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Monthly Archives: January 2019

Toy Savage – Teacher, Middle School History

Posted on January 28, 2019 by lsmith

Toy Savage, Middle School History

Favorite adult book recommendation — All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren

The classic 20th-century political novel, very dense in places but (more…)

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Amber Jenkins – Teacher, Upper School English

Posted on January 22, 2019 by lsmith

Amber Jenkins, Upper School English

Favorite adult book recommendation — The World of Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980–1990 by Charles Wright

I was introduced to the work of Charles Wright (who would later become the 50th Poet Laureate of the United States) in a poetry seminar during

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Mary Todd Glascock – Teacher, Upper School Spanish

Posted on January 15, 2019 by lsmith

Mary Todd Glascock, Upper School Spanish

Favorite adult book recommendation — To Kill a Mockingbird Girls by Harper Lee

I choose this book for its incredible depiction of social conflict in a small town regarding race relations.  As with most novels, this town reflects (more…)
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Kathy Yocke – Teacher, Middle School Science

Posted on January 8, 2019 by lsmith

Kathy Yocke, Middle School Science

Favorite adult book recommendation — Radium Girls by Kate Moore

It’s an amazing true story about young women of the World War I era who

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Vanessa Stewart – Teacher, Middle School English

Posted on January 2, 2019 by lsmith

Vanessa Stewart, Middle School English

Favorite adult book recommendation — Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Something about stories of families across generations mesmerizes me: they feel magical and yet powerfully close. This beautifully written story begins with two half sisters in eighteenth-century Ghana.
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