
A Fuse #8 Production
Amanda MacGregor, March 11, 2025 | new books
Today's summer list from Penguin Young Readers centers LGBTQIA+ stories/characters and race/racism
Ally Watkins, March 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
If you work with young people and books, you already know that graphic novels are insanely popular. In response, there has been a huge publishing boom resulting in graphic novels that are not just entertaining, but that also address serious social issues in a way that make readers sit up and take notice. Last summer, […]
Karen Jensen, MLS, March 9, 2025 | Sunday Reflections
In this week's Sunday Reflections, teen librarian Karen Jensen reflects on how the concept of DEI relates to her personal and professional life and the concept of the Imago Dei
Amanda MacGregor, March 7, 2025 | new books
Books featuring grief, a magic school, a treasure hunt, a robot, and a young adventurer!
Amanda MacGregor, March 7, 2025 | Author Interview
Author Trang Thanh Tran joins us to talk about their new book THEY BLOOM AT NIGHT.
Amanda MacGregor, March 6, 2025 | Guest Post
In The Peach Thief, my 13-year-old protagonist—a starving workhouse girl—poses as a boy in order to get a tenuous job scrubbing pots in the all-male world of an earl’s walled kitchen garden.
Amanda MacGregor, March 5, 2025 | Guest Post
Even as we need to keep telling the painful truth of book bans, we also need to take extra care to celebrate and elevate the unique gifts that each book offers.
Amanda MacGregor, March 4, 2025 | Guest Post
Science fiction is fun, curious, and adventurous. It bends the reality of our world and stretches our imaginations to explore all the “what ifs” floating within our universe.
This nuanced look at life with a mentally ill parent shows that change and hope are possible, but that one kid can't achieve those things on his own, nor should he have to.
Amanda MacGregor, March 3, 2025 | Author Interview
Author Jenna Voris joins us to talk about her new book, Say a Little Prayer.
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