Tough topics

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October 14, 2024 by Amanda MacGregor

How One Book Can Impact One Reader . . . For Life, a guest post by Sydney Dunlap

One afternoon when my fifth-grade class was at the library for our weekly visit, my friend Jessica handed me a purple paperback book. “I just finished this,” she said. “It’s SO good. You have to read it.”

September 5, 2024 by Amanda MacGregor

Using Magical Realism to Tackle Tough Topics in Middle Grade, a guest post by Heather Murphy Capps

These days, writing and recommending books about tough subjects can feel risky…but there’s never been a time when it’s more necessary to offer readers greater depth and breadth of subjects and diversity of characters.

October 1, 2021 by Amanda MacGregor

Knowing and Not Knowing, a guest post by Barbara Dee

I think of all my MG books as journeys, with the main character ultimately discovering that people are complex, nothing is simple, and ambiguity is okay. It’s a journey that often begins with that paradoxical state of knowing-and-not-knowing, and ends with acceptance and understanding.