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Judith Bloom Fradin

Judy Fradin is the co-author, along with her late husband Dennis, of more than 50 non-fiction children's and young adult books on topics ranging from biographies to natural disasters to African American history to the Lewis and Clark expedition.  Their IDA B. WELLS:  MOTHER OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT won the Flora Steiglitz Straus award as well as the Golden Kite honor plaque.  STOLEN INTO SLAVERY was a Carter Woodson award winner, as was THE POWER OF ONE:  DAISY BATES AND THE LITTLE ROCK NINE.   WHO WAS SACAGAWEA? was the Fradins' first collaboration for the WHO WAS? series.  Between 2007 and 2015, Judy was a professor of Children's Literature and Minority Literature at National Louis University.

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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