Entries by Jim McCabe

Promote Summer Reading with Free Ebooks

What are the best strategies to encourage summer reading? A gold star for each book read beside my name on the library wall worked for me one summer a long time ago. But mailing out gold stars this summer could get expensive, and the thrill of seeing your name on the wall in the library […]

Can Electives Build Readers?

Background I love electives. They kept me in teaching. For many years in a community college, I taught books like Parallel Time, Walking with the Wind-A Memoir of the Movement, A Hope in the Unseen-An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League, Dead Man Walking, etc. as part of ENG 101 classes. […]

Sea and Earth: The Life of Rachel Carson

Download in epub format for Chromebooks, and Apple devices: Download for Kindle Fires or other Amazon devices: This is the story of the most important science writer of the 20th century. With “Silent Spring” Rachel Carson shocked Americans into reevaluating the man-made chemicals that have polluted our whole environment. Carson “jolted the entire country into […]

Mr. Black Labor: The Story of A. Philip Randolph by Daniel S. Davis

The epub format below is for your Apple and Android devices including Send-to-Kindle. As you may know, Amazon has changed to the epub format to use with the Send-to-Kindle program. A great feature of the Send-to-Kindle program is that the file will go directly to your Library folder, and not have to be searched for […]

Dear Fatherland, Rest Quietly by Margaret Bourke-White

Download an epub file for Apple, and Android devices: Download a mobi file for Amazon devices:   An excerpt from The New York Times review, December 4, 1946 by Orville Prescott. “Miss Bourke-White is one of the most distinguished of American photographers. Before the war she was a specialist in pictures of industry. During the […]