I. Love. This. So. Much.

Thanks so much to everyone who stopped by @thecuriousreader this afternoon to celebrate the launch of JUST READ IT! 📚🧡

Louisiana's HB 777 would criminalize libraries or librarians who join the American Library Association with steep fines, jail time, or hard labor. It would also dismantle a state university's masters program.

This isn't a joke. Take action *now*.

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Kealia swears by it.

I have no idea what I’m getting myself into…

Croft’s Project LIT Community meeting discussed The Magic Fish today ZooSchoolMNPS!!

“Here’s what I know for sure:
I have a lot to learn about other people.” 🙌 Can’t wait to booktalk this timely novel in verse to #fifthgrade to teach perspectives and empathy. #mglit Project LIT Community Charlesbridge Charles Waters Hickory Ridge Elementary #JourneyOfABlueDevil #BrunswickPRIDE

Excited to read The Inheritance Games with Project Lit 🔥 Lincoln Abes All I’ve heard is this series is addicting! 💚📖🔥

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“We live in a time when choosing what we read is critically important. A time when other people, who lack the imaginations to fully embrace all of our humanity, are trying to limit what our kids read. Ironically, it is through reading that we grow our humanity.” Kwame Alexander❤️

We lose the habit of reading because we’re afraid of wasting our time. We think we need to be productive and “on the go” at all times. But people are not machines, and you are nourished by naps and fiction and basking in sunlight, no less than by food and drink.

Boosting!

Project LIT Community changed my life, lives of my students, my career trajectory, reading culture & attitudes broadly at #AbeNation & Tacoma Schools I’m thrilled sharing about Project Lit 🔥 Lincoln Abes widely& loudly!Thanks School Librarians United for the microphone & Jarred Amato for the leadership!

Asked about rises in banned books: “The discussions that [The 57 Bus] has engendered that will no longer happen in those areas & the students who won’t have opportunities to learn from their stories is devastating” Dashka Slater Dashka Slater WWU Project LIT Community Project Lit 🔥 Lincoln Abes

📢TY Lincoln High School Library📖❤️ c/o Kristin Sierra and Carinna Tarvin for sharing how Project LIT Community builds a #reading culture in your schools! Special offers from Literati and Capstone 📚 💻 🌈 apple.co/3wiWpWJ

It’s a cover reveal for THE BEAUTIFUL GAME!
Illustrated by Lauren Dimaya.
Designed by Sylvia Bi.
Coming out from Algonquin Young Readers Sept 17, 2024!
Full book description here:
hachettebookgroup.com/titles/yamile-…

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Friends! I am so honored!

Hidden Truths has been selected as a Project LIT Community Book Club pick!

I have such respect and admiration for Project LIT and its mission. And am excited that Hidden Truths will be a part of this!

Thank you!💛

Random House Children's Books
Random House Children's Books School & Library

if you’re someone who still reads for pleasure, you’re heroic. if you’re able to unplug from all the chaos of our entertainment culture and disappear into the warmth and quiet of a book, that is a superpower and I’m very glad to know you.

I submitted Tears of a Tiger to 25 publishing companies and received 24 rejection notices. The very last letter almost ended up in the discard pile (rejection can be tough!), but I decided to open it, and to my surprise, there was a letter of acceptance from Simon and Schuster.