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The Myth of Permanence, a guest post by Kellan McDaniel
Vampires face an interesting dilemma in immortality. Their bodies, generally, remain the same while their minds change and while the world changes. Context matters. What does it mean to be queer in 1960 vs. 2010 vs. 2025?
Exploring Social Justice Through Comics, a guest post by Amy Brownlee
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, […]
Girls Posing as Boys: Stories Still Worth Telling? A guest post by Linda Joan Smith
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.
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Turning the Page on Book Bans, a guest post by Ashley Hope Pérez
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.
Why Middle Grade Needs More Sci-Fi, a guest post by Samantha van Leer
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.
Coming Together As We Come Out: Multicultural Teen Coming Out Stories, a guest post
Today’s guest post is by an Illinois youth services librarian known online as RAE, sharing her knowledge of queer YA coming out stories. Juliet Takes a Breath Latina Queer Lesbian Experience “Juliet Takes a Breath” is a coming-of-age teen book that digs into the curtails of a Puerto Rican college student from the Bronx, as […]
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How to Write A Book That’s Both Timely and Timeless, a guest post by Barbara Dee
Tear This Down is a book that I hope will spark lively discussions about topics that are front-and-center in today’s news: women’s rights, voting rights, and social justice.
Paper Boats, Sand, and Hydrogen Balloons: The Meaning Behind the Magic in Cousins in the Time of Magic, a guest post by Emma Otheguy
If someone wants to ask if I planned the significance of these objects, you can tell them yes: with plane flights and research and a lifetime of reading about boats and sand and magical balloons that make large distances small, I planned it all.
Anyone Reading This Can Be a Writer: Tips and Insights You Might Not Know, a guest post by Nathanael Lessore
I truly, firmly, believe that anyone can write a book. The thing that stops most people, isn’t talent, it’s time.
The Necessity for Marginalized Stories Today and Always, a guest post by Wahab Algarmi
I was naive. I didn’t think we needed Almost Sunset.
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