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    Celebrating 20 Years of <i>Funny in Farsi</i>: A Special Message from Author Firoozeh Dumas to Educators
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    Celebrating 20 Years of Funny in Farsi: A Special Message from Author Firoozeh Dumas to Educators

    Contributed by Firoozeh Dumas, author of Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America. 2023 marks the 20-year anniversary of the groundbreaking memoir, which has remained a classroom favorite for two decades.  When I was in high school, a major news outlet took a poll to find out the most unpopular country

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    Connecting Through Literature: A Story of a Teacher and Her Student

    Contributed by Michelle Kuo, author of Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship Every teacher has likely experienced two emotions: the feeling that you’ve gotten through to a student and the feeling that you’ve let him down. In the first, the classroom is a powerful place of human connection, and the

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    Connecting Through Literature: A Story of a Teacher and Her Student

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    A Reader’s Guide for Parents and Students to Use at Home

    Dear Readers, Are you stuck at home, right now? Me, too. I can hear the laundry spinning in the dryer and smell overripe bananas piled on the kitchen counter. I’m spending a lot of time looking out the window, too, because I’d really like to go outside and talk to people. But I’m not supposed

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    Author Essay: <i>The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh</i> by Candace Fleming
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    Author Essay: The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh by Candace Fleming

    Charles Lindbergh: Comparing the Past to the Present It began with the Lindbergh baby kidnapping.  That was the story I originally intended to tell.  But as I began corralling my research, the dominant personality that was Charles Lindbergh soon overshadowed everything and everyone else.  He was so complicated, so contradictory, so compelling.  To me, he

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    Author’s Note: <i>Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know</i> by Samira Ahmed
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    Author’s Note: Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know by Samira Ahmed

    Dear Reader, This story is fiction. But it also tells the truth. All stories start with a seed and for me that seed was planted years ago when I first crossed paths with Lord Byron’s epic poem, The Giaour, along with his deeply ingrained Orientalism and sexism. In college, I took a class that centered around

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