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Cookie & Broccoli: Play It Cool
by Bob McMahon (Author / Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Chatty Cookie and bashful Broccoli are best buddies, even if they’re as different as peanut butter and cheese! Elementary school can be tough, but as long as they have each other, there’s nothing they can’t handle. Uh-oh, but what happens when Cool Cucumber and his loyal followers put Cookie’s and Broccoli’s coolness to the test, and Cookie’s hokey pokey dance does NOT impress? And worse, when Broccoli’s cool math trick propels him to be the new leader of the Cool Crowd? Can their friendship withstand this popularity contest? Will Cookie and Broccoli be able to come together and define for themselves what’s truly cool?

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My new Focus on STEM column, Women’s History Month, is in the March Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries newsletter.

Snippet: March is Women’s History Month. That’s a well-known fact. But did you know that March is also Expanding Girls’ Horizons in Science and Engineering Month? Item #3 on the “How to Observe Expanding Girls’ Horizons in Science and Engineering Month” list is “Share the stories of important women in the STEM field.” You can do that with these six picture book biographies for younger readers and three middle grade biographies for older readers.

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