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Friday July 9 -
add your thoughts to the TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (Part I) readalong discussion
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An educator's creative TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD lesson (fab guest post!)
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Friday July 23 - add your thoughts to the TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (Part I) readalong discussion
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Winners! Lots of winners!

I’ve had several giveaways running over the past week or so; here, in a combined post, I’ll announce the winners:

First up are two copies of Rachel Simmon’s The Curse of the Good Girl (my review).  A copy of this smart and practical book will be going to:

#6 – Sandy
#14 – amandasue

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Next is an MP3 Audio [...]

Audiobook giveaway: *Inheriting the Trade* by Thomas N. DeWolf

Thomas N. DeWolf shared a guest post yesterday, in which he spoke of “no time like the present” for meaningful conversations about diversity, tolerance, and justice in the U.S.

DeWolf has recently published Inheriting the Trade.  This is a memoir about his experiences during the making of a documentary film, Traces of the Trade: A Story [...]

Guest Post: *Inheriting the Trade* author Thomas N. DeWolf

Tom DeWolf (photo credit Deborah Howe)

2009 will surely be remembered as a year chock-full of “teachable moments” about race in the United States. Our nation’s first black president nominated the first Hispanic woman to the Supreme Court. Charges of racism in connection with both a Philadelphia swim club’s banning of a minority day care [...]