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St. Joseph’s Library Relocation
Through the initiative of Member Fatima Shaik, the Children’s/Young Adult Book Authors Committee helped move an elementary school library from St. Joseph’s School in Greenwich Village, New York City, to the Martin Luther King, Jr. School in New Orleans. When Fatima realized the archdiocese was closing her child's school, she offered to pack up and transport to New Orleans the entire St. Joseph’s library consisting of 134 boxes of books and 37 bookcases. >> More
March, 2008 Visit to New Orleans
As part of an ongoing relationship between the PEN Children’s Book Committee and the Martin Luther King School of New Orleans, author and photographer Susan Kuklin and author Elizabeth Levy went down for a visit. >> More
June, 2008 Visit to New Orleans
As members of the PEN Children’s/YA Book Committee, authors Mary Ann Hoberman and Linda Winston were the second PEN pair to visit the Martin Luther King, Jr. Charter School in New Orleans, following the trail blazed by Susan Kuklin and Elizabeth Levy. Read their earlier blog to learn the background of the school and its exceptional recovery. >> More
November, 2009 Visit to New Orleans
In November, 2009, four authors—Robie Harris, Elizabeth Levy, Fatima Shaik and Susan Kuklin—went to The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Charter School of Science and Technology in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans, to do a series of writer’s workshop with some of the students. The plan was: make a book! >> More
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