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Pippa Park Comes to Life to Meet Tweens Where They Are on YouTube!

Middle graders aren’t reading for pleasure like they used to, and teachers, librarians, and families want a solution to get them excited about reading and sharing stories with their peers again. One part of such a solution is to meet tweens where they are—on YouTube—and this is precisely what a new video diary series from Fabled Films Press aims to do. Based on the bestselling AAPI middle school book Pippa Park Raises Her Game, by Erin Yun, this video series reflects and reinforces the themes in the book: friendship, girls’ sports, peer pressure, family, and Korean American identity.

When used together, the Pippa Park book program, video diary series, and tween activity kit are perfect for book clubs, summer reading, and year-round inclusive reading lists. 

1. 1. Build Excitement for the Books: Encourage kids to watch the trailer for the video series!
   2. Use the Video Educator Guide: As the kids read, watch the videos in tandem with the guide to create connections between the book and jumpstart important conversations with readers.
   3. Tween Book Club Activity Kit: Engage readers with fun extension activities, including discussion questions, word games, a fortune teller craft, a playlist activity, and more!
   4. Pippa Park Escape Room Kit: Transform your space into an immersive escape room experience and challenge your students to work together. (Compatible with Breakout EDU Kits. Don’t have a kit? We can loan you one!)
   5. AAPI Discussion Guide: Accessible and age-appropriate, this guide helps readers explore Pippa Park by seeing the character through author Erin Yun’s personal lens as a Korean American. 
   6. Common Core Language Arts Guide: This guide showcases lessons and activities that are aligned to curriculum standards. 
   7. Recorded Virtual Writing Program: Author Erin Yun can visit your readers with her prerecorded writing workshop.

Enter to win these turnkey resources, bookmarks, stickers and a reading group set with 5 copies of Pippa Park Raises Her Game and 1 copy of Pippa Park: My Journal About Life here or contact us at events@fabledfilms.com.