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Jennifer Nielsen may be known for her fantasy novels like The Once and Future Prince, but she has a number of young adult historical novels, and Resistance is one of them. The heroine of the story is Chaya Lindner, a Jewish teenage resistance fighter in the midst of the Holocaust. Because she can pass as… Read more
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A Novel You Simply Must Read! A fellow writer acquaintance recommended I read Between Shades of Gray and it’s one of the best pieces of advice I have ever followed. When Ruta Sepetys published Between Shades of Gray she immediately had a problem in that the title was similar to that horribly written novel… Read more
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People have said you can teach any subject at any age. Jill Paton Walsh’s The Green Book is proof of that. The plot centers around a group of families who leave earth to make a new home on an alien planet. The story tells virtually nothing about their life before leaving Earth or about the… Read more
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Oklahoma state schools superintendent Ryan Walters is creating an Office of Religious Liberty and Patriotism and is requiring every district in the state to show a video discussing the new office. He is also reported to be ordering hundreds of Bibles for distribution in Oklahoma classrooms. Several school districts are refusing to show the video… Read more
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The governments of two conservative states are now requiring the Bible and the Ten Commandments to be taught in their public schools. Oklahoma is requiring every classroom in the state to have a Bible and all teachers must incorporate the Bible and the Ten Commandments in their curriculum. Louisiana is requiring the Ten Commandments be… Read more
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