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Wednesday, July 22, 2015

My Post on Reaching Readers at Summer Camp . . .

Can be found today on the blog Kidliterati

How do you find young readers? I found some amazing kids at ChessNYC.

Posted by K. L. Hallam at 9:08 AM

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