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featuring Special Guest Author ANGELA CERVANTES
Grab a bagel, pour a cup of co ee, and nd a seat! Mr. Schu
and Angela Cervantes will discuss Angela’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 Angela 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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ANGELA CERVANTES is the author of several beloved contemporary middle-grade novels, including: Gaby, Lost and Found; Allie, First at
Last; Me, Frida and the Secret of the Peacock Ring; Coco: The Junior Novelization that accompanied the 2017 blockbuster Disney/Pixar movie; and her newest middle-grade novel, Lety Out Loud (Scholastic). Angela began writing her stories featuring Latina main characters when she was nine years old because she wanted books about girls like her and her friends and family. Find her on Twitter @AngelaCervantes.
TIME
7:30 a.m. - 8:15 a.m.