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  • Common Core Standards and Banned Books Week

    A Thematic Guide to Introducing Banned and Challenged Books in the Classroom

    by Pat Scales ...
    Banned Books Week is celebrated the last full week in September and strives to make the public aware of books that have been banned or challenged in schools and public libraries, as well as in bookstores and other venues. Founded in 1982, the event is sponsored by the American Library Association, American Booksellers Association, American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, American ... Read more

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  • Common Core Standards and World War II

    A Literary Veteran's Day Observance

    by Pat Scales ...
    President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a five-star general and commander of the Allied Forces in Europe during World War II, established a committee in 1954 to plan a Veterans Day observance. This day honors all veterans of the United States and is held each year on November 11 with a somber ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. A wreath is placed on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and followed by a ... Read more

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  • Defending Frequently Challenged Young Adult Books

    A Handbook for Librarians and Educators

    by Pat R. Scales ...
    A Day No Pigs Would Die, Speak, Thirteen Reasons Why These are some of the most beloved, and most challenged, books. Leaving controversial titles such as these out of your collection or limiting their access is not the answer to challenges.While ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom reports more than 4,500 challenges to young adult literature from 2000 through 2009. This authoritative handbook ... Read more

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  • Scales on Censorship

    Real Life Lessons from School Library Journal

    by Pat R. Scales ...
    Pat Scales has been a passionate advocate for intellectual freedom long before she launched the “Scales on Censorship” column with School Library Journal in 2006. Decades of experience as a school librarian informs her ongoing work on these important and often volatile issues, as did her tenure in leadership roles on the American Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Committee and at the ... Read more

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  • Common Core Standards and Black History Month

    A Thematic Guide to Black History in Literature and Informational Texts for Middle School Educators

    by Pat Scales ...
    Black History Month is a time when all Americans celebrate the rich African American culture in our society. It was Carter G. Woodson, an African American historian, who began a weeklong celebration, called Negro History Week, in 1926 as a way to honor Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. Now schools, libraries, churches, and communities find special ways to honor the contributions of African ... Read more

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    by Edward Bellamy ...
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  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Series series Starbooks Classics Collection
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