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Showing posts with label Pub year 2016. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pub year 2016. Show all posts
Sunday, November 24, 2019

Not Recommended: THE SACRIFICE by Diane Matcheck

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A reader wrote to ask if we've seen The Sacrifice by Diane Matcheck. It was published in 2016 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Macmillan). ...
Sunday, September 09, 2018

Recommended! BABY RAVEN and BABY EAGLE by Crystal Worl

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If there is a basket (or shelf) of board books in your home, classroom, or library, you best get Baby Eagle and Baby Raven . They&...
Sunday, July 22, 2018

Not recommended: LUMP LUMP AND THE BLANKET OF DREAMS by Gwen Jackson

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Over the last year or so, I've had several emails asking me about Lump Lump and the Blanket of Dreams. Written by Gwen Jackson, the su...
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Sunday, April 15, 2018

Debbie--have you seen Marie Lu's "The Journey" in A TYRANNY OF PETTICOATS?

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A Native reader wrote to ask me about Marie Lu's "The Journey" in A Tyranny of Petticoats" published by Candlewick Press ...
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Sunday, September 24, 2017

Not Recommended: SUSANNA MOODIE: ROUGHING IT IN THE BUSH, A GRAPHIC NOVEL by Carol Shields and Patrick Crowe

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Today, AICL is launching a new feature. I'm calling it Reviewed On Twitter and it will have its own label. Sometimes, I tweet that I got...
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Friday, June 23, 2017

Debbie--have you seen BLOWBACK '07 by Brian Meehl?

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A reader writes to ask if I've seen Blowback '07 by Brian Meehl. I haven't but will look for it. Here's the description: ...
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Saturday, March 18, 2017

Librarians Noting Problems in Nonfiction Series: First Peoples of North America, by Cassie Lawton

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One of the more gratifying kind of emails I get is from librarians who are bringing a critical lens to nonfiction. Recently I had an email...
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Friday, February 24, 2017

Why is Navajo gr-gr-grandmother in THE KILLER IN ME by Margot Harrison

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Margot Harrison's The Killer In Me is amongst the books the Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) listed in 2016, as having sign...
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Thursday, February 23, 2017

Not recommended: SCAR: A REVOLUTIONARY WAR TALE by J. Albert Mann

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You know that advice.... or that teaching... where you're supposed to look for the good? Where you're supposed to highlight the go...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Debbie--have you seen REZ RUNAWAY by Melanie Florence?

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Yesterday's review of Melanie Florence's Missing Nimama generated a lot of private email and social media from Native people who a...
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Thursday, January 05, 2017

Not recommended: RUNS WITH COURAGE by Joan M. Wolf

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I do not recommend Runs With Courage , published in 2016 by Sleeping Bear Press. Written by Joan M. Wolf, it has several kinds of problems...
Monday, December 26, 2016

Dan Gemeinhart's SOME KIND OF COURAGE

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Way back in January or February, a reader wrote to ask me about Dan Gemeinhart's Some Kind of Courage . I put it into my "Debbie--h...
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