAT AMERICAN READ on PBS. Voting for the #1 book is now open! Which novel will you choose?

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