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Tag: Pandemic

November 17, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

A Love Letter to my Hometown – Wuhan, a guest post by Ying Chang Compestine

At its heart, Morning Sun In Wuhan is not merely a book about the pandemic but a tale about kindness, love, and community.

November 14, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

Book Review: Garvey in the Dark by Nikki Grimes

Top-notch writing with wide appeal. A hopeful tool for processing the pandemic, which has occupied a significant portion of students’ young lives.

October 18, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

Old Friend, New Story: Garvey in the Dark, a guest post by Nikki Grimes

I had no intention of writing a children's book set against the pandemic.  None.  And yet, and yet...I felt compelled.  Ultimately, I surrendered to the impossible and set out to write Garvey in the Dark. 

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I Wrote a Book About the Pandemic. I’m Scared No One Will Want to Read It, a guest post by Sara Saedi

October 7, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

I realized that I shouldn’t shrug off my work, because it’s about a pandemic. Maybe instead, what I did was write a book that acknowledged the pandemic. My hope is that I Miss You, I Hate This helps young people process all the loss they’ve endured the last few years.

Power and Choice: How a Pandemic-Written Adventure Can Model the Future, a guest post by Diane Magras

June 9, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

Kids being brave, creating change, determined to make this world a better one: That’s really what my book is about. I like that all the lockdown despair ended up in such a hopeful place.

Finding Power in the Shadows, a guest post by Claire Legrand

February 23, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

How do you take care of yourself—and your creativity—when the world around you feels unsafe?

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Book Review: When the World Turned Upside Down by K. Ibura

January 27, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

Four former friends come together during the pandemic to support each other and help their community in this compelling story full of heart.

Cindy Crushes Programming: Five Thoughts on the (Very Slow) March to the End of the Pandemic, by Teen Librarian Cindy Shutts

April 7, 2021 by Karen Jensen, MLS

As we begin to think about what public library programming might look like after the pandemic (which is not over yet), Teen Librarian Cindy Shutts has some thoughts

Using Canva to Promote Library Services, a guest post by Lisa Krok

March 10, 2021 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Librarian Lisa Krok discusses using Canva to promote library services during the pandemic

Things I Never Learned in Library School: Living, and Dying, in a Pandemic

December 9, 2020 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Teen Librarian Karen Jensen discusses the hardest part of the pandemic today, learning that one of your former teens is dying from Covid-19

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