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When Ada Blackjack and the four other members of a Canadian team first stepped foot on Wrangel Island, north of Siberia, in 1921 to claim its craggy Arctic terrain for Great Britain, they had no idea how doomed their expedition was. Blackjack, an Inuit woman, was along to cook and sew in order to ma

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Happy National Storytelling week! Read below to find out what the CRP staff has read and listened to this week.

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On the eastern edge of Concord, Massachusetts, just off Virginia Road, there stands a simple white and red Georgian-style home surrounded by a quaint stone fence. It’s where Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817, and now, nearly two hundred years later, it’s where Henry David Thoreau for Kids aut…

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This week we asked our staff what books they try to read every year. Check out the responses below!

For a while, I was trying to read The Catcher in the Rye as often as possible, just about every other year. One of the great things about rereading that book so many times is that at a certain poin…

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Looking for some additional reading in observation of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day? We've compiled nine titles to help kids and adults learn more about Dr. King, the era he lived in, and the impact of his life.

 

The Civil Rights Movement for Kids by Mary C. Turck



Children disco…

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Inspired by last week's Staff Reads we asked our authors with books pubbing in the early months of 2016 what they read over the holidays.

 

Tim Hanley (Investigating Lois Lane): Inspired by Chinese mythology, Cindy Pon's Serpentine is unique and dark, and a wonderful read. This YA novel d…

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Londoner Nick Soulsby, editor of Cobain on Cobain: Interviews and Encounters is the author of I Found My Friends: The Oral History of Nirvana and Dark Slivers: Seeing Nirvana in the Shards of Incesticide. He blogs about the band on his website, Nirvana Legacy. Here Nick shares his thoughts …

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Staff Reads are back after the holidays! What books and articles did we read (or not read) over the break?

Bookwise, I’m still working my way through 2666. It’s long and a bit of a slog, but I’ve had the chance to break up the effort with some valuable magazine articles that I came across…

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Brandon Marie Miller has been a history buff essentially since birth. Her parents, both teachers, took her on frequent trips to museums and historical sites, she studied American history and art history at Purdue, and she’s written nine history books for children and young adults, including Benjam…

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For the last Staff Reads post of 2015 we asked everyone in the office to recall their favorite books either given or received during the holidays. The responses ranged from sentimental to hilarious. #CRPread


 

Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris has long been a favorite book to give around t

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