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Lake Bluff History museum offers look at homegrown, products

http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lake-forest/news/ct-lfr-lake-bluff-history-museum-tl-0517-story.html

Kankakee’s Daily Journal covers Peotone High School event

April 27, 2018 - Daily Journal, Kankakee, IL http://www.daily-journal.com/news/local/is-there-a-holocaust-renaissance-in-our-future/article_5339f046-4986-11e8-a2fb-175ee34814a3.html

Viking/Penguin buys FSC’s next project!

From Publisher's Marketplace: March 6, 2018 Non-fiction: Advice/Relationships Fern Schumer Chapman's RETURNING BY THE ROAD WE CAME: On Sibling Relationships, Lost and Found Again, an exploration of estrangement and reconciliation between sisters and brothers, and how these relationships can be transformed, to Carole Desanti at Viking, by Marian Young (world).   If you are estranged from a sibling and you would like to take a survey and participate in my ...

News from Jane Addams Junior High School

 Jane Addams JHS eighth-graders were riveted during an assembly this morning as they listened to award-winning author Fern Schumer Chapman share the story of her mother, 92-year-old Holocaust refugee Edith Westerfeld – and then heard from Westerfeld herself. The presentation tied in with the students’ studies of the Holocaust in Language Arts and World War II in social studies. Westerfeld was 12 when her parents sent her to the United ...

Junior Library Guild selects THREE STARS IN THE NIGHT SKY for fall list 2018

At the age of 12, Gerda Katz fled Nazi Germany and came to America all by herself. Decades before the label gained recognition, she became what’s now known as an “unaccompanied minor.” Gerda’s story of family separation reflects the dislocating trauma, culture shock, and excruciating loneliness many unaccompanied minor immigrants experience. As Gerda becomes an American, she never stops longing to be reunited with her family. Three Stars in the ...