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A consciousness-raising epic beginning at the start of the slave trade. I finished this book over Thanksgiving and can't stop thinking about it and recommending it.

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A VERY easy read with a twist at the end that I did not see coming!

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https://www.amazon.com/Vanishing-Half-Novel-Brit-Bennett/dp/0525536299
@onemorepaige recommendation

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Children's Books:
There Might Be Lobsters (super cute & main character has my daughters name, great family read)

Mr. Peabody's Apples (3-5) by Madonna

Adult Books:
Time Management: Increase Your Personal Productivity and Effectiveness by Harvard Business Review

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Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Run Away by Harlan Coben (love reading his books, they always pull me in.  I finished this one in 3 days.)

Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

Up next...
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

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When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson & Omar Mohamed

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When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson & Omar Mohamed

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Just started this middle-grade graphic novel and enjoying it so far! Here is a quick synopsis from Goodreads:

Omar and his younger brother, Hassan, have spent most of their lives in Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya. Life is hard there: never enough food, achingly dull, and without access to the medical care Omar knows his nonverbal brother needs. So when Omar has the opportunity to go to school, he knows it might be a chance to change their future . . . but it would also mean leaving his brother, the only family member he has left, every day.

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The Tooth Fairy Meets El Ratón Pérez by René Colato Laínez

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The Tooth Fairy Meets El Ratón Pérez by René Colato Laínez

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I just got a copy of this backlist picture book title and what a treat it is! As I child, whenever I lost a tooth I never received a visit from The Tooth Fairy, but instead from El Ratón Pérez. In this picture book, a Mexican American young boy has just lost his tooth and both characters from American and Mexican fairy tales come to see who can rightfully take the young boy's tooth.

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Adult pick for the week! Roxane Gay is a favorite author whose stories are deeply thought-provoking. Just started this collection of short stories.

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Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina

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Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina

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Middle-grade pick for the week! So far a great coming-of-age story filled with dealing with frenemies, coping with family health issues and humor.

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Teaching Writing by Lucy Calkins

Untamed by Glennon Doyle

Ghost Boys by Jewel Parker Rhodes

I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown

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Stamped: Racism, Anti-racism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

White Fragility:  Why its so hard for white people to talk about racism.  by Robin DeAngelo

A Race Is  Nice Thing to Have: A Guide to Being a White Person or Understanding the White Persons in Your Life by Janet E. Helms (PD Cohort)

The Listening Leader...again <3

Teaching Writing by Lucy Calkins

The Pink Steering Wheel Chronicles: A Love Story by Laura Fahrenhold

Writing Radar: Using Your Journal to Snoop Out and Craft Great Stories by Jack Gantos

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A tutu wearing teacher twirling her way through Kindergarten and sharing all about it!

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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

The Last Last-Day-Of-Summer by Lamar Giles

Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes

The Honest Truth by Dan Gemeinhart

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Richardson

The Magicians by Lev Grossman

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Permission to Feel: Marc Brackett

Stamped from the Beginning
and How To Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

Before We Were Yours: Lisa Wingate

The Listening Leader: Shane Safir

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White Fragility:  Why its so hard for white people to talk about racism.  by Robin DeAngelo

My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me: A Memoir by Jason Rosenthal

Finally finishing Becoming by Michelle Obama :)

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Mr Smith Vargas' Summer Reading List - I'm hoping to read these this Summer since I won't be teaching Summer School!

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Mr Smith Vargas' Summer Reading List - I'm hoping to read these this Summer since I won't be teaching Summer School!

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White Fragility:  Why its so hard for white people to talk about racism.  by Robin DeAngelo

Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? and other conversations about race. by Beverly Daniel Tatum Ph.D.

Stamped from the Beginning
and How To Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism by James W. Loewen

The New Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America by Juan Gonzalez

and

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Ensavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon