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My new Focus on STEM column: More Summer Travel is in the August Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries newsletter.

Booktalk: Celebrate two historic travel achievements with a summer travel book display and activity center.

Snippet: This past July, we celebrated the first moon landing that happened fifty years ago. Fifty years prior to that, John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown flew an airplane with an open cockpit through fog and ice from Newfoundland to Ireland in the first nonstop, transatlantic flight. And it has now been five hundred summers since Ferdinand Magellan and his crew of 270 left Spain in five ships on their quest to circumnavigate the globe.

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

Call It What You Want
by Brigid Kemmerer (Author)

Booktalk: When his dad is caught embezzling funds from half the town, Rob goes from popular lacrosse player to social pariah. Even worse, his father’s failed suicide attempt leaves Rob and his mother responsible for his care.

Everyone thinks of Maegan as a typical overachiever, but she has a secret of her own after the pressure got to her last year. And when her sister comes home from college pregnant, keeping it from her parents might be more than she can handle.

When Rob and Maegan are paired together for a calculus project, they’re both reluctant to let anyone through the walls they’ve built. But when Maegan learns of Rob’s plan to fix the damage caused by his father, it could ruin more than their fragile new friendship . . .

Snippet:
Rob

A year ago, I’d buy whatever I wanted for lunch. I didn’t even have to carry cash: I had an automatically reloading acount, so I could buy anything the cafeteria offered without even thinking about it.

Today, I’m debating whether I want to wasted a dollar twenty-five on a bottle of water, or if I should risk the germ-infested water fountain for the rest of the day. There’s a five-dollar biil in my wallet, but those don’t grow on trees anymore, and I hate taking money from Mom. I hate spending money where anyone can see me. Whether I earn it myself or get it from my mother, I always wonder if people are thinking I’m spending stolen cash.

Category: young adult

Summer Travel and STEM

Call It What You Want