This is a heartbreaking yet fascinating episode with masters library student and master musician Sarah Parker talk about her inspiring time in Africa working in the Village of Hope teaching kids to read. I hope it inspires you as much as talking to her did me.
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In this episode you’ll hear

• Jennifer Hubert Swan of Reading Rants on YA mysteries, specifically, The Girl Is Murder by Kathryn Miller Haines
• A Take5 Marketing Tip from Dianne de Las Casas: Bookmarks (WillyWalt.com)
• How The Village of Hope works
• child slaves and how they’re saved
• what happens when the child slaves escape and their owner comes to find them
• Jantsen’s Gift: A True Story of Grief, Rescue, and Graceby Pam Cope
• what a typical day is like working there
• the best pencil sharpener ever yet…
• how a pencil sharpener becomes a weapon
• how to teach a child to read when they don’t speak English
• how my middle grade novel,The Curse of Addy McMahonmade it to Africa!
• how kids are placed in which grades
• Sarah’s YouTube channel is called zebramuzak is right here

 

 
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