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1. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Podcast Episode
   A Conversation with Laurie Halse Anderson
   In this episode, Laurie Halse Anderson talks about her newest book, Wintergirls.
2. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Podcast Episode
   A Conversation with Sara Zarr
   Tune in to hear Sara Zarr discuss religious faith and some of the thinking behind her newest novel, Once Was Lost.
3. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Podcast Episode
   Adults and Teens Reading Together
   Tune in to hear about eight new novels that all focus in some way on teens and their complicated relationships with family members, peers, and the larger world.
4. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Game & Tool
   Bio-Cube
   The Bio-Cube asks children to summarize information about a person for a biography or autobiography. The activity helps them learn how to identify and shorten key ideas.
5. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Podcast Episode
   Celebrating the NCTE African American Read-In
   Tune in for recommendations of both old and new titles by distinguished African American authors who write for teens.
6. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Podcast Episode
   Connecting with the Classics
   Tune in to hear about recent titles that retell or reinvent classic stories, others that reimagine the lives of classic authors, and still others that invoke classic texts in contemporary storylines.
7. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Game & Tool
   Crossword Puzzles
   The Crossword Puzzles tool lets children and teens choose from a selection of puzzles and solve them online. They can also create their own puzzles to solve online or print off.
8. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Podcast Episode
   Exploring History
   Hear about an amazing range of books that explore history, including works of fiction as well as non-fiction, biographies, graphic novels, verse novels, and investigative journalism.
9. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Podcast Episode
   Gay and Lesbian Characters in Young Adult Literature
   Tune in to hear about the many ways in which contemporary authors are including gay, lesbian, and transgender characters in their novels for teens, and listen for recommendations of new titles on these topics.
   
10. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Tip & How-To
    How to Encourage Higher Order Thinking
    Practicing Higher Order Thinking (HOT) skills outside of school will give kids the tools that they need to understand, infer, connect, categorize, synthesize, evaluate, and apply the information they know to find solutions to new and existing problems.

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