{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Book Love Foundation Podcast","title":"2017 Winter Break #5 - Season 2, Episode 9","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2088,"description":"Welcome to Season 2 Episode 9 of The Book Love Foundation Podcast! And thank you for joining us in this celebration of teaching and the joy of learning. This episode is part of a series of special shows for winter break 2017! In each episode, we will help you figure what to do with those book store gift cards by sharing some titles you may want to add to your classroom library. Today Penny talks with Aeriale Johnson!Subscribe in iTunesDonate to the Book Love FoundationSeason 2 Ep 9 Show NotesAeriale Johnson  serves children and their communities as a kindergarten teacher at Washington Elementary School in San Jose, CA. Prior to that, she taught in rural Alaska for 11 years and Florida for eight years. Her research focuses on both exploring and eliminating word poverty and the impact of the vestiges of colonialism on public school education in rural and urban settings throughout the world. She is a National Board Certified Teacher, served on the ILA Rural Diversity Committee from 2012-14, has presented at ILA and NCTE, and is currently a Heinemann Fellow.Find Aeriale on Twitter and Facebook.Here are her book recommendations…Where the Past Begins, by Amy TanMy Name is Not Easy, by Debby Dahl Edwardson(Also mentioned: Blessings Bead and Whale Snow.)The Rock and the River, by Kekla Magoon(Also mentioned: How It Went Down and X, a novel, written with Ilyasah Shabazz.)Other texts mentioned:Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan StevensonEvicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew DesmondThere Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America, by Alex KotlowitzThe Hate U Give, by Angie ThomasAll American Boys, by Jason Reynolds and Brendan KielyRefugee, by Alan GratzThank you for listening to this episode of the Book Love Foundation podcast. The Book Love Foundation is a non-profit 501 3(c) dedicated to putting books in the hands of teachers dedicated to nurturing the individual reading lives of their middle...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/tIs0J9SYP9dhn1JlleKvXwE8KQZ8FeZJbyNYRnvZ8J0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mMGQ0/ZTVlMDAxZDdmZjNl/NTQ4ODNlYTYxM2Mx/ZDY1Yi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}