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OCTOBER MEETING--Clap When you Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

  Hello PD group! Our next Literature for Adolescents meeting is Monday, October 26th from 3:45-5:45 (we will meet the last Monday of each month working around the holidays). From this date forward you can earn 18 hours of PD credit. Heidi Breidenstein will be facilitating our October read which is  Clap When You Land  by Elizabeth Acevedo. Make sure to pick out your favorite poem from the text. That will be part of the discussion.  Elizabeth Acevedo's new Clap When You Land is a novel, in verse, about two sisters losing their father, their hero, and finding each other along the way. Camino Rios lives with her aunt in the Dominican Republic, and waits all year for her dad to visit her for the summer. Below are the books we will read into 2021: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes – Suzanne Collins --- November The Death of Vivich Oji by  Akwaeke Emezi-December What is Not Yours Is Not Yours  by Helen Oyeyemi  and "Here for It"  by R. Eric Thomas - January (choose one) We wi