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Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.
It's that time of year where kids and teachers are back at school or almost back at school so we thought we would offer recommendations for books related to education—novels or memoirs set in schools or colleges; books with teachers, deans, students, or staff as characters; literature in which education or learning plays an important if not essential role.
Books mentioned in this episode:
1- The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera
2- Shanghailanders by Juli Min
3- A Five-Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Dawn Nacker @dawndevoursbooks - How To Read a Book by Monica Wood
4- Truly, Devious by Maureen Johnson
5- Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
6- The Faculty Lounge by Jennifer Matthieu
7- Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by RF Kuang
7- New Kid by Jerry Craft
8- The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
9- The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
10- The Gilded Years by Karin Tanabe
11- The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
12- True Biz by Sara Nović
13- Girl at War by Sara Nović
14- "All Summer in a Day" (short story) by Ray Bradbury
15- Love at First Book by Jenn McKinlay
16- The Rom-commers by Katherine Center
Bookish events—
1- Poe: A Dream Within a Dream
2- Untimely Ripp’d
3- Cincy Bookstore Crawl
4- Books by the Banks
5- Cynthiana KY Skeletons
6- Rail Explorers
7- Fenrir Viking Festival
8- New Kid by Jerry Craft Book Banning
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/28/1144458555/banned-books-author-jerry-craft-new-kid
Media mentioned—
1- The Whale Rider — 2002
2- Happiness for Beginners (Netflix, 2023)
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Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.
It's that time of year where kids and teachers are back at school or almost back at school so we thought we would offer recommendations for books related to education—novels or memoirs set in schools or colleges; books with teachers, deans, students, or staff as characters; literature in which education or learning plays an important if not essential role.
Books mentioned in this episode:
1- The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera
2- Shanghailanders by Juli Min
3- A Five-Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Dawn Nacker @dawndevoursbooks - How To Read a Book by Monica Wood
4- Truly, Devious by Maureen Johnson
5- Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
6- The Faculty Lounge by Jennifer Matthieu
7- Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by RF Kuang
7- New Kid by Jerry Craft
8- The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
9- The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
10- The Gilded Years by Karin Tanabe
11- The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
12- True Biz by Sara Nović
13- Girl at War by Sara Nović
14- "All Summer in a Day" (short story) by Ray Bradbury
15- Love at First Book by Jenn McKinlay
16- The Rom-commers by Katherine Center
Bookish events—
1- Poe: A Dream Within a Dream
2- Untimely Ripp’d
3- Cincy Bookstore Crawl
4- Books by the Banks
5- Cynthiana KY Skeletons
6- Rail Explorers
7- Fenrir Viking Festival
8- New Kid by Jerry Craft Book Banning
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/28/1144458555/banned-books-author-jerry-craft-new-kid
Media mentioned—
1- The Whale Rider — 2002
2- Happiness for Beginners (Netflix, 2023)

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