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            3 Articles Categorized Under Community & School Reads Adults: Memoir & Biography

            Community & School Reads Adults: Memoir & Biography First-Year Reading: Memoir & Biography
            January 16 2020

            Inside the Book: Not Quite Not White by Sharmila Sen

            Author Sharmila Sen discusses the process of assimilation and the significance of race in America. About Not Quite Not White: Winner of the ALA Asian/Pacific American Award for Nonfiction At the age of 12, Sharmila Sen emigrated from India to the U.S. The year was 1982, and everywhere she turned, she was asked to self-report her

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            Inside the Book: Not Quite Not White by Sharmila Sen

            Community & School Reads Adults: Memoir & Biography First-Year Reading: Memoir & Biography
            January 16 2020
            Horace Mann
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            June 8 2017

            Celebrating “Book Day”: Horace Mann Reads Coates’ BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME

            Every spring for the past 23 years, the Horace Mann School (HM) in the Bronx, NY, has celebrated Book Day, a common reading event.  Book Day is a day when the entire school community—including students, faculty, parents, and alumni—dedicates one day to one book. Classes for more than 740 students and 150 faculty members are

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            Horace Mann

            Celebrating “Book Day”: Horace Mann Reads Coates’ BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME

            Community & School Reads Adults Community & School Reads Adults: Current Events Community & School Reads Adults: Memoir & Biography
            June 8 2017
            Community & School Reads Adults: Memoir & Biography First-Year Reading: Memoir & Biography
            December 9 2015

            A Father Speaks Out About His Transgender Daughter & Their Family Journey

            By Wayne Maines, father of Nicole Maines.  The Maines family is the focus of Amy Ellis Nutt’s Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family (Random House, October 2015) Recently I had the opportunity to speak at Bowdoin College, in Brunswick, Maine. Before the lecture I spent an hour walking around their beautiful campus, thinking

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            A Father Speaks Out About His Transgender Daughter & Their Family Journey

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            December 9 2015
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