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A Library for Juana Now an Ebook

A Library for Juana: The World of Sor Juana Inés is now available as an ebook from StarWalk Kids Media. Every eBook in the StarWalk Kids Library comes with a free Teaching Links guide that includes suggestions for CCSS correlation and ideas for using materials to deliver on Common Core State Standards at various grade levels.

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Pat in the Classroom

Watch a short video from Annenberg Learner of Pat engaging with middle school students. She discusses her work with students in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and reads her poem “Ode to Courage,” which is based on the experience of a girl for whom English is her second language. Mora describes how she tries in her work to invite the reader to look at the people who are often ignored. “One of my hopes is that the literature makes us all more compassionate,” says Mora. “Literature helps us cross borders...

Students Perform Tomas and the Library Lady

Watch a video about Pat’s visit to Perkins Elementary School in Des Moines, Iowa. With the help of Des Moines Performing Arts’ Applause Series, each class did a different type of performance based on their experience of reading Tomás and the Library Lady.

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Read Across America Day

A poem for Read Across America Day.

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Estela & Raúl Mora Award 2014

REFORMA, the National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-speaking, invites applications for the 2014 Mora Award. The Award is presented annually to the most exemplary culminating celebrations of El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Children’s Day/Book Day), or El día de los jovenes/El día de los libros (Youth Day/Book Day), also known as Día. Annual, culminating celebrations are held across the country on or near April 30. Libraries, school...

A Valentine for All

Feliz Día del Amor y la Amistad, Happy Valentine’s and Friendship Day!

Photo by Louise Docker. Creative Commons license.

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Middlemarch and the BBC?

The cover of the January 26, 2014 issue of the New York Times Book Review is a review of My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead. I had never read George Eliot’s thick Victorian novel and finished it about the time Middlemarch began to receive current attention thanks to Mead’s book. As a writer, I kept asking myself: how did Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans) do it? How did she write this much text and keep the various romances and plot elements straight without a computer? How did she write this i...

Monica Brown on All Things Considered

Enjoy this insightful NPR interview with my wonderful and talented friend Monica Brown.

“It wasn’t until I had children … that I decided to write for children,” Brown tells NPR’s Arun Rath. “I knew I wanted to write stories that reflected the multi-ethnic, bilingual nature of my own family.”

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New Mexico International Reading Association Conference

Pat introduced her new book, I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE, at the recent New Mexico International Reading Association (NMIRA) conference in Albuquerque. She enjoyed chatting with attendees including Dr. W.D. Thompson. Pat wrote this book with her daughter Libby Martinez.

I was honored to present to the New Mexico IRA this weekend. I always learn from audiences, and I so enjoyed listening to the teachers who were spending their Saturday thinking about how to be more effective. I was saddened to hear how...