Moni Ritchie Hadley
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Moni Ritchie Hadley
@bookthreader.bsky.social
Half-Japanese military brat, #kidlit author 🌸
MISO MAGIC ('24)🌟
THE STAR FESTIVAL ('21)🎋
ANZU AND THE ART OF FRIENDSHIP ('23)❤️
Write Kidlit NOW! Scholarship ✍️
Rep: @sarah_redfoxlit 🦊
https://linktr.ee/moniritchiehadley
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Feeling so grateful for the Honorable Mention I received after applying to the Write Kidlit Now scholarship! Thank you so much @bookthreader.bsky.social for your efforts and generosity! What a boost for those of us getting started on our writing journey.

#kidlit #community #scholarship #kindness
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I'll be reading #misomagic at The Bowers Museum Saturday 10/25. A free book for the first 35 to get tickets! #santaana #orangecounty #storytime
www.bowers.org
October 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Love this Scholarships like this really help young voices shine,so curious to see the winners📖
October 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Children's book writers, the Write Kidlit NOW! Scholarship opens tomorrow. 👍👏🙌
Find out more about the Write Kidlit NOW! Scholarship at www.moniritchie.com
Open for the month of October only!
#kidlit
#writeforkids
#picturebooks
#amwriting
#amquerying
#middlegrade
#ya
#scholarship
#education
September 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
July 3, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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HUGE fan of my public #libraries! Their digital collections (esp #audiobooks) come to the rescue daily!!!🎧📚💙
What are you doing today to help your public library? Be a part of the solution and not the problem. #SaveLibraries @la-cac.org
June 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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After losing her Greek immigrant parents Kali’s life in the housing projects of 1940s LA takes a turn when a powerful aunt (Athena) offers her the magnificence of Olympus —but Kali must leave behind her goblin of a little brother, and the only true magic she’s ever known #Questpit #AG #MG
February 13, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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When Zeus and Athena strike a deal,12-YO Medusa must travel to modern day Italy to find her own monstrous voice and learn to work together with her cranky sisters to rescue their aunt (Zeus’ oracle) from a revengeful sea monster that threatens to plunge the human world into chaos #Questpit #AG #MG
February 13, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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An intersection in time brings together a girl from the past and a guy from the future together to take an existential quest for ❤️ & meaning in Joshua tree, a magical CA desert – – a quest that teaches them about resilience, sacrifice, & what it means to be alive #Questpit #AG #W #YA
February 13, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Nix & Sol intersect in time on an existential quest to save the world and save each other. If Nix helps Sol will he exist? If Sol helps Nix will they ever meet? If their plan works, will TIME ever let them be together? #Questpit #W #AG #YA
February 13, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Three 12-year-old best friends are excited to go to summer camp, but when the counselors pit them against each other as part of a social inequality experiment, they must restore their friendships and team up against the ruthless counselors to survive.
#Questpit #Q #MG #amquerying
February 12, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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February 1, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Comin soon 2/21/25
Tickets below
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February 8, 2025 at 5:00 AM
It’s lovely to hear from the recipients of the #wknscholarship 🌸 A #mentorship with Mira is a dream!!
#anwriting #kidlit
Thank you, Children's Book Academy for the incredibly helpful one-on-one mentorship! My story has never been in better shape! @mira-cba.bsky.social Thank you also, @bookthreader.bsky.social for this opportunity through your scholarship!
January 18, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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100 Children’s & YA Books with Muslim Characters

buff.ly/4h01PIn via @Coloursofus

#ReadYourWorld #KidLit #Muslim
100 Children's & YA Books with Muslim Characters - Colours of Us
Presenting our extensive list of children's and YA book with strong, non-stereotypical Muslim Characters! For Ages 0 to 18.
buff.ly
December 18, 2024 at 9:04 PM
A huge thank you to the LAPL for this huge honor. Congrats, Ann, and to all the other PB creators on this list!! 🌸❤️🌸
December 18, 2024 at 5:10 AM
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Check out fellow bsky military brat, @bookthreader.bsky.social ‘s book, MISO MAGIC! 💖

I wish I had more books like this back when my kids were littles. Having spent many of my formative years on Okinawa,the Japanese & Okinawan culture of my friends’ families still touch my own.

www.moniritchie.com
November 30, 2024 at 10:42 PM
🎉Congratulations to the winners of this year’s Write Kidlit Now! Scholarships!!

Laura McIntosh (MG Music in My Heart)

Becky Goodman (PB Oranges to Apples)

Kristen Kareem (YA Blood before Rain)

Honorable mentions:
Savannah Tries
Eric Sondergeld

@laurawrites @beckygoodman
@ericsondergeld
#kidlit
November 10, 2024 at 10:50 PM
Deadline is midnight tonight!!
#kidlit #amwriting #alwayslearning
Find out more about the Write Kidlit NOW! Scholarship at www.moniritchie.com
Open for the month of October only!
#kidlit
#writeforkids
#picturebooks
#amwriting
#amquerying
#middlegrade
#ya
#scholarship
#education
October 31, 2024 at 7:20 PM
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Dear author and illustrator friends, editors, reviewers, and publishers, in the #Kidlitcommunity, let’s find each other so I can leave X!
a cartoon character from south park is asking if we can go now
ALT: a cartoon character from south park is asking if we can go now
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October 31, 2024 at 6:48 PM
Find out more about the Write Kidlit NOW! Scholarship at www.moniritchie.com
Open for the month of October only!
#kidlit
#writeforkids
#picturebooks
#amwriting
#amquerying
#middlegrade
#ya
#scholarship
#education
October 20, 2024 at 6:30 AM