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Go buy yourselves some great books for the holidays!

12/4/2018

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1. December is the month of End of Year Best of the Best Book Lists! Here are the lists for: 
Amazon's Top 20 Picks for the Best Books of the Year So Far

Chicago Tribune 10 Best Books of 2018 
Goodreads Choice Awards 2018 
Library Reads Favorite of Favorites 2018 
NYPL Best Books for Teens 
The New York Times (10 Best of the Year) 
The New York Times (100 Notable Books of 2018)
The New Yorker's Best Books of 2018

NPR’s Book Concierge 
Publishers Weekly Best Books 2018 
School Library Journal Best Books 2018
 

2. Kate DiCamillo on the magic of reading aloud. 

3. NewsGuard is a new organization that employs journalists to combat misinformation, 24 hours a day. Download it as a free Google Chrome extension and see the reliability ratings of the news resources you visit and use in real time! 

4. Some of our lucky 9th and 10th graders got to attend the National Book Awards’ Teen Press Conference last month and got to see all five YA finalists read excerpts of their books! Here is the list of which titles won across all categories. 

5. The Library of Congress just launched Crowd, where you can volunteer to transcribe Abraham Lincoln’s letters and letters home from Civil War soldiers. 

6. NYC Digital Safety is “a new initiative to bring resources covering digital privacy and data security to the City’s frontline public library staff”. Check out their modules and consider sharing them with your students! 

7. “TeachRock is a standards-aligned, arts integration curriculum that uses the history of popular music and culture to help teachers engage students.” Get it today, free of charge! 

8. Google recently launched Grow with Google, a platform that provides free training, tools, and events to support teachers, students, job seekers, and entrepreneurs. 

9. The Gray Lady and Google Images are getting hitched! 
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10. “NASA just made their entire media library publicly-accessible and copyright free!”
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