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Sydney seaplane crash: Sharp turn 'inexplicable', operator says

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Drop in consumer demand hits UK car manufacturing

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'Dangerously' drunk tourists may not win insurance claims

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Glee actor Mark Salling, 35, found dead

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Logan Paul 'more popular' than Zoella with children

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News Daily: Trump's address and May 'not a quitter'

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The Papers: BBC pay 'backlash' and speeding 'crackdown'

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The make-up artist making designs with dead insects

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Skywatchers await 'super blue blood Moon'

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'Baby brain': Myth or reality?

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RSPB Minsmere winter starling murmuration

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Why did this council leader just quit?

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You're on the verge of losing everything - but you don’t understand why

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Post-Brexit data sharing crucial, say ex-intelligence heads

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'Forget walking 10,000 steps a day'

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Why Ben Whishaw has murder in mind

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Used clothes: Why is worldwide demand declining?

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Why did Kenya's Raila Odinga 'inaugurate' himself as president?

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Monkeys? Humans? The ethics of testing diesel fumes

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Why is there talk about threats to Theresa May's job?

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"Mute" is a "Blade Runner"-inspired take on the future, complete with a neo-noir soul and Jones's off-kilter humor and dreamy romanticism.

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The president speaks of "one American family", but Democrats say he has left the nation "fractured".

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The Islamist group's power and reach have surged since foreign combat troops left, the BBC finds.

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The Vatican says it has been given new information about allegations of a bishop's alleged cover-up.

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The move reverses attempts by former President Barack Obama to close the controversial site.

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Additionally the employee who sent the warning, who had a record of poor performance, is fired.

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The actor, who had admitted possessing child sex abuse images, is believed to have killed himself.

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Pierre Agnes' boat was discovered washed ashore near Biarritz on France's Atlantic coast.

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A killer whale that can mimic words such as "hello" is thought to be the first of its kind to copy human speech.

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The contrasting reactions to the president's speech tell the tale of a deeply divided Congress.

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Joseph Kennedy III attacked the president and said Democrats were speaking for all Americans.

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The Afghan Taliban, which US-led forces spent billions of dollars trying to defeat, are now openly active in 70% of the country, a BBC study has found.

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United Airlines refuses to let a woman in New Jersey board a plane with a peacock, citing its size.

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North Korean defector Ji Seong-ho waved his crutches to resounding applause when Trump called him up.

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A campaign in several African countries wants to stop child brides and keep girls in education.

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Film critic Shubhra Gupta shines a spotlight on the history of sexism in Indian films.

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The first part of the BBC's series on online conspiracy theories: why some people think chemicals are dropping from the sky.

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Review of Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship

Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship
by Irene Latham and Charles Waters; illus. by Sean Qualls and Selina Alko
Primary, Intermediate    Carolrhoda    40 pp.
1/18    978-1-5124-0442-5    $17.99
e-book ed.  978-1-5124-7214-1    $9.99

This clever book of poetry is about finding an unexpected friend. Classmates Irene and Charles (also the names of this book’s coauthors) are paired together for a poetry writing project. Irene is white and, according to Charles, “hardly says anything.” Charles, whose “mouth is like a race car / that never stops to refuel,” is black. Each spread contains poems from both of their perspectives, with Irene’s poem on one side of the page and Charles’s on the other. The children write about topics such as shoes, hair, school, and church. As they get to know each other better, the poems traverse even trickier areas, such as slavery and contemporary police violence against African Americans. Irene and Charles also bond over the difficulties of making friends and a love of reading; the poem “Author Visit” is about their excitement upon meeting one of their favorite writers, Nikki Grimes. The illustrations are in acrylic paint, colored pencil, and collage, and range from ordinary classroom scenes to spare, dramatic images to double-page spreads that visually connect Irene’s and Charles’ experiences into one, showing their similarities. Qualls and Alko’s layering of print newspaper clippings over paint begs readers to take a closer look. Appended authors’ and illustrators’ notes provide more information about the book’s background and development. This volume would make an excellent read-aloud or a launch pad for collaborative classroom writing.

From the January/February 2018 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.

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Any Brexit deal will hit UK economy - government paper

A leaked paper suggests slower growth - but government sources say its preferred deal was not analysed.

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'Ex-soldier' raiding Home Counties houses at gunpoint

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BBC women face 'veiled threats' over equal pay queries

MPs publish evidence from women as a pay cap of £320,000 for news presenters is said to be proposed.

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CIA chief says China 'as big a threat to US' as Russia

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Eddie Adams' iconic Vietnam War photo: what happened next

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Stranded skiers' chairlift chopper rescue

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Tens of millions of prescription drugs on the black market

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Beckham's fans are cheering, but will they show up on match days?

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Irish abortion referendum: Vote to be held in May

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Duke and Duchess of Cambridge begin tour of Sweden

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Personal Independence payments: All 1.6 million claims to be reviewed

Around 1.6 million cases will be looked at, with 220,000 claimants expected to receive more money.

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India estimates 21 million of its girls are 'unwanted'

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Heads warn of 'chronic' funding shortages

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News Daily: Brexit leak and 'threats' over BBC pay queries

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Paris residents battle floods as Seine level peaks

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Is Tube travel damaging your hearing?

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The diabetic boxer fighting for his chance to compete

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Former England captain David Beckham launches his long-planned Major League Soccer team in Miami.

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China is buying UK boar semen to help strengthen pig stock

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Maye Musk: "I am just getting started" as a model, aged 69

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Bernstein: We'll remember this as 'Monday Night Slaughter'

CNN political analyst Carl Bernstein says FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's departure and a passing vote by the House Intelligence Committee to release a memo alleging FBI misconduct will be remembered as a "Monday Night Slaughter."

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