Kerry O’Malley Cerra: author 🤟🏼
@kerryomalleycerra.bsky.social
Author of JUST A DROP OF WATER, HEAR ME, & MAKE A LITTLE WAVE. Coming soon: NF PB The Gallaudet Eleven: The Story of NASA’s Deaf Bioastronauts (Little, Brown ‘26) “Retired” high school librarian #deaf
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🎉BOOK NEWS🎉 This story is dear to my 💜, & I'm honored to tell it. Thanks to my editor, Milena, & to Little, Brown, and Company for agreeing to a deaf trifecta--a deaf story by a deaf author and artwork by a deaf illustrator. To my agent, @janinele.bsky.social, thanks for introducing me to the story!
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Authors & illustrators! LitWorld's World Read Aloud Day is Feb. 4th - want to Zoom into schools for read-alouds on that day? Here's the sign-up form: forms.gle/eN4FwA9HB4Fb...
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November 1, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Authors & illustrators! LitWorld's World Read Aloud Day is Feb. 4th - want to Zoom into schools for read-alouds on that day? Here's the sign-up form: forms.gle/eN4FwA9HB4Fb...
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Also, EYES OPEN by Lyn Miller-Lachmann is a Social Justice Literature Award Honor Book, and MAKE A LITTLE WAVE by Kerry O’Malley Cerra is on the recommended reading list!
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October 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Also, EYES OPEN by Lyn Miller-Lachmann is a Social Justice Literature Award Honor Book, and MAKE A LITTLE WAVE by Kerry O’Malley Cerra is on the recommended reading list!
sites.csulb.edu/l-sr/books/b...
@lynmillerlachmann.bsky.social @kerryomalleycerra.bsky.social @lernerbooks.bsky.social
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For those who can’t afford Taylor Swift’s new album, be sure to check your local library. My county library has The Life of a Showgirl up on the Hoopla app, and it’s free for me to stream with my library card. Libraries for the win! #taylorswift
October 7, 2025 at 3:20 AM
For those who can’t afford Taylor Swift’s new album, be sure to check your local library. My county library has The Life of a Showgirl up on the Hoopla app, and it’s free for me to stream with my library card. Libraries for the win! #taylorswift
Answering the question about why I refer to myself as deaf. Happy Deaf Awareness Month! 💜🤟🏼 #deafawareness #whyisign
September 15, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Answering the question about why I refer to myself as deaf. Happy Deaf Awareness Month! 💜🤟🏼 #deafawareness #whyisign
Happy Deaf Awareness Month from this deaf girl! It’s ask me anything time. #deafawareness #authorlife #askmeanything
September 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Happy Deaf Awareness Month from this deaf girl! It’s ask me anything time. #deafawareness #authorlife #askmeanything
Quick help: mom and I both loved Mrs. Harris goes to Paris. We’d like to watch something similar tonight—a sweet, feel good movie. Suggestions?
May 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Quick help: mom and I both loved Mrs. Harris goes to Paris. We’d like to watch something similar tonight—a sweet, feel good movie. Suggestions?
Had a conversation with a fellow deaf author recently, & something she said stuck with me: that the publishing world doesn’t view deaf writers—or stories with deaf characters—as “marginalized enough” to amplify them the way it does with other voices. I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it.
April 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Had a conversation with a fellow deaf author recently, & something she said stuck with me: that the publishing world doesn’t view deaf writers—or stories with deaf characters—as “marginalized enough” to amplify them the way it does with other voices. I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it.
Speechless. And honored. So very honored!
Happy Earth Day, my sharkies! Thank you, Tue Nature Generation, @lernerbooks.bsky.social , and @janinele.bsky.social
Happy Earth Day, my sharkies! Thank you, Tue Nature Generation, @lernerbooks.bsky.social , and @janinele.bsky.social
April 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Speechless. And honored. So very honored!
Happy Earth Day, my sharkies! Thank you, Tue Nature Generation, @lernerbooks.bsky.social , and @janinele.bsky.social
Happy Earth Day, my sharkies! Thank you, Tue Nature Generation, @lernerbooks.bsky.social , and @janinele.bsky.social
Last week, I had to miss the award dinner for the Florida Book Awards due to my commitments at TXLA. But here’s my medal & a fancy sticker for my book. Huge thanks to the committee for recognizing my work & the importance of activism, ocean conservation, & sharks!
@lernerbooks.bsky.social #mglit
@lernerbooks.bsky.social #mglit
April 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Last week, I had to miss the award dinner for the Florida Book Awards due to my commitments at TXLA. But here’s my medal & a fancy sticker for my book. Huge thanks to the committee for recognizing my work & the importance of activism, ocean conservation, & sharks!
@lernerbooks.bsky.social #mglit
@lernerbooks.bsky.social #mglit
Wordle 1,389 1/6*
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Finally! It’s been my starting word since day 1!
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Finally! It’s been my starting word since day 1!
April 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Wordle 1,389 1/6*
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Finally! It’s been my starting word since day 1!
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Finally! It’s been my starting word since day 1!
I’m so excited for this and can’t wait for my copy to arrive! Happy birthday Hazel and Jamie! 🎉
Is it too early to celebrate? It's Hazel the Handful's #bookbirthday! 🎉
April 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I’m so excited for this and can’t wait for my copy to arrive! Happy birthday Hazel and Jamie! 🎉
I’m raffling off two virtual author visits for attendeees at #txla25 #txla2025. Find me at any point to enter. Or message me to meet up. My books cover themes of activism, hearing loss & deafness, social justice, conservation (particularly sharks🦈), body autonomy, and more. I can’t wait to meet you!
