This map is an American snapshot; it provides an accessible visualization of geographic distribution, population density, and racial diversity of the American people in every neighborhood in the entire country.

"Stop focusing on the futile: making the haters like you. Focus on people who like you. Spend time cultivating relationships with those who like you and perhaps they'll come to love you (and you them.) Focus on helping and serving others and being kind. Choose to ignore those who may be speaking negative about you - that can quickly become paranoia. Usually people aren't even talking about you at all - I hate to tell you what I tell myself - you're not that important.  Keep perspective and keep to your task."

Classic book listings and reasons why they were challenged

Places from YA novel: 13 Little Blue Envelopes

Newspaper + Marker = Poetry. Grab a marker and a newspaper, black out the words you don't need, and share your poem.

This site was created as a way for people to share their self-created book trailers. All trailers shared with BTFA are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) What does this mean, exactly? It means you are free to show, download, and share these trailers, as long as they are not modified, and attribution to the creator is given. Most trailers were created by teachers, students or librarians, but a few of the trailers were created by publishers, or authors. The most important thing to note is that all of them are here for you to use, so feel free!