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featuring Special Guest Author SAYANTANI DASGUPTA
Grab a bagel, pour a cup of co ee, and nd a seat! Mr. Schu
and Sayantani DasGupta will discuss Sayantani’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 Sayantani 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.
Click here for complete biography.
SAYANTANI DASGUPTA grew up hearing stories about brave princesses, bloodthirsty rakkhosh, and ying pakkhiraj horses. She is a pediatrician by training, but now teaches at Columbia University. When she’s not writing or reading, Sayantani spends time watching cooking shows with her trilingual children and protecting her black Labrador Retriever Khushi from the many things that scare him, including plastic bags. She is a team member of We Need Diverse BooksTM and can be found on
Twitter at @sayantani16.
TIME
7:30 a.m. - 8:15 a.m.