Public Libraries
The plight of immigrant families at the U.S. border prompted the Brooklyn Public Library and others to act.
Middle grade author M.G. Hennessey offers up some tricks to spark summer reading that have made a difference at her house. Family book club? Yes, please!
In a moving essay, Jasmine Warga shares about her uncle Abdalla, her trips to Jordan, identity, and writing a new story.
Debut author Zack Smedley shares a piece from his archives about letting go, making mistakes, and becoming an adult.
Cordelia Anderson spoke at Fort Worth Public Library about the power of storytelling in promoting libraries.
What happened when Thing 2 was assigned a living history museum project? Even I was surprised by the facts this budding feminist chose to highlight.
In Molly E. Lee's forthcoming novel, ASK ME ANYTHING, a young hacker, Amber, steps up to biases and gender stereotypes determined to prove them wrong.
My latest YA contemporary, Serious Moonlight, is a book about Birdie and Daniel, two teens who meet one rainy afternoon in Seattle and impulsively decide to hook up. Unfortunately, the experience is bumbling and embarrassing. Birdie’s only solace is that she’ll never see him again, but alas, when she lands a job working the front […]
I’d first heard about Irish Industrial Schools during a trip to Ireland. A book titled Fear of the Collar by Patrick Touher came up during a conversation at an event I was attending. The story was an account of his experience in the Artaine Industrial School, run by the Christian Brothers. I bought the book […]
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