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Growing up with undiagnosed and untreated anxiety—let’s call it what it is, mental illness—was what led me to write the main character in my debut middle grade horror, The Clackity, as a young girl with anxiety
Kids being brave, creating change, determined to make this world a better one: That’s really what my book is about. I like that all the lockdown despair ended up in such a hopeful place.
It took eleven re-envisionings over six years, but now, holding the finished book in my hands, I know that what feels impossible often isn’t.
It's Jewish American Heritage Month, and SLJ spoke with authors about the importance of writing Jewish characters and stories.
It might be the "creepy" factor that will interest kids in picking up this book, but it's the layers to the story and the complicated, authentic characters that will keep kids reading.
I can't think of any book that really captures what it's like to deal with that anger inside of you and the fallout from it like this one does.
Let's look at some exciting middle grade books coming out in the second half of 2022!
In THE NATURAL GENIUS OF ANTS, Harvard Corson has a huge task in front of him and only a short summer to accomplish it—trying to get his doctor father to forgive himself for a very big mistake that cost a baby her life. Not only that, but Harvard also needs to keep an ant colony alive!
SLJ and NCTE collaborated to create 18 booklists of titles to replace, or use as a companion to, canon "classics."
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