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featuring Special Guest Author JENNIFER L. HOLM
Grab a bagel, pour a cup of co ee, and nd a seat! Mr. Schu and Jennifer L. Holm will discuss Jennifer’s award-winning novels and the power of booktalking. If your students hear at least one booktalk every day, they will be introduced to 180 books during the school year. Imagine if every colleague on your campus booktalked every day. Mr. Schu and Jennifer will booktalk titles they hope will go directly from their hands to your heart.
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is a blogger, a part-time lecturer at Rutgers University, and the Ambassador of School Libraries for Scholastic Book Fairs®. Every day is a giant book party for this teacher-librarian! In
fact, Library Journal named him “The Xtreme Librarian” for the high level of exertion — along with some gears and stunts — he uses to get kids reading, and Instructor Magazine named him a “Cool Teacher” for rede ning what it means to be a teacher-librarian.
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JENNIFER L. HOLM is The New York Times best-selling and three-time Newbery Honor Winning author of multiple novels for young readers, including Sunny Side Up; Swing It, Sunny; and the forthcoming Sunny Rolls the Dice. With her brother Matthew, Jennifer created the graphic novel series Babymouse and Squish. She lives in California. Find her on Twitter @jenniholm.
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7:30 a.m. - 8:15 a.m.
Photo Credit: Saverio Truglia