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How do you teach students about primary sources? Do you show photos? Talk about journals or government reports? Do you discuss how primary sources are different from secondary sources? Mention that newspapers, books, and magazines are secondary, but the writers of these often use primary sources? Today’s featured eSource file focuses on analyzing primary and […]Read more "Analyzing primary sources: Who gets a voice and why does it matter?"

Here are the brand-spankin-new Lerner Digital Interactive Books for Spring 2014! Amazing Athletes — Inspire sports fans with the success stories of Amazing Athletes. These attractive high-interest biographies include a description of a famous athlete’s career from the beginning through his or her current achievements. Just right for reluctant readers. Titles included in this series: Aaron […]Read more "New Lerner Interactive Books™!"

Congratulations to Paula Gillespie (@pgillesp1)! You are the winner of our new Bareknuckle series from Darby Creek! Please send us a DM on Twitter or an email to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com with the subject line “Free Book Friday” and tell us your mailing addresses so we can get your books in the mail. After seeing all of the great nonfiction at ALA Midwinter last […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

My office next-door neighbor and our resident “sports guy” is back with another great post just in time for the Super Bowl. Here’s Jon Fishman!    I love writing and editing sports books, and I follow sports as a pastime. If there isn’t a team from Minnesota involved in a game, I usually root for the […]Read more "Maybe Next Year, Vikings"

Today marks the fifth “snow day” of the winter here in Minnesota. We call it a snow day, but the schools are actually closed because of the dangerously low temperatures. In order to combat the cold, I’ve wrangled up some hot and tasty web gems for your brain consumption. Enjoy! School ditches rules and loses […]Read more "Yep, it’s still cold."

Photo Editor Giliane Mansfeldt returns to report on a couple of tactics that can help us make it through a particularly rough Minnesota winter:Here in Minnesota, we woke up to air temperatures hovering right around -14 and a wind-chill close to -40 in some areas of the state. Yikes! You may ask, what is there […]Read more "Another VERY cold day in Minnesota"

Congratulations to Brandy Monday (@IndyChick1977)! You are the winner of our new Mike & Riel Mysteries series from Darby Creek! Please send us a DM on Twitter or an email to publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com with the subject line “Free Book Friday” and tell us your mailing addresses so we can get your books in the mail. What do you get when you combine Fight […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

You know who has an awesome job? Renan Ozturk. He’s an expeditionary artist. That means he travels with people on expeditions to fascinating locales, and then he documents the trip through art. I learned about him by reading Millbrook’s new title Secrets of the Sky Caves and editing the FREE teaching tools that support this book. As […]Read more "Exploring careers from your classroom"

Here in Minneapolis we’re bracing ourselves for the second “polar vortex” of the winter. With temps in the negatives all week, there’s not much to do except scour the internet for interesting videos and articles to share with you. Enjoy! I’ll Never Ever Look At Books The Same Again After Seeing These Hidden Messages. Wow. […]Read more "The Polar Vortex v2.0: Webgems Avalanche Edition"