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November 4, 2024November 3, 2024

The Real History of Thanksgiving

The Real History of Thanksgiving
by Cayla Bellanger DeGroat (Author)
@ Amazon | Bookshop

Booktalk: Thanksgiving is celebrated by millions of people in the US every year. But for many people, Thanksgiving has a dark or complicated past, and the real or full story of the holiday is often left out of history. Learn about what many consider to be the first Thanksgiving and how the arrival of Pilgrims impacted the Wampanoag and other Native American nations. Then discover the myths of the national holiday and what led to the National Day of Mourning.

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Nonfiction Monday

It’s Nonfiction Monday!

November 1, 2024October 31, 2024

Bounce!: A Scientific History of Rubber

Bounce!: A Scientific History of Rubber
by Sarah Albee (Author) and Eileen Ryan Ewen (Illustrator)
@ Amazon | Bookshop

Booktalk: Elementary school readers will discover that early balls didn’t bounce; that people in the rainforest made waterproof gear from rubber thousands of years before Europeans got into the act; and that sneakers, bicycles, and cars created demand for more and more rubber! Back matter includes a time line and the complicated implications of harvesting rubber today.

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