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Nancy Blodgett Klein

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My latest book is Time to Take Off, a YA contemporary dystopian novel about an undocumented teenage boy trying to flee to Canada to escape ICE agents.

In 2024, I published Poetry for Troubled Times while the previous year I released Growing a Top-Notch Family Tree with Stories from its Branches, a non-fiction work.

Torn Between Worlds was my first novel while Life Lessons was my first non-fiction work. Both were published in 2021. In 2022, I published What's So Special About Spain, a travel book for children.

I worked as a journalist for 15 years, first as a police reporter. Later I was a bilingual teacher to mostly Mexican students. I have a bachelor's from Tulane, a master's from Boston University and a second master's from Roosevelt Univ
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Nancy Blodgett Klein I got the idea for my book from being a bilingual teacher to Mexican students, some of whom were undocumented. There were very few books that spoke to…moreI got the idea for my book from being a bilingual teacher to Mexican students, some of whom were undocumented. There were very few books that spoke to their issues or reflected their experience so I decided I needed to write a book that would be of interest to these young people. (less)
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Voting Absentee in a Blue State

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Even though I live in Spain, as an American citizen I still have the right to vote in US elections. I vote absentee in Illinois, where I lived before moving abroad.

Illinois is a blue state. That is, because of the nine million people who live in Chicagoland, compared to the much fewer number who live in rural areas in the state, Illinois almos

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Frank McCourt
“Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes

Erwin Schrödinger
“No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors… This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.”
― Erwin Schrödinger

James W. Loewen
“Ironically, Adolf Hitler displayed more knowledge of how we treated Native Americans than American high schoolers today who rely on their textbooks. Hitler admired our concentration camps for American Indians in the west and according to John Toland, his biographer, “often praised to his inner circle the efficiency of America’s extermination—by starvation and uneven combat” as the model for his extermination of Jews and Gypsies (Rom people).94”
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