Great Books Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Those Shoes
Maribeth Boelts
Happy Birthday Maribeth Boelts! Check out how engaged, excited, and happy first-graders at Blaine Elementary School (@OurSchoolRocks) were to discuss her story "Those Shoes" not long ago! #JuniorGreatBooks #collaboration https://t.co/vlN3G5IUBH
Paperback, 2009
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Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner
Toni Morrison
We treasure Toni Morrison, writer of The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved, and many more—critically acclaimed and widely honored, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the #PulitzerPrize, and the #NobelPrize in Literature. #BlackHistoryMonth https://t.co/L5GpExvbSS
Paperback, 2004
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Down the Road
Alice Schertle
Featured in #JuniorGreatBooks Series K for kindergartners, "Down the Road" is written by Alice Schertle and illustrated by @iameblewis. #BlackHistoryMonth #CelebrateBlackHistory #RepresentationMatters #TeachersofInstagram #librariansofInstagram #classroomlibrary #lifelonglearners https://t.co/Q5PYOL4yML
Paperback, 2000
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Bad Feminist
Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay is the author of The New York Times bestseller Bad Feminist, as well as the short story collection Ayiti, the novel An Untamed State, the short story collection Difficult Women, and the memoir Hunger. #BlackHistoryMonth #CelebrateBlackHistory #RepresentationMatters https://t.co/ekOaMZmwoQ
Paperback, 2014
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James and the Giant Peach
Roald Dahl
Happy birthday Roald Dahl 🎉. This great storyteller for children was born this day in 1916. James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda . . . so many fantastic and fantastical stories. What's your favorite? #JuniorGreatBooks https://hubs.li/H0X8S0b0 https://t.co/0sOHg2buWn
Paperback, 2007
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Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Zz Packer
Read ZZ Packer's "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere," a story from her critically acclaimed debut collection of the same name, in Her Own Accord: American Women on Identity, Culture, and Community. https://t.co/yAyqqgsFD3 #BlackHistoryMonth #CelebrateBlackHistory #RepresentationMatters https://t.co/S0xpdFnihE
Paperback, 2004
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