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Month: December 2021

Book Reviews

Where Reasons End

  • Posted on December 31, 2021December 31, 2021
  • by Lauren

I’d started this novel by award-winning Yiyun Li at least five times since it was published in 2019. I finally sat down with it, reading once through and then again to take notes, in early…

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Melissa

  • Posted on December 17, 2021December 31, 2021
  • by Lauren

I just finished reading the brilliant middle-grade debut, George, by Alex Gino with my sixth graders this winter. The novel is about George embracing her identity as Melissa. The book layers in so much about…

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Turkey Term

  • Posted on December 4, 2021December 5, 2021
  • by Lauren

We are in that funky period post-Thanksgiving break and pre-Winter Break at NCS. The English Department Chairperson refers to these two and a half weeks as Turkey Term. In sixth grade, we’re working on poetry.…

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