April 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I’m raffling off two virtual author visits for attendeees at #txla25 #txla2025. Find me at any point to enter. Or message me to meet up. My books cover themes of activism, hearing loss & deafness, social justice, conservation (particularly sharks🦈), body autonomy, and more. I can’t wait to meet you!
Texas librarians, I can't wait to meet you next week. Having lived in Plano for three years as a kid(I went to Memorial Elementary!), I'm excited to go back! And, I'm raffling off two FREE virtual author visits. Be sure to find me! #txla2025
March 27, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Texas librarians, I can't wait to meet you next week. Having lived in Plano for three years as a kid(I went to Memorial Elementary!), I'm excited to go back! And, I'm raffling off two FREE virtual author visits. Be sure to find me! #txla2025
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📣 Who’s going to #TXLA25?
📌 I hope you’ll join @kerryomalleycerra.bsky.social @alitereseauthor.bsky.social @nancytandon.bsky.social & @lynmillerlachmann.bsky.social & I on Thursday 4/3 for our #kidlit panel from 2-3 pm
📌 I hope you’ll join @kerryomalleycerra.bsky.social @alitereseauthor.bsky.social @nancytandon.bsky.social & @lynmillerlachmann.bsky.social & I on Thursday 4/3 for our #kidlit panel from 2-3 pm
March 25, 2025 at 2:00 AM
📣 Who’s going to #TXLA25?
📌 I hope you’ll join @kerryomalleycerra.bsky.social @alitereseauthor.bsky.social @nancytandon.bsky.social & @lynmillerlachmann.bsky.social & I on Thursday 4/3 for our #kidlit panel from 2-3 pm
📌 I hope you’ll join @kerryomalleycerra.bsky.social @alitereseauthor.bsky.social @nancytandon.bsky.social & @lynmillerlachmann.bsky.social & I on Thursday 4/3 for our #kidlit panel from 2-3 pm
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Living mindfully helps us get more out of life and cope better in difficult times 🙏
Join us for #MindfulMarch and find ways to live each day with awareness and kindness actionforhappiness.org/mindful-march
Join us for #MindfulMarch and find ways to live each day with awareness and kindness actionforhappiness.org/mindful-march
February 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Living mindfully helps us get more out of life and cope better in difficult times 🙏
Join us for #MindfulMarch and find ways to live each day with awareness and kindness actionforhappiness.org/mindful-march
Join us for #MindfulMarch and find ways to live each day with awareness and kindness actionforhappiness.org/mindful-march
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Entry 2 of ???: MAKE A LITTLE WAVE by Kerry O'Malley Cerra (@kerryomalleycerra.bsky.social) is a silver medalist in the older children's lit category of the Florida Book Awards!
www.floridabookawards.org
www.floridabookawards.org
February 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Entry 2 of ???: MAKE A LITTLE WAVE by Kerry O'Malley Cerra (@kerryomalleycerra.bsky.social) is a silver medalist in the older children's lit category of the Florida Book Awards!
www.floridabookawards.org
www.floridabookawards.org
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"There’s a lack of stories about the Deaf and hard-of-hearing experience, especially for children who are experiencing hearing loss, and HEAR ME is a great addition to the limited canon." DisLIS recommends HEAR ME by @kerryomalleycerra.bsky.social!
cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/dislis/vol2/...
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Hear Me [book review]
Hear Me by Kerry O'Malley Cerra is a middle grade novel about a twelve year old girl coming to terms with a hearing loss and fighting for her right to deny a cochlear implant surgery.
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January 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
"There’s a lack of stories about the Deaf and hard-of-hearing experience, especially for children who are experiencing hearing loss, and HEAR ME is a great addition to the limited canon." DisLIS recommends HEAR ME by @kerryomalleycerra.bsky.social!
cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/dislis/vol2/...
cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/dislis/vol2/...
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Move Over, Middle Grade: It’s Time for Young Teen Lit, a guest post by Christina Chatel and Marcia Kochel
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Move Over, Middle Grade: It’s Time for Young Teen Lit, a guest post by Christina Chatel and Marcia Kochel
This story begins with two middle school librarians, miles and miles apart, who both feel passionately that what publishers call middle grade literature is not what their students need or want.
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February 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Move Over, Middle Grade: It’s Time for Young Teen Lit, a guest post by Christina Chatel and Marcia Kochel
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At a school visit the other day, while discussing my book HEAR ME and my deafness, a girl asked (in jest), “What does silence sound like?” I don’t think she realized what a profound question it actually was.
January 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
At a school visit the other day, while discussing my book HEAR ME and my deafness, a girl asked (in jest), “What does silence sound like?” I don’t think she realized what a profound question it actually was.
It’s been a long 5 months being dogless for the first time in my life. Today, we found the next hunk-of-furball-love to call ours. In search of a great literary name for him. Currently named Huckleberry (Huck) and knows his name, so we may keep it. Suggestions?
January 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
It’s been a long 5 months being dogless for the first time in my life. Today, we found the next hunk-of-furball-love to call ours. In search of a great literary name for him. Currently named Huckleberry (Huck) and knows his name, so we may keep it. Suggestions?
I am so freaking excited for this one!!! Go, Liz! Oodles and oodles of congratulations.
I can officially say my debut YA romantasy with Delacorte will come out NEXT YEAR 🎉
January 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I am so freaking excited for this one!!! Go, Liz! Oodles