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    FROM THE PAGE: An Excerpt from <i>Catch a Crayfish, Count the Stars: Fun Projects, Skills, and Adventures for Outdoor Kids</i>
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    FROM THE PAGE: An Excerpt from Catch a Crayfish, Count the Stars: Fun Projects, Skills, and Adventures for Outdoor Kids

    Catch a Crayfish, Count the Stars by Steven Rinella is a hands-on, gloves-off, muddy-boots activity book for young adventurers ages eight and up, offering fun projects and adventures to build lifelong skills and knowledge about the natural world, including identifying constellations, collecting fossils, learning about weather patterns, making art projects, and more. Read on for

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    FROM THE PAGE: An Excerpt from Lisa Damour, Ph.D.’s <i>The Emotional Lives of Teenagers</i>
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    FROM THE PAGE: An Excerpt from Lisa Damour, Ph.D.’s The Emotional Lives of Teenagers

    With so many of today’s teens contending with academic pressure, social media stress, worries about the future, and concerns about their own mental health, it’s easy for them to feel anxious and overwhelmed. But it doesn’t have to be that way. With clear, research-informed explanations alongside illuminating, real-life examples, The Emotional Lives of Teenagers gives

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    FROM THE PAGE: An Excerpt from Lisa Damour, Ph.D.’s The Emotional Lives of Teenagers

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    Read Kevin Young’s Introduction to <i>African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song</i>
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    Read Kevin Young’s Introduction to African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song

    From the introduction:  The Difficult Miracle                                  This is the difficult miracle of Black poetry in America:  that we persist, published or not, and loved or unloved: we persist.                                                                                                 –June Jordan For over 250 years, African Americans have written and recited and published poetry about beauty and injustice, music and muses, Africa and America, freedoms

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    Read an Excerpt From Brandon Hobson’s <i>Where the Dead Sit Talking</i>
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    Read an Excerpt From Brandon Hobson’s Where the Dead Sit Talking

    Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson explores the themes of loneliness and trauma as a young Native American boy named Sequoyah experiences life in the foster care system. This 2018 National Book Award Finalist is about a broken teenager’s search for his identity and the hardships of being displaced. Sequoyah lives his life with

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