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	Glaser, Karina Yan. THE VANDERBEEKERS OF 141ST STREET New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017 IL 3-6, RL 5.3 ISBN: 978-0544876393 (3 booktalks)
Click on the book to read Amazon reviews	Booktalk #1 Imagine that you live with your family in a nice comfortable home in a neighborhood in Harlem that you love, surrounded by neighbors who are like family. It’s the only life you’ve ever known, and it’s the only life you would ever want. Now imagine it is five days before Christmas and your cranky landlord tells your family that you have to leave and that you only have eleven days to find a new place to live! This is exactly what happens to the Vanderbeekers, but the five siblings in this family are not about to give up their beloved home without a fight. Their plan is to befriend the mysterious landlord, Mr. Beiderman and somehow convince him to let them stay, and that is when the antics and mayhem ensue. Will their plan work? How do you make friends with someone who doesn’t even want you around? Will they have to leave their cherished home and start a new life somewhere else? (New Hampshire Great Stone Face nominee, 2018-2019) Booktalk #2 It’s just before Christmas, and seriously unpleasant landlord Mr. Beiderman has decided not to renew the lease of the Vanderbeekers’ brownstone apartment in Harlem, New York City. The five creative Vanderbeeker kids, however – 12-year-old twins Isa and Jessie, 9-year-old Oliver, 6-year-old Hyacinth, and 4-year-old Laney - are determined to make him change his mind. They circulate a neighborhood petition, and then decide to woo Mr. Beiderman with acts of kindness: Isa records a CD of her violin playing for him; Jessie, who loves science, makes an LED light up with lemons; Oliver writes a poem; Hyacinth gives him a kitten; and Laney makes a rainbow-colored picture of the brownstone. Nothing seems to work – until eventually they discover the tragic reason behind Mr. Beiderman’s isolation. A warm and wonderful story set in a multiracial neighborhood. (Vermont DCF Award nominee, 2018-2019) Booktalk #3 The Vanderbeeker family have lived in the same brownstone house in Harlem all their lives, until their landlord announces that he is evicting the Vanderbeeker family. It’s up to the five Vanderbeeker siblings to convince their landlord to let them stay! (Garden State Children's Book Awards nominee, 2020)
	SUBJECTS: African Americans -- Fiction. Christmas -- Fiction. Family life -- New York (State) -- Harlem -- Fiction. Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction. Humorous fiction. Landlord and tenant -- Fiction. Neighbors -- Fiction. New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.

Glaser, Karina Yan.
THE VANDERBEEKERS OF 141ST STREET
New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017
IL 3-6, RL 5.3
ISBN: 978-0544876393

(3 booktalks)

Click on the book to read Amazon reviews

Booktalk #1

Imagine that you live with your family in a nice comfortable home in a neighborhood in Harlem that you love, surrounded by neighbors who are like family. It’s the only life you’ve ever known, and it’s the only life you would ever want. Now imagine it is five days before Christmas and your cranky landlord tells your family that you have to leave and that you only have eleven days to find a new place to live! This is exactly what happens to the Vanderbeekers, but the five siblings in this family are not about to give up their beloved home without a fight. Their plan is to befriend the mysterious landlord, Mr. Beiderman and somehow convince him to let them stay, and that is when the antics and mayhem ensue. Will their plan work? How do you make friends with someone who doesn’t even want you around? Will they have to leave their cherished home and start a new life somewhere else? (New Hampshire Great Stone Face nominee, 2018-2019)

Booktalk #2

It’s just before Christmas, and seriously unpleasant landlord Mr. Beiderman has decided not to renew the lease of the Vanderbeekers’ brownstone apartment in Harlem, New York City. The five creative Vanderbeeker kids, however – 12-year-old twins Isa and Jessie, 9-year-old Oliver, 6-year-old Hyacinth, and 4-year-old Laney - are determined to make him change his mind. They circulate a neighborhood petition, and then decide to woo Mr. Beiderman with acts of kindness: Isa records a CD of her violin playing for him; Jessie, who loves science, makes an LED light up with lemons; Oliver writes a poem; Hyacinth gives him a kitten; and Laney makes a rainbow-colored picture of the brownstone. Nothing seems to work – until eventually they discover the tragic reason behind Mr. Beiderman’s isolation. A warm and wonderful story set in a multiracial neighborhood. (Vermont DCF Award nominee, 2018-2019)

Booktalk #3

The Vanderbeeker family have lived in the same brownstone house in Harlem all their lives, until their landlord announces that he is evicting the Vanderbeeker family. It’s up to the five Vanderbeeker siblings to convince their landlord to let them stay! (Garden State Children's Book Awards nominee, 2020)

SUBJECTS:      African Americans -- Fiction.
                        Christmas -- Fiction.
                        Family life -- New York (State) -- Harlem -- Fiction.
                        Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
                        Humorous fiction.
                        Landlord and tenant -- Fiction.
                        Neighbors -- Fiction.
                        New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.