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My new Focus on STEM column: Family Trees is in the December Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries newsletter.

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Talking about inherited family traits is a given whenever families gather. Traits are analyzed and compared across the generations with photos and family stories. Prepare students for text-to-self connection of their own inherited family traits during the winter break with these new animal books.

Click here to read Family Trees with eight #kidlit science books that support the Next Generation Science Standard for Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits in the classroom, the library, and at home!

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

When Paul Met Artie: The Story of Simon & Garfunkel
by G. Neri (Author) and David Litchfield (Illustrator)

Booktalk: From childhood friendship to brief teenage stardom, from early failures to musical greatness — the story of how Simon & Garfunkel became a voice of their generation . . .

Back matter includes a discography, a bibliography, and notes about musical connections to specific songs.

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A 2018 Cybils Poetry nominee

BONUS! Download the Teacher’s Guide

Nonfiction Monday

It’s Nonfiction Monday!