Deanna Day
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Member Since
November 2008
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Deanna Day
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Jarred Nelson’s review
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Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright! An animal poem for every day of the year
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Every year publishers publish poetry anthologies like this so look for them and purchase one someday so that you can read aloud a poem to your student
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Deanna Day
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Jarred Nelson's review
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Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual:
"Date published: 2022
Award: CORETTA SCOTT KING ILLUSTRATOR AWARD Genre: realistic fiction Summary/like or dislike it: This book was truly a masterpiece and blessing to read and honestly I wasn’t expecting nor counting on it to be this enjoyable or grea" Read more of this review » |
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"Date published: 2023
Award: Sibert medal Genre: children’s literature, children’s non fiction Review/summary: this is actually such a great wonderful story to read, but even better to have read to us. The story follows jumper a spider basically going a" Read more of this review » |
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Deanna Day
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Brianna’s review
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Stealing Little Moon: The Legacy of the American Indian Boarding Schools (Scholastic Focus)
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This book is on my pile to read. So glad you got to read this new winning novel about our history.
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Brianna--So glad you read and enjoyed this book. I thought it was really good too.
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Deanna Day
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Veronika Rakchev’s review
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What I Must Tell the World: How Lorraine Hansberry Found Her Voice
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Great review! I definitely need to learn about Lorraine Hansberry.
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Deanna Day
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Emoen Meadors’s review
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Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship
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I agree with you this is an amazing poetry book. I think all teachers should own and read aloud from to their students.
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"Date: 2023
Genre: Middle grade, realistic fiction, YA Award: Charlotte Huck Award This book is about an eleven-year old girls grief and loss of her father to racial violence being a metaphor of the fear of an asteroid collision. When Kemi Carter hears t" Read more of this review » |
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