Libraries, Literature & Learning

A collection about writers, their books, and more. It's all about literature and learning! Visit your school library to learn even more!

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Dinah Johnson | National Book Month
Dinah Johnson | National Book Month
Episode 9

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Dinah Johnson is a children's book author and a professor of English who specializes in African-American children's literature. In Dinah Johnson's book, All Around Town, we experience the lives of...
Betsy Byars' Books | National Book Month
Betsy Byars' Books | National Book Month
Episode 4

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Books by Betsy Byars: The Midnight Fox Trouble River The Summer of the Swans The House of Wings The Winged Colt of Casa Mia The 18th Emergency After the Goat Man The TV Kid The Pinballs The Cartoonist...
Betsy Byars | National Book Month
Betsy Byars | National Book Month
Episode 3

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Betsy Byars is an author of over 60 books for young people. Her book Summer of the Swans won the Newbery medal in 1971, and her works have been translated into nineteen different languages! Betsy and...
What Can You Write About? | National Book Month
What Can You Write About? | National Book Month
Episode 14

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You probably have some ideas about your story now. Look at your field notes and the rest of your research. What in the world can you write about? For more information on April Pulley Sayre's books...
Pages of History: Mid 20th Century | Carolina Stories
Episode 6

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William Watts Ball, who had previously worked at The Evening Post and The State, became the new editor. He was an outspoken critic of “The New Deal”, along with too much government, and these views...
The Civil War At 150 (Full Version)
Episode 8

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Dr. James McPherson, professor emeritus of American History at Princeton University, won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom, which has since sold more than six hundred thousand copies...