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Deborah Blumenthal

Deborah Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and nutritionist who writes children's books and adult novels. She has been a regular contributor to The New York Times (including four years as The New York Times Magazine beauty columnist) and a home design columnist for Long Island Newsday. Her health, fitness, beauty, travel, and feature stories have appeared widely in many other newspapers and national magazines, including The Washington PostThe Los Angeles TimesCosmopolitanWoman's DayFamily CircleSelf, and Vogue. Blumenthal’s books include Fat ChanceWhat Men Want, and Fat Camp, among many others. She lives in Houston, Texas.

Books

PRH Education Translanguaging Collections

Translanguaging is a communicative practice of bilinguals and multilinguals, that is, it is a practice whereby bilinguals and multilinguals use their entire linguistic repertoire to communicate and make meaning (García, 2009; García, Ibarra Johnson, & Seltzer, 2017)   It is through that lens that we have partnered with teacher educators and bilingual education experts, Drs.

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PRH Education Classroom Libraries

“Books are a students’ passport to entering and actively participating in a global society with the empathy, compassion, and knowledge it takes to become the problem solvers the world needs.” –Laura Robb   Research shows that reading and literacy directly impacts students’ academic success and personal growth. To help promote the importance of daily independent

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