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“...just finished reading Like Finding My Twin, with goosebumps on my arms and a few tears.” “A small book with a very large message.” “This is a quick read that I couldn't put down.” “A well-told, moving story, attractively designed and abundantly illustrated with photographs, artifacts, and historical documents.” “…a great model for relevancy projects, where students learn through a real life classroom experience. It's also an amazing story that ...

Wednesday, August 19, 2015 8-10 a.m. A one-hour radio interview on WGTB Morning Show with Greg Berg. He interviews FSC about all three of her books. The show will be archived at this link: http://www.wgtd.org/Morning_Show.asp

http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-sun/ct-nvs-finding-my-twin-st-0712-20150712-story.html

/http://www.howtolearn.com/2015/07/middle-school-kids-reunite-friends-separated-by-the-holocaust/

Goodreads Book Giveaway Like Finding My Twin by Fern Schumer Chapman Giveaway ends July 26, 2015. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter Giveaway

  After decades of silence about her family history, Edith, at 90, tells her story at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center of coming to America alone as a 12-year-old girl. This year, she decided to become a docent at the Skokie, IL museum.

NEW narrative non-fiction book that combines historical documents, pictures, and storytelling to capture the 1938 shipboard friendship of Gerda and my mother, Edith, as the two unaccompanied minors traveled to America; the students' research to locate Gerda decades later; and the reunion of the two friends 73 years after they last saw each other. Books will be available in June. Reserve a copy by emailing me at fernschumer@aim.com.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWGw9YVqOI0

The Arrow Book Club targets 4th-6th graders. Honored to be featured!

Students created posters based upon each chapter of the book [upper right photo].