[ISLMA-Share] Do you know this book??

Tue Feb 28 14:05:07 CST 2017

Great book!

Mrs. Dawn Caveny
Librarian
St. Agnes School
217-793-1370

"Keep on, Keeping on!" Joyce Meyers

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Email list for the Illinois School
Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Thank you everyone!  It is The Watsons Go to Birmingham!
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> Happily Ever After,
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> *Karrie Fisher*
> Library Director &
> Photography Teacher
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> *"What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it thinks
> about education."  -- Harold Howe, former U.S. Commissioner of Education*
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> *Baker Demonstration School*
> 201 Sheridan Road | Wilmette, Illinois 60091
> t: 847-425-5800 | f: 847-425-5801
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> *Love to Learn, Cherish the Journey, Serve the World**
> <http://bakerdemschool.org>
> <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Baker-Demonstration-School/92910953966>
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> On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 9:45 AM, Email list for the Illinois School
> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
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>> Was it The Watson's go to Birmingham?
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>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 9:39 AM, Email list for the Illinois School
>> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
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>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>
>>> Oh my brilliant colleagues I need your help!  I have a teacher looking
>>> for the title of a book that a student gave a moving speech in class.  She
>>> can't remember the title, but here's what she remembers:
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>>>    - Civil rights story
>>>    - A kid calls another kid an ethnic slur and the word is
>>>    specifically mentioned in the text of the story
>>>    - There were themes of 3's involved (she can't remember what they
>>>    were)
>>>    - The book was read in many 4th grade social studies classes at the
>>>    time.
>>>    - It was a well-known book.
>>>    - The book was published before or around 1997
>>>
>>> This teacher is making a speech about the importance of diversity in
>>> schools and how
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>>> this particular book inspired a bi-racial child in her class to talk
>>> eloquently about the meaning and burden the this particular word held for
>>> him in his life.
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>>> Any ideas what book this could be?  Thanks in advance!
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>>> Happily Ever After,
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>>>
>>> *Karrie Fisher*
>>> Library Director &
>>> Photography Teacher
>>>
>>> *"What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it thinks
>>> about education."  -- Harold Howe, former U.S. Commissioner of Education*
>>>
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>>>
>>> *Baker Demonstration School*
>>> 201 Sheridan Road | Wilmette, Illinois 60091
>>> t: 847-425-5800 | f: 847-425-5801
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>>> *Love to Learn, Cherish the Journey, Serve the World**
>>> <http://bakerdemschool.org>
>>> <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Baker-Demonstration-School/92910953966>
>>> <https://twitter.com/BakerDem>* <https://instagram.com/bakerdem/>
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