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	<description>A blog about immigration, loss and legacy by author Fern Schumer Chapman</description>
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		<title>Listing honors (as in city and state lists)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is It Night or Day? is a South Carolina Junior Book Award nominee for 2012-2013. 
In addition, the book is included on the following lists:
* Maine State Student Book Award Master List
* Bank Street College’s “Best Children’s Books of the Year” Master List
* Tennessee YA Volunteer State Book Award Master List
* Chicago Public Library “Best [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fernschumerchapman.com/blog/2012/05/17/listing-honors-as-in-city-and-state-lists/</link>
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		<title>Book school visits now!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am scheduling school visits now for Fall 2012. Please book early for best rates. Visit this website for details:
http://www.authorsillustrators.com/schumer_chapman/schumer_chapman.htm
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		<link>http://fernschumerchapman.com/blog/2012/05/03/book-school-visits-now/</link>
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		<title>Edith/Gerda reunion as a Kindle Singles?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Thinking about releasing a 5,000 to 12,000 word download capturing story of the  Gerda and Edith reunion. I might make it available as a Kindle Singles. Interested? Please let me  know. Thanks!
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		<link>http://fernschumerchapman.com/blog/2012/04/30/edithgerda-reunion-as-a-kindle-singles/</link>
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		<title>Too Much Holocaust Education?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dan Fleshler
Huffington Post, March 7, 2012
On a bitterly cold day during a recent visit to Berlin, I stood in front of a modest, unfinished, yellow brick wall on the grounds of the Löcknitz-Grundschule, a primary school in the city&#8217;s &#8220;Bayerische Viertel&#8221; (Bavarian Quarter). Children were shouting and scampering around on a nearby playground. Next to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fernschumerchapman.com/blog/2012/04/28/4816/</link>
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		<title>For my Yakima friends&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[...who asked me to re-post the link to the news story about the
reunion of Edith and Gerda.

Here you go:

http://www.nctv17.com/napervillenews17/article.php?id=803


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		<link>http://fernschumerchapman.com/blog/2012/04/26/for-my-yakima-friends/</link>
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		<title>Edith and Gerda: Together Again</title>
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Gerda and Edith, summer 2012. The two friends hadn&#8217;t seen each other since 1938.


After  leaving their families in Nazi Germany, Holocaust refugees Edith  Westerfeld and Gerda Katz, who were only 12 years old at the time, met  on the ship that brought them to America. They became best friends, but  lost [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fernschumerchapman.com/blog/2012/03/30/edith-and-gerda-together-again/</link>
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		<title>A great day at OLHMS</title>
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FSC and Kathleen Spedale



Great to meet students and staff at Oak Lawn- Hometown Middle School.  Thanks to Library Media Specialist Kathleen Spedale and the District 123 Educational Foundation for organizing and sponsoring the presentations.
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		<link>http://fernschumerchapman.com/blog/2012/02/21/a-great-day-at-olhms/</link>
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		<title>35 seconds about new app for &#8216;Night or Day&#8217;</title>
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Axf6&#215;5Zt8&#38;amp;feature=youtu.be
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		<link>http://fernschumerchapman.com/blog/2012/02/17/30-seconds-about-new-app-for-night-or-day/</link>
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		<title>iPad app for &#8216;Night or Day&#8217; in iTunes store</title>
		<description><![CDATA[







Night or Day?
By Literactivity LP

View In iTunes
Through historic videos, compelling visuals of the story, comments from  the author and protagonist, delightful interactivities, and case studies  that explore bullying, this app reinvents the award-winning historical  novel, Is It Night or Day?. Through a totally immersive experience, this  app follows 12-year-old Edith&#8217;s journey [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fernschumerchapman.com/blog/2012/02/15/ipad-app-for-night-or-day-in-itunes-store/</link>
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		<title>A young Ohio reader&#8217;s reaction to &#8216;Night or Day&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1-24-11
Dear Fern Schumer Chapman,
When I started reading Is it Night or Day?, I really didn’t care about World War II. After about a quarter into the book, I felt as if I was living with Edith and the things that happened to her. I can relate to Edith in many ways.
Edith had many outstanding qualities [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fernschumerchapman.com/blog/2012/01/27/a-young-ohio-readers-reaction-to-night-or-day/</link>
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