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The Official List of Harper’s Winter 2021 YA Cover Reveals. Who’s in need of some good news?

The Official List of Harper’s Winter 2021 YA Cover Reveals

🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️ Well, we’re here to deliver! We have your first full look at all of the gorgeous books HarperCollins is dropping in the first few months of 2021!! Top 100 Teacher Blogs & Websites For Teachers in 2020. 1.

Top 100 Teacher Blogs & Websites For Teachers in 2020

WeAreTeachers | Ideas, Inspiration, and Giveaways for Teachers Austin, Texas, United States About Blog This blog hleps to promote innovation in education through collaboration and connection to the most effective classroom resources. Frequency 1 post / day Blog weareteachers.com Facebook fans 1.7M ⋅ Twitter followers 561.3K ⋅ Instagram Followers 395.7K ⋅ Social Engagement 179ⓘ ⋅ Domain Authority 67ⓘ ⋅ Alexa Rank 25.4Kⓘ View Latest Posts ⋅ Get Email Contact 2. FreeTech4Teachers | Educational Technology Blog Maine, United States About Blog FreeTech4Teachers.com is a blog that Richard started in 2007 as part of PD course that Richard took with the Great Maine Schools partnership. 25 Best Education Sites & Apps For 2020. It's the time of year again for my favorite annual sites and apps.

25 Best Education Sites & Apps For 2020

This year's list includes a wide variety of educational tools, from student response systems to curation tools to multimedia resources. Many are new and some are free. As always, tools listed in previous end-of-year posts are not eligible for this year's list. Sneak peeks at great reads, behind-the-scenes insights from authors, lively & provocative reader's guides & fabulous free books. WordArt.com - Word Cloud Art Creator. Edpuzzle. A community of teen book lovers and aspiring writers sharing YA book recommendations, videos, quizzes, writing advice, and more, all on one online platform where you can connect with authors, discover new books, write your own stories, and wi.

Kids Book Reviews and Ratings at DOGO Books. The Best Bookstores in All 50 States + DC. Like every reader, we Book Rioters love a good bookstore.

The Best Bookstores in All 50 States + DC

(I even planned my cross-country move last fall around the bookstores I wanted to visit.) And we LOVE a good bookstore list. Best bookstores in small towns! Best bookstores with a cafe! Best bookstore cats and/or dogs! How knowledgeable are the booksellers? I asked Rioters from across the country to tell me their favorite bookstores in every state (plus Washington, DC!) Audiobooksync. Google URL Shortener. Posted by Michael Hermanto, Software Engineer, Firebase We launched the Google URL Shortener back in 2009 as a way to help people more easily share links and measure traffic online.

Google URL Shortener

Since then, many popular URL shortening services have emerged and the ways people find content on the Internet have also changed dramatically, from primarily desktop webpages to apps, mobile devices, home assistants, and more. To refocus our efforts, we're turning down support for goo.gl over the coming weeks and replacing it with Firebase Dynamic Links (FDL). FDLs are smart URLs that allow you to send existing and potential users to any location within an iOS, Android or web app. We're excited to grow and improve the product going forward. For consumers Starting April 13, 2018, anonymous users and users who have never created short links before today will not be able to create new short links via the goo.gl console. After March 30, 2019, all links will continue to redirect to the intended destination. Google URL Shortener. Announcing the 2017 Hub Reading Challenge! It’s time to kickoff the 2017 Hub reading challenge!

Announcing the 2017 Hub Reading Challenge!

This challenge is intended to encourage librarians, library workers, and YA lit enthusiasts to dive into the award winner and honor books and YALSA selected lists with the hope of providing excellent readers’ advisory and even discovering a new favorite title or exploring a genre outside of your comfort zone. Eligible books are the YA titles that were named winners or honor titles the following award and selected lists: How to Participate The goal is to read any 25 books of the titles from the above lists and awards—find the list of titles here and here in a sortable spreadsheet! Let us know you’re participating by commenting on this post below.If you’re going to be tracking what you read/listen to on your blog or on Goodreads, LibraryThing, YouTube or some other site, include a link to your blog/shelf/channel/profile in your comment. Challenge rewards Guidelines.

Unputdownable: 17 books I read in 24 hours or less (because they were just that good) – Modern Mrs. Darcy. Every once in a while, I pick up a book that’s so compelling I just can’t put it down until I reach the last page.

Unputdownable: 17 books I read in 24 hours or less (because they were just that good) – Modern Mrs. Darcy

Sometimes it’s because the book is flat-out amazing; sometimes it’s because the book is good enough and the plot is amazing. Un-put-down-able books, for me, have certain qualities: great characters, strong narrative drive, a premise that hooks me. The writing is often strong (though “serviceable” will suffice, if you know what I mean), and it can’t be so dense or challenging that I can’t read it while I’m sleepy, or mentally exhausted. The second category for the 2017 Reading Challenge—for those of you who want to put the “oomph” back in your reading life—is “a book with a reputation for being un-put-down-able.”