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SLJ and NCTE collaborated to create 18 booklists of titles to replace, or use as a companion to, canon "classics."
I owe a lot of my knowledge and fascination with history to the passion with which Chinese culture honors its past and the skills of storytellers in passing this heritage to new generations, and I hope to bring some of this passion to a young Western audience.
When I was in middle school, the word “nerd” was thrown around a lot, a word that then meant someone who was too much, who loved something too deeply. This passion was a delicate flame within me when I was 14, a little older than Elissa, the protagonist of my novel, We Are the Song.
When I finally found my way to writing a novel about growing up as an immigrant with hip dysplasia, it was this wholeness—not parts of me segmented into boxes—that guided me. I wrote Breathe and Count Back from Ten because the only way I can imagine creating books in a world that draws boundaries around my identity is to write myself beyond them.
Hand these YA page-turners to high schoolers watching the popular Netflix series about British teens.
Teen librarian Cindy Shutts shares the basic theme and organization of her library's summer reading challenge for this year
Teen librarian Cindy Shutts shares the basic theme and organization of her library's summer reading challenge for this year
I highly recommend this engrossing read and already need to see what mystery Iris and Alice will tackle next. Great read.
Teen Librarian Karen Jensen shares some of the online resources she's reading and talking about for the month of May
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