The Arabic Quilt: An Immigrant Story

The Arabic Quilt: An Immigrant Story
by Aya Khalil (Author) and Anait Semirdzhyan (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Kanzi’s family has moved from Egypt to America, and on her first day in a new school, what she wants more than anything is to fit in. Maybe that’s why she forgets to take the kofta sandwich her mother has made for her lunch, but that backfires when Mama shows up at school with the sandwich. Mama wears a hijab and calls her daughter Habibti (dear one). When she leaves, the teasing starts.

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Nature Did It First

Nature Did It First: Engineering Through Biomimicry
by Karen Ansberry (Author) and Jennifer DiRubbio (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Explore the ways we have looked to nature for brilliant new designs and innovations to solve our own conundrums. Each example in nature is paired with a rhyming description, an example of how it has been used by us, and a question to the reader–“what other problems can be solved?”

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

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