@BridgeofBooks

Founder & Executive Director. Putting books in the hands & homes of underserved kids across NJ for nearly 20 years. Reading is a right and not a privilege.

 Rumson, NJ
bridgeofbooksfoundation.org
Joined August 2009
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Thank you @BridgeofBooks 🎉📚 so happy to take home 2 new books today! @Mrs_Ricca @rbpsEAGLES #RBBisBIA
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#bookarkbuddies loaded up some good titles today! ⁦@BridgeofBooks⁩ ⁦@DreamBigRB⁩ ⁦@rbpsEAGLES⁩ ⁦@RedBankSup⁩ #happyreading 📚📖
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Books spark such joy 🤩 thank you @BridgeofBooks for getting books in the hands of our readers! @NurseReardon you made this boy’s day! @rbpsEAGLES
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#FreeBookSunday Just retweet, reply, and follow and I’ll select five winners to receive signed box sets of AMARI as well as an additional book of your choice!
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The details here are important—the height of the barrier to accessing this body of literature means it is basically unavailable to young people. “Hi Mom, do you have a minute to sign 116 permission slips?”
PEN America@PENamerica6 Oct 2022
One teacher's complaint means 116 books are now "Restricted" in all @ecpsfl libraries. Authors affected include: @nhannahjones @DrIbram @IamGMJohnson @ashleyhopeperez @KyleLukoff @jodipicoult @SJMaas @lxgino @ShaunieDarko @JoKnowles & @MargaretAtwood wkrg.com/northwest-florida/e…
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Happy #NationalBookMonth! Some favorite ways to celebrate: 1⃣ Read a new book (or 2, or 3…) 2⃣ Reread a favorite book 3⃣ #Uniteagainstbookbans 4⃣ Support an independent book store 5⃣ #EndBookDeserts @ALALibrary #Literacy #Edutwitter
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Read banned books. Buy banned books. Share banned books. Give banned books to your friends. Talk about banned books with your neighbors. Bring banned books to the park and the grocery store. Take banned books to lunch. Let the world know you believe in the right to read.
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Sent from Judy Carta from our collective work on 'bridging the word gap'
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School starts this week, so now is the time to remind our kids of the big ‘E’s as they head to the classroom.🏫Empathy. 💙 Encourage. 👏 Engage. 🤝 Equity. ⚖️ Empathize with others, Encourage others, Engage with others. Equity is not theirs to solve, but theirs to understand.
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Every few weeks this poster of mine starts appearing on various reading-, book-, and teacher-themed accounts (usually with my name chopped off). Just a reminder: you can download it and the older black-and-white version at the Art page of my site for free: jarrettlerner.com
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This incredible thread debunks the “no literary merit” justification for Utah book removals. Thank you for this work!
Morgan 🌈🦄📚🦄🌈@_morgueann1 Aug 2022
No literary merit? I can't even. First, literary merit is typically a term that applies to fiction - not all of these titles are fiction. Literary merit (def): the quality shared by all works of fiction that are considered to have aesthetic value.
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A librarian was told to label offensive books. Instead she labeled the entire space. #notonourwatch #defenseofdemocracy #readout2022
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In parts of Washington D.C, there's one book for 800 children. We need to #endbookdeserts now more than ever! Susan Neuman not only shares this daunting statistic during her @litequity panel, but shares solutions! I'm so motivated to make a difference!! #reading #literacy
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A lot of the people I’ve spoken to say they don’t consider the bans they want to be racist or bigoted.But librarians we speak to say that the most challenged books around the country are basically all about Black or brown or L.G.B.T. characters.
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Well, so much for building classroom libraries (@colbysharp and @donalynbooks) to increase literacy equity (@drmollyness). Going to be plenty to talk about at the @litequity conference. bookriot.com/florida-teacher…
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Love the journey of this little book❤️🦄
Abby Daly@BridgeofBooks25 Jul 2022
#Rahway K & ESL summer enrichment students will get to pick 4 books each at a book fair this week! @wnderfriends even more #NJ kids will get to meet Cornelius! #readbannedbooks #booksforall #endbookdeserts @MrsAkauola
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EDUCATORS and LIBRARIANS! Want to greet your new students with new books?! I’ve got about 160 elementary and Middle Grade books to give away—half here, half on Instagram. To enter to win half here: follow me and RT this tweet. Bonus entry: tag a pal who may want to enter too!
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Re-upping this crazy story of a book banning in ohio of author Jason Tharp @wnderfriends. The school told him he couldn't read his book 'It's Ok to be a Unicorn' after a board member complained "We are telling kids that ‘being gay is ok’?" thehill.com/opinion/educatio…

Book bans sweeping the US show it’s not OK to be a unicorn

Censoriousness is snowballing, and school leaders are acting out of fear — or in some cases malice — to suppress literature.

thehill.com
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We had an extra special visitor who loves to read as much as we do @rbpsEAGLES and helped us load up our new #bookark. What a treat!@RedBankPreK @RedBankSup @DreamBigRB @BridgeofBooks 📚📖📕#Booksforall
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We are SO EXCITED to have new books in our hands from @BridgeofBooks! 👏🏻Thank you so much for opening our imagination to all types of literature! @HorizonsJS @HorizonsNatl
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