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Mobilizing Alumni Networks for School Library Advocacy High school alumni are a potentially useful group for advocating about school library issues and initiatives. While some alumni have left your area, many towns and neighborhoods continue to have well-established networks of local graduates who can be mobilized for advocacy. With the current fight over censorship and […]
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I know there are readers who are tired of love triangles, and I don’t blame them. But I’m also a firm believer that no trope is overdone until everyone has had an equal chance to play with it, especially authors from marginalized backgrounds.
Told in verse and full of references to books Kareem has read, this is a beautiful story of hope, empathy, confidence, and courage.
Jason Chin's next nonfiction picture book is called HURRICANE and today we have a first look at the cover.
It's been ten years since the release of THE RIGHT WORD: ROGET AND HIS THESAURUS and we figured we'd have a chat with its creators about its creation and legacy.
Check out this week's list of new comics, manga, and graphic novels for readers 12 and under, featuring Uprooted: A Memoir About What Happens When Your Family Moves Back, from Roaring Brook Press, and Shock City, from Viking Books for Young Readers.
We have 82 books on our Mock Newbery list so far...but what are we missing? Lists and pie charts help us try to identify the genres, categories, and age levels that seem to be garnering the most...and the least attention among Heavy Medal readers so far.
Check out these titles by queer and BIPOC authors that will satisfy young readers as we approach spooky season
A good read that's a bit demanding, a fact that certainly won't scare off the library kids like Essie who love to read.
While driving home from a book event a couple weeks back, I turned on the recorder and talked about how THE SHIP IN THE WINDOW came to be.
This year Duck for President was not re-released alongside the presidential election. Is there a reason for that? We aim to figure it out.
While driving home from a book release event for The Ship in the Window, I turned on my recorder and talked about how the book came to be.
It's time to talk about early favorites on Heavy Medal and gauge our readers (that's you!)- please take our Beginning of the Year Check-In Survey by Weds. Sept. 11.
DC Comics' superstar writer Tom King joins artist Dan Parent for a special one-shot in which Archie tries to finally decide between Betty and Veronica...by tossing a coin.
As always, a list of five is only sharing a tiny bit of what’s new this month. Check your local library for other new releases!
How do we make the world safe for all of us to express our emotions? To begin with, we need to stick together as we cry and laugh our way through the world.
Can you name these 3 books by their LEGO-fied covers?
Mobilizing Alumni Networks for School Library Advocacy High school alumni are a potentially useful group for advocating about school library issues and initiatives. While some alumni have left your area, many towns and neighborhoods continue to have well-established networks of local graduates who can be mobilized for advocacy. With the current fight over censorship and […]
Is this a future classic? The answer may lie in the goats.
Authors Cathy Carr and JOanne Rossmassler Fritz discuss adults in middle grade fiction
A fantastic fast-paced environmental mystery with wide appeal.
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