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Give this fans of "kids on bikes" nostalgia stories full of weirdness and a surprising amount of heart.
Funeral Girl is about sixteen-year-old Georgia Richter who lives in her family’s funeral home--she is literally surrounded by death, which doesn’t help her death anxiety. To make matters more difficult, she can speak to the dead.
I’m more determined than ever to create characters and stories that represent the identities and lives of people who have always been and continue to be marginalized. We deserve better.
Ed tech platform Edmodo will shut down in September, the Center for Antiracist Education will no longer produce new materials; Sora is a Google Classroom add-on, and more in this edition of News Bites.
I was working with the British Columbia Forest Service as a summer job that lasted only a few weeks. But the experience inspired my new middle-grade novel Fire on Headless Mountain and became a part of the story.
Powerfully told, this look at racism, police brutality, and activism will leave readers wanting more books from Arnold. A must-have book.
How am I supposed to cover the political complexities of incarceration in America for that eight-year-old who just showed me their cat?
New policies are impacting school library purchases in Pennsylvania and Florida; one Texas district cancels its Scholastic Book Fairs for the year; and a South Carolina state senator threatens to eliminate the salaries of public library executives in his county in the latest Censorship Roundup.
How a notebook I kept as a kid became the spark for my first novel, Frances and the Monster, twenty years later.
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