Rise, Resist, Raise Your Voice Today!
Intermediate & Middle School Activity We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices (2019 Jane Addams Children’s Book Award Honor Title for Older Chidren) is an empowering anthology that encourages resilience […]
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Thanhha Lai: Language Changes Who You Are
Intermediate & Middle School Activity Inside Out and Back Again, by Thanhha Lai 2012 Jane Addams Children’s Book Award Honor Title for Older Children, is a sem- autobiographical story. For all […]
Lois Lowry: Grapples with 1918 pandemic shutdown
Intermediate & Middle School Activity Lois Lowry has written more than 40 books for young people, some quite serious like Jane Addams Children’s Book Award 1990 Honor Title for Older […]
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Christopher Paul Curtis: Close Reading of Characters Fictional and Real
Intermediate & Middle School Activity READ ABOUT ELIJAH OF BUXTON BY CHRISTOPHER PAUL CURTIS, 2008 JANE ADDAMS CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD HONOR TITLE FOR OLDER READERS… Just over the Canadian border […]
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Carole Boston Weatherford: “Notes that echo history”
Intermediate & Middle School Activity Download the free ebook The Sound That Jazz Makes (offered through Amazon) created by Jane Addams winning author Carole Boston Weatherford and Jane Addams winning […]
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Three Voices: Margarita Engle and poetry of perspective
Read a summary of the book Synopsis of ‘Silver People’ by Margarita Engle (2015 Jane Addams Winning Title for Older Children): The building of the Panama Canal was undoubtedly one of […]
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Opening a Window into the Arab World
The Jane Addams Peace Association invited the Middle East Children’s Alliance to develop content for this month’s themed issue, Opening a Window to the Arab World. We are inspired by […]
Lucia M. Garcia & Lulu Delacre: Special Librarians and Special Stories
Meet Lulu Delacre, illustrator, and Lucia M. Gonzalez, author, of the 2009 Jane Addams Children’s Book Award Honor Title for Younger Children, ‘The Storyteller’s Candle/La velita de los cuentos.’ […]
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Movements for Social Change
The theme for this month’s newsletter is movements for social change. We selected two Jane Addams Children’s Book Award winners that feature politically savvy women who advocated for civil rights. […]
Environmental Justice
The theme for this month’s newsletter is environmental justice. We selected two Jane Addams Children’s Book Award winners that feature characters who responded to environmental and public health challenges that […]