Rapper Lonnie Rashid Lynn, AKA “Common” has created the Common Ground Foundation which is commited to “empowering youth in urban neighborhoods and providing life skills needed to achieve their dreams.” His website is all about literacy and the current read is Long Way Gone. I’m going to have to check out this young man’s music… Read More My Kind of vision!
I could put myself out of business with this posting! If you’re here because of your passion for multicultural literature, you really must start reading the Brown Bookshelf. Authors Paula Chase Hyman, Varian Johnson, Don Tate, Kelly Starling Lyons and Carla Sarratt collaborate to put forth a plethora of information and resources. Coming this summer… Read More Site of the Week: The Brown Bookshelf
La Bloga is one of my favorite blogs! Posts usually consist of several different items of interest and this month is no exception. I found a new book for YA’s by Sandra Lopez, a new play by Carmen Aguirre (who starred in Quinceañera) and perused a great list titles that will be read by the… Read More Blog of the Week
Latina YA is back to blogging with a recent interview featuring author Kim Flores.
U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings; Wendy Bhagat, senior vice president, First Book; and Heidi Kilgras, editorial director, Random House Children’s Books today announced the availability of free books through the 2008 Summer Reading Initiative. Announced at Edward Brooke Charter School in Boston, Mass., the Initiative marks the first stage of a national distribution of… Read More 2008 Summer Reading Initiative
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