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Dear Teachers! How'd you like to talk with some of your favorite middle grade authors? To thank teachers, some friends and I are hosting a zoom book club and would like 13 of you to join us. To enter for a chance to win, retweet and follow me. (Author lineup subject to change)

‘Enforced childbirth is slavery’: Margaret Atwood on the right to abortion theguardian.com/us-news/2022/m…

From Hooper’s Store to Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice Princeton #Pride Honored to welcome Sesame Street’s Alan Muraoka as our inspirational Grand Marshal Proud our friend & GLAAD award winner will march with us in solidarity & dance with us in celebration Join us MAÑANA~ facebook.com/events/5313909…

By nature, a reader is independent and fierce. The folks who want to ban books are not readers; they are wannabe oppressors. The reader will win.

Jon Stewart and the state of Kansas have just reminded us all - that the power of the people is much stronger than the people in power.

Yes, at the Thanksgiving table, I will ask everyone present if they’ve spoken up at their local school board meeting about book banning and censorship. If they haven’t, I’ll tell them they need to show. I’ll show them what to say. Silence is complicity. diversebooks.org/letter-from-13…

My biggest takeaway after spending a few days with Florida librarians is that the situation down here is far worse and more frightening than can be gleaned from the outside. I’ve been having lots of conversations and doing some brainstorming to come up with ideas for how… 1/2

This debate surfaces every year. Fun thread for #ppspdspot

words have power. hateful rhetoric cannot have that power. #DontExemptUs

I think our obsession with data removes the wonder and curiosity from learning.

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EVERY CHURCH AND PASTOR should have joined MLK in the fight for civil rights. They did not. They were wrong. History remembers. EVERY CHURCH AND PASTOR should be joining the LGBTQ+ community in the fight for civil rights. They are not. They are wrong. History will remember.

Powerful! A Curriculum of Irrelevancy - kylenebeers.com/blog/2021/10/2…

The road to fascism is paved with center left so called thought leaders telling vulnerable people that they should chill out and rephrase their arguments so as to not offend those in power.

We should trust individuals to make their own decisions. Raise your voice for everyone's freedom to read. Join the movement. #UniteAgainstBookBans uniteagainstbookbans.org/take-action/ via American Library Association

Happy Wishing Day and thank you to Katherine Applegate (kaaauthor.bsky.social) for inspiring us to dream big and welcome everyone. My fifth graders wished for a new bike, a pet duck, steak with mashed potatoes, chocolate ramen, and--of course--world peace (among others).

Why representation matters: Here’s a student reflection from the “book tasting” in my 5th-grade classroom. ALL students deserve to find “mirrors” on school library shelves and feel the joy this child shared with me in that moment. Author Lisa Fipps EveryLibrary #ppspdspot

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Hey #ppspdspot have we ever had a nonfiction selection for our book chat? Can’t recall. So many great choices here!