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Kentucky Launches new Literacy Resources for Schools, Libraries, Families
Kentucky First Lady Britainy Beshear announced that TeachingBooks is now available and free to use at all Kentucky schools and libraries, as well as online from a laptop or cellphone. This website provides learning resources related to roughly 100,000 books for children and young adults.
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