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Book Review: Call Us What We Carry

by Hollie Nielsen, AWC Central Scotland 

 AG Book Poetry March 2022

March is Poetry Month, and the Ed Team encourages you to read some poems this month! In particular, we recommend the poems of  presidential inaugural poet and youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman in her book Call Us What We Carry. Ms. Gorman’s book is especially relevant this month because the Ed Team is focusing on...

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Book Review: Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

by Hollie Nielsen, AWCC Scotland

Ed Team Book Review February 2022Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools provides interesting but troubling reading. Author Monique W. Morris describes, often in narratives that individualize the problem, how Black girls’ behavior in middle and high schools is crimininalized, pushing the girls out of school. This pushing out makes it difficult for the girls to obtain the quality education...

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Book Review: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Reviewed by Carol-Lyn McKelvey, FAUSA & AIWC Cologne

Caste Book cover Ed Team Jan 22With Martin Luther King, Jr. Day just celebrated and Black History Month upon us in the US, it seems an appropriate time to dig deeper into the history of African Americans. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson is a masterpiece of research into past and present realities, yet easily accessible.

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Book Review: What is a Perfect World?

by Hollie Nielsen, AWC Central Scotland

This month the Education Team recommends reading What is a Perfect World?, a book written by Nancy Lynner (AWC Central Scotland), illustrated by Tharien van Eck (AWC Antwerp), designed by Joyce Halsan (AWC Central Scotland) and produced by Amanda Drollinger (AWC Central Scotland). This fun book allows readers to discuss eleven different world issues with young children and highlights the important work the children can...

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Book Review: The Rainbow Troops

by Hollie Nielsen, AWCC Scotland

 

The Rainbow Troops by Andrea HirataScreen Shot 2021 10 22 at 3.55.01 PM

The Rainbow Troops is Andrea Hirata’s closely autobiographical debut novel of 2005. The story follows Ikal and his friends, nicknamed the Rainbow Troops, as they struggle to get an education in the poorest village school on the Indonesian island of Belitong. The children of the Indonesian Tin Company employees receive...

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