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    Women's History Month

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    Exploring Dynamic Female Characters in Young Adult Literature

    Dynamic and flat characterization has been in language arts and English curricula forever, it seems. How do we up the rigor as students advance in...

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    Women's History Month Webinar: Celebrating Women Storytellers

    Join us for a conversation in partnership with Simon & Schuster with women YA and children's authors about the experience of being a woman in the...

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    Women’s History Month: Lifting As We Climb

    My favorite thing about Lifting As We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Boxby Evette Dionne is that it’s accurate, and the author highlights...

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    Women’s History Month: Fighting Words

    In Kimberly Brubaker Bradley’s Fighting Words, 10-year-old protagonist Della gives readers a front row seat to her daily life in foster care with her...

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    Women's History Month: I Am Malala

    In recent months, the Taliban in the Middle East has taken over once again after American troops removed themselves. The first person I thought of...

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    Women's History Month: The Girl with the Louding Voice

    The main character in The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré, Adunni, is on a personal journey to give herself the best life she can despite...

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    Women's History Month: Powerful Women

    If we all trace our lineage back generation by generation, you will almost always find a fearless woman at the forefront of care, kindness, and the...

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