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Roundtable Reading: One-Third Nerd by Gennifer Choldenko

Liam lives in the Bay Area with his mom and two younger sisters: Dakota, who is fascinated by science and has a big personality but struggles to make friends, and Izzy, a child with Down syndrome, who makes friends easily. Dad lives across town, but he’s over a lot.
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Roundtable Reading: Guts by Raina Telgemeier

Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Her mom has one, too, so it’s probably just a bug. When Raina returns to school, she’s facing the usual highs and lows with friends, not-friends, and classmates.
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Gallery + Studio: Bite-Size Universe of Color, Texture, and Form

Ron Nagle’s unique small sculptures begin as drawings, exploring color, texture, and form as they assume their three-dimensional shape.
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Gallery + Studio: Great Cosmic Eyes

Experience the magical realism of Sylvia Fein’s glowing egg tempera paintings, then work with artist Mary Curtis Ratcliff to learn a paint-resist technique—using waxed colors and tempera—for revealing mysterious eyes in unexpected places!
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Roundtable Reading: The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden

Chester Cricket never intended to leave his Connecticut meadow. He’d be there still if he hadn’t followed the entrancing aroma of liverwurst right into someone’s picnic basket.
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Gallery + Studio: A Landscape in Your Pocket

After an interactive tour of Hinges: Sakaki Hyakusen and the Birth of Nanga Painting, experiment with a range of drawing materials on Japanese paper to create value and tone, and build an imaginary landscape on your own miniature folding screen.
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Workshop: Butterfly Effect

A special Art Lab activity featuring youth activists with The Butterfly Effect: Migration is Beautiful art project.
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The Wizard of Oz
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Ernest & Celestine
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Free Screening: Films by Sally Cruikshank

Intrigued by the idea of seeing her drawings move, Sally Cruikshank learned to animate while in college. Her love of surreal 1930s cartoons, as well as her desire to make her own amusement park, is evident in her wildly colorful and wonderfully detailed films.
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