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Not Fade Away: Ten years after 9/11, how do you teach kids about a tragedy...
By Frances Jacobson Harris September 11, 2001, wasn’t a normal day for most of us. The students at my Illinois high school packed into the library to watch the nonstop news coverage. Those in...
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On the Radar: Top Picks from the Editors at Junior Library Guild: A Look Back...
Every anniversary of 9/11, we often remember heroes—past and present. Some are elected officials or military personnel. Others are everyday folks who decided to take a stand or try something different....
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SLJ/LJ Resources for September 11
September 11 marks a difficult anniversary. To help children’s and young adult librarians navigate the challenging teachable moments that the day might raise and to guide those librarians working in...
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SLJ’s News Coverage of 9/11
Don Brown’s America Under Attack, published on the 10-year anniversary of September 11. The link below is a PDF of SLJ‘s original news coverage about the fateful day that the World Trade Center and...
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Throwback Thursday: Their Professionalism Kicked In
On that bright morning of September 11, 2001, School Library Journal staffers arrived at work, ready to put the finishing touches on the October issue. Shortly thereafter, we were gazing out the...
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Then and Now: Wendy Mills on 9/11 and “All We Have Left”
It’s hard to believe that 15 years have passed since two airplanes flew into the Twin Towers in New York City and thousands of people perished. In All We Have Left (Bloomsbury, Aug. 9, 2016), Wendy...
View ArticleThe Red Bandanna by Tom Rinaldi | SLJ Review
RINALDI, Tom. The Red Bandanna. 176p. bibliog. photos. Viking. Sept. 2017. Tr $17.99. ISBN 9780425287620. Gr 6-8 –Before leaving for church one day, Jeff Crowther gave his then seven-year-old son,...
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Libraries address Islamophobia in a time of bans, raids, and walls.
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