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From School Library Journal: Amanda’s Potential Printz Picks
Top 2025 Printz Award contenders include poetry, stories featuring characters at both the younger and older ends of the age spectrum, graphic works, and an author who could get her fourth Printz recognition.
Grief and Loss in Middle Grade: An Interview with Gary D. Schmidt
The world can be a hard and terrible place, and the world can be a fantastically whole and enlivening place. It’s both, and it’s where we live. We can survive the first, and even grow. We can rejoice in the second, and practice empathy.
Grief and Loss in Middle Grade: An Interview with Christina Li
It’s important to address topics of death and loss in middle grade because children do go through those experiences.
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Grief and Loss in Middle Grade: An Interview with Debbie Fong
I think the best stories are a reflection of life, with all of its messiness, pain, and beauty.
Grief and Loss in Middle Grade: An Interview with K. A. Reynolds
Kids don’t grow up in a vacuum; they are terrified and confused and experience great loss, too. If we want our children to feel safe and to grow into emotionally intelligent adults, they need to know that death is a part of living.
Grief and Loss in Middle Grade: An Interview with Emily Barth Isler
They say to “write what scares you,” and I often use my own fears and anxieties as a guide of urgency for determining what topics people need help starting conversations about.
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Grief and Loss in Middle Grade: An Interview with Jess Redman
The truth is we need books that tackle tough topics because kids are already tackling them—whether they’re going through the issue themselves, supporting a friend, or just trying to understand how the world works.
Grief and Loss in Middle Grade: An Interview with Lisa Stringfellow
Sometimes adults shy away from discussing tough topics with children, but those conversations are necessary.
In School Library Journal: Good Grief: Middle Grade Authors Normalize Loss
These authors show readers that grief is not something to “get over,” but something to adapt to, to work through. It’s OK to not know how to feel, what to do, or what to say.
In School Library Journal: Let’s Talk Periods: Middle Grade Books About Menstruation
Centering dignity and equity, authors strive to normalize the topic of menstruation and show how different people experience it.
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