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Posts by Amanda MacGregor
Take Five: New Middle Grade Books in September
These Take Five lists can help you with collection development, displays, reading lists, and more.
Notes From a Writing Collaboration: Don’t Strangle Your Partner and Other Bits of Hard-Won Wisdom, a guest post by Ben and Ann Brashares
As we prepare for the launch of our new series, Westfallen, we get asked one question more than any other: “What was it like writing a novel with your sister/brother?”
Facing Horror with Uncertainty: The Many Ways One Can be Unfinished, a guest post by Cheryl Isaacs
The Unfinished is all about finding the bravery to face uncertainty in many ways – in one’s relationships, identity and creepy monsters that haunt the forest.
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Book Review: Wishbone by Justine Pucella Winans
Filled with plenty of action, this look at feelings, strengths, found family, and friendship is a satisfyingly creepy fantastical story full of heart.
Stronger than Ever: Latine Representation in YA Dark Academia, a guest post by NoNieqa Ramos
What does it mean when a book like THEY THOUGHT THEY BURIED US is praised for “strong queer Puerto Rican/Latine representation”?
Book Review: Once They See You: 13 Stories to Shiver and Shock by Josh Allen with illustrations by Sarah J. Coleman
If you book talk this title, be prepared to have a hold list a mile long. Compulsively readable and creepy enough to satisfying even the most demanding of readers, this collection is a hit.
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Love Letters, a guest post by Polly Horvath
Library Girl took me back to the forgotten memories of my childhood and the Kalamazoo Public Library. It took me back to that time in childhood when you are let loose from your parents’ leash and begin to explore the world on your own.
Queering the Classic YA Love Triangle, a guest post by Alicia Jasinska
I know there are readers who are tired of love triangles, and I don’t blame them. But I’m also a firm believer that no trope is overdone until everyone has had an equal chance to play with it, especially authors from marginalized backgrounds.
Book Review: Kareem Between by Shifa Saltagi Safadi
Told in verse and full of references to books Kareem has read, this is a beautiful story of hope, empathy, confidence, and courage.
Boo! Spooky Middle Grade Titles to Share All Year, a guest post by Adrianna Cuevas
Check out these titles by queer and BIPOC authors that will satisfy young readers as we approach spooky season
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