An Educator Guide for the Vanderbeekers series is available! Check it out here!

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Musical Selections from The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street

Csardas - Gypsy Dance by Vittorio Monti
David Garrett
La Folia by Corelli
Bin Huang, Hyun-Sun Kim
Les Furies by Eugene Ysaye
Sharon Park
The Swan by Camile Saint-Saëns
Joshua Bell

Musical Selections from The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden

Roses from the South
Johann Strauss II

Musical Selections from The Vanderbeekers to the Rescue

Violin Concerto in B Minor, third movement
Camille Saint-Saens

Free Downloadable Poster! (Can be printed up to 11” x 17”!)

Poster Designed by Emily Rabin, emilyrabin.com

Poster Designed by Emily Rabin, emilyrabin.com

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Discussion and Activity Guides

HMH Books for Young Readers has a free Educator’s Guide for The Vanderbeekers series. Check it out here!

The folks at the Middle Grade @ Heart Book Club created this wonderful interview/discussion/activity guide for The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street. Check it out here.

Which Vanderbeeker sibling are you? Take this quiz and find out!

Interviews and Blog Posts

Publisher’s Weekly Q&A (link)
The Horn Book's Publisher's Previews (link)
The TeachingBooks.net Blog, Guest Post (link)
Literary Rambles (guest post by Karina and her agent Ginger Clark) (link)
Sarah Scoop Interview and Book Review (link)
Beth McMullen's Blog (link)
Teachers Who Read Blog (link)
Blackplume's "Celebrating Debutantes" Blog (link)

Podcast Appearances

The Read-Aloud Revival (link)
The Reading Culture Podcast (link)
Remember Reading Podcast (link)
Withywindle Podcast (first interview and second interview)
The Books Between Podcast (link)
Book Club for Kids Podcast (link)
Book Riot's Recommended Podcast (link)
A Bookish Home Podcast (link)

If you would like to know how to pronounce Karina's name, take a listen to the audio clip below.

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Teaching Books

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers did an Instagram Stories session with Karina right before the book released. They talk about the book, Harlem, and Alexander Hamilton!