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Kansas Author Grant Overstake to Present at National Rural Library Conference
Kansas Author Grant Overstake to Present at National Rural Library Conference
Grant Overstake, ARSL Author Fest, 2023 National Conference, Association for Rural & Small Libraries, Watermark Books, rural libraries, small libraries, limited resources, staff, heartland novels, Best Seller List, Midwest bookstore, rural library collections, small-town America spirit, Maggie Vaults Over the Moon, high school senior Maggie Steele, family farm struggle, rural life representation, The Real Education of TJ Crowley, 1960s Wichita, civil rights struggles, Kansas Authors’ Club, Book of the Year, National Book of the Month by Bookclubs.com, Jenn Bailey, Megan Bannen, K. L. Barron, Traci Brimhall, Catherine Browder, Rebecca Coffindaffer, Charlotte Nicole Davis, M.K. Deppner, Helen Dunlap Newton, Sarah Henning, Canese Jarboe, Kij Johnson, Charles Forrest Jones, Jen Mann, LL McKinney, Anna-Marie McLemore, Britney S. Lewis, L. S. Moore, Brenda Maier, Janice Northerns, Alexandra Ott, Marcia Preston, Julie A. Sellers, Amanda Sellet, Grant Snider, Shannon A. Thompson and Nghiem Tran
Novelist Brings TJ Crowley to Life in Senior Games Shot Put Event
Novelist Brings TJ Crowley to Life in Senior Games Shot Put Event
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‘TJ Crowley’ Featured in Racial Profiling Class at WSU
‘TJ Crowley’ Featured in Racial Profiling Class at WSU
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‘TJ Crowley' Goes to College: Novel Picked for History Course at Wichita State University
‘TJ Crowley' Goes to College: Novel Picked for History Course at Wichita State University
TJ, UncategorizedAward Winning YA Novels, Best Sports Novels, Candid Conversations, Civil Rights, Civil Rights movement, Clare Vanderpool, Coming of Age, Criminal Justice, Dr- Jay M- Price, Dr- Martin Luther King, Grain Valley Publishing Company, Grant Overstake, History of Wichita, Integration, J- Donald Coffin Memorial Book Award, Kansas, Kansas Authors Club, Kim Rutter, Kim Uden Rutter, Ku Klux Klan, Library Journal, Library Journal Book Reviewer, Linda Knupp, Manhattan Public Library, Mark Wolfson, Muhammad Ali, Novels about the 1960s, Segregation, Southeast Kansas Libraries System, Teens > Literature & Fiction > Social & Family Issues > Prej..., The Real Education of TJ Crowley, Vietnam War, white privilege, Wichita, Wichita Novels, Wichita Public Library, Wichita State University, WSU Department of History, Young Adult Fiction Comment
‘TJ Crowley’ Wins Book of the Year!
‘TJ Crowley’ Wins Book of the Year!
TJ, UncategorizedAward Winning YA Novels, Best Sports Novels, Civil Rights, Civil Rights movement, Clare Vanderpool, Coming of Age, Criminal Justice, Dr- Martin Luther King, Grain Valley Publishing Company, Integration, J- Donald Coffin Memorial Book Award, Kansas, Kansas Authors Club, Kim Rutter, Kim Uden Rutter, Library Journal, Library Journal Book Reviewer, Linda Knupp, Manhattan Public Library, Mark Wolfson, Muhammad Ali, Nancy Julien Kopp, North Central Kansas Libraries Syastem, Northern Illinois University, Novels about the 1960s, Paul Bishop, Segregation, Southeast Kansas Libraries System, Southeast Kansas Library System, Teens > Literature & Fiction > Social & Family Issues > Prej..., The Real Education of TJ Crowley, University of Illinois, Vietnam War, white privilege, Wichita, Writing Awards Comment
Scholars Create New Educator Guide for Teaching ‘TJ Crowley'
Scholars Create New Educator Guide for Teaching ‘TJ Crowley'
TJ, UncategorizedBooks on Racism, Civil Rights, Civil Rights movement, College Now CUNY, Criminal Justice, Grant Overstake, Huffington Post, In Their Own Words: Criminals on Crime, Integration, Liz Madans, Michael Birzer, Police Field Operations: Theory Meets Practice, race relations, Racial Profiling: They Stopped me because I’m ____!, Rebekah Shoaf, Teens > Literature & Fiction > Social & Family Issues > Prej..., The Real Education of TJ Crowley Educator Guide, Young Adult Fiction