Ideas
Teen librarian Cindy Shutts shares some conservation based educational programming inspired by The Real World of Endangered Pokemon
Maybe it’s our way of trying to make sense of the world around us—to explain the unexplainable. Or, maybe it’s because, fundamentally, humans are storytellers.
While I was outlining Juneberry Blue, I pondered these questions: Are forgotten kids allowed to have magic? Who decides who gets magic and who doesn’t?
Even if no deep, dark secrets are unearthed, they are bound to learn things – and maybe share things of their own – that will help them understand others, and maybe themselves, just a little bit better.
They don’t have all the answers. They make mistakes. There’s no sugar-coating their pain or flaws here. And there shouldn’t have to be. Give me all the unlikeable girls.
The authors talk wrestling, Orange Julius, kayfabe, identity, grief, and more.
Camp Prodigy stars Tate and Eli as nonbinary violists, like me, and both are frequently misgendered by those who don’t know them, like me!
When we’re missing new books specifically targeted to middle grade readers, we’re failing to meet their needs. Specifically, we can’t help them navigate their deepest, most anxiety-provoking concern: the mucky, heart-wrenching terrain of being in or out of the club.
Every Happily Ever After is going to look a little different. Stories, in any form, can be an escape. But within unfamiliar settings and struggles we see the truth of the world around us.
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