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LitLinks: 3 easy ways to explore your drinking water

LitLinks: 3 easy ways to explore your drinking water

Feb 16, 2022

GUEST BLOGGER NANCY CASTALDO Water is life! All organisms on Earth need it to survive...

LitLinks: #KidsLoveNonfiction – Tell the New York Times you want best-seller lists for children’s nonfiction

LitLinks: #KidsLoveNonfiction – Tell the New York Times you want best-seller lists for children’s nonfiction

Feb 14, 2022

GUEST BLOGGERS MARY ANN CAPPIELLO AND XENA HADJIOANNOU Announcing the #KidsLoveNonfiction Campaign This morning at...

LitLinks: Climb into the minds of scientists with biographies

LitLinks: Climb into the minds of scientists with biographies

Jan 26, 2022

GUEST BLOGGER J. CARRIE LAUNIUS AND CHRISTINE ANNE ROYCE Science as a human endeavor: Biographies...

LitLinks: Voyager’s Golden Record: An easy classroom remix for your space unit

LitLinks: Voyager’s Golden Record: An easy classroom remix for your space unit

Dec 22, 2021

GUEST BLOGGER ALEXANDRA SIY The original Golden Record In 1977, NASA launched the twin Voyager...

LitLinks: Will our world run dry? Easy ways to help students raise their voices about water

LitLinks: Will our world run dry? Easy ways to help students raise their voices about water

Dec 15, 2021

GUEST BLOGGER NANCY CASTALDO What if, one day, you turned on the faucet and nothing...

LitLinks: Giving thanks for our tremendous bloggers and readers

LitLinks: Giving thanks for our tremendous bloggers and readers

Nov 24, 2021

BY PATRICIA NEWMAN Your faithful bloggers are taking a week off to give thanks for...

LitLinks: Watch kindness multiply! Easy math + ELA connections

LitLinks: Watch kindness multiply! Easy math + ELA connections

Oct 27, 2021

GUEST BLOGGER SARAH LYNN SCHEERGER What is altruism? How does it help us all? Altruism...

LitLinks: Easy way to practice students’ primary source interview skills

LitLinks: Easy way to practice students’ primary source interview skills

Oct 20, 2021

GUEST BLOGGER KATHRYN HULICK I once spoke to an expert on parallel universes while he...

LitLinks: Can smoke be useful? A research challenge for students

LitLinks: Can smoke be useful? A research challenge for students

Oct 6, 2021

GUEST BLOGGER HENRY HERZ Pre-reading I Am Smoke is a spare, lyrical, “autobiographical” account of...

LitLinks: Easy lessons on biomimicry and robot design that WOW! students

LitLinks: Easy lessons on biomimicry and robot design that WOW! students

Sep 8, 2021

GUEST BLOGGER LINDA ZAJAC Objective Students will learn about biomimicry and be able to design...

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    • Sharks Unhooked: The Adventures of Cristina Zenato, Underwater Ranger
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    • A River’s Gifts: The Mighty Elwha River Reborn
    • Planet Ocean
    • Eavesdropping on Elephants
    • Neema’s Reason To Smile
    • Zoo Scientists to the Rescue
    • Sea Otter Heroes: The Predators That Saved an Ecosystem
    • Plastic, Ahoy! Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
    • Ebola: Fears and Facts
    • Jingle the Brass
    • Nugget on the Flight Deck
    • Surviving Animal Attacks
    • Elite Operations series
    • Energy Lab series
    • QuickReads Fluency Library
    • Books for English language-learners
    • Writers write all kinds of things
  • Author Visit Programs
    • FAQs
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    • LitLinks
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  • Writer Resources
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    • How I got my start
  • Who is Patricia Newman?
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