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‘I Survived’ author Lauren Tarshis on using disasters to get kids reading
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"I Survived" author Lauren Tarshis will speak at the Fayetteville Public Library Thursday at 6 p.m. as part of its True Lit Festival. She told KUAF she started the series, in which young characters live through disasters like Pompeii and Hurricane Katrina, after seeing how storytelling pulled struggling readers into history and science.
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