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News from the Internet: Keeping Up with the Publishing Industry by Narda Lacey Fargotstein

11 Wednesday Mar 2015

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One great thing about the Internet is that you can subscribe to newsletters from the sites you like to visit, for free. Once you subscribe, their newest issues show up automatically in your email. You can create folders in your email to file the issues as they appear, so you can look at them later. You don’t even have to remember the URL or remember to look at your favorites. They just send them to you.

If you are ever stuck for ideas, these newsletters seem to arrive just in time with the solution to your story problem, or to jog your memory for a new story.

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Common Core and Children’s Book Writers by Karen Sampson

11 Wednesday Feb 2015

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Schools need more books! Wouldn’t it be great if they had them? According to Daniel Rios, a tenured teacher of over 10 years and now Operations Administrator of the new charter school CALSTEAM in Encino, that idea is the very “core” of common core. With a focus on language and facts, literature becomes the best stage for teachers to develop focused and engaging lesson plans. Daniel_Rios_Common_Core_1

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Great News! & Classes

14 Wednesday Jan 2015

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GREAT NEWS

Audible has purchased the rights to do audio books of the YA speculative fiction novels A Girl Called Fearless and its sequel A Girl Undone by Catherine Linka.

Alexis O’Neill’s newest picture book, The Kite That Bridged Two Nations, received a Eureka! Honor Award for Children’s Nonfiction Books at the fall conference of the California Reading Association.

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