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A Riveting Read: A review of Caroline Starr Rose’s The Burning Season, a guest post by author Linda Williams Jackson
The Burning Season is a riveting read that I highly recommend. I was so emotionally invested in the story that I got choked up toward the end.
A Love Letter, a guest post by Ann Dee Ellis
My new middle grade novel, This Cookie Will Change Your Life, is a love letter to libraries, which is a funny thing to write, but it’s true.
Neshama: Unearthing Family Stories to Heal Complex Identities, a guest post by Marcella Pixley
In Judaism, neshama describes the holy, everlasting spark inside every human being that lasts in the universe, even after a person passes away.
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Fandoms and Friendships: How a Boy Band Gave Me Community, a guest post by Crystal Maldonado
I was about to enter middle school, and I desperately yearned for a new obsession that could distract me from reality. I found it in the form of a cassette tape of the latest Backstreet Boys single, “All I Have to Give.”
Bringing People Together, a guest post by E.C. Myers
I always imagined GAMERS as a celebration of video games and how they can connect people, and I hope this book appeals to those who grew up playing them as much as those who are still growing up.
How Does This Book Make Me Better? Using the Book, Head, Heart strategy, a guest post by Amy Brownlee
I had been a school librarian and middle-grade reading teacher for 25 years when I read Disrupting Thinking: Why How We Read Matters, a professional title by Kylene Beers and Robert Probst, and it completely changed the way I framed the task of reading for my students. What’s brilliant about the book is that so […]
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Nothing Good Comes From Hiding Even the Ugliest Truths in the Closet, a guest post by Rob Costello
Certain kinds of important, difficult, and formative queer experiences are not being truthfully explored in books for queer teens—primarily, I believe, because they make adult gatekeepers uncomfortable.
Inspired by Scooby Doo: Character Creation in Love at Second Sight, a guest post by F. T. Lukens
The characters in Love at Second Sight are not direct parallels to the Scooby Doo crew despite referencing them at one point, but they were one of many inspirations. And with that, I would like to introduce the Love at Second Sight characters through the lens of Scooby Doo.
Tontines: A Great Investment? Or a Great Way to Get Bumped Off? A guest post by Dianne K. Salerni
Eventually, I decided that the nefarious plotting of my young tontine contenders was not only acceptable for middle grade but also funny—for the same reason that Home Alone is a comedy and not a horror movie.
Readers Need To See Stories of Conservation Optimism, a guest post by Nancy Castaldo
Optimism fosters a sense of collective action and shows that no effort is too small.
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