Mrs. HP Teacher Librarian!

  First Chapter Friday Today is First Chapter Friday and the book is : This is Your Brain on Stereotypes: How Science is Tackling Unconscious Bias  by Tanya Lloyd Kyi & Drew Shannon. There was so much interesting information just in the first chapter about bias, discrimination, prejudice, and stereotypes. It gives a brief history of eugenics - the idea that Caucasian people are the master race, and who led those ideas. I thought the information on baby bias was really interesting: that babies that are surrounded by various people of color showed no preference. I am looking forward to reading the rest of this book.

Vanished by Sheela Chari First Chapter Friday It is late at night, and an American woman and her partner are traveling through India by train.  She leans her head on his shoulder, wraps her arm around her instrument and closes her eyes.  As the train speeds towards its destination, a thick fog rolls across the country, obscuring the tracks, making it difficult for the conductors to the train to see.  When a cow steps on to the tracks, the conductor hits the brakes, causing the train to derail and crash.  The American woman and her partner die in the wreck.  Her instrument is thrown into the shrubbery, but when the authorities go to tag it, it disappears without a trace until years later, it ends up in Neela's hands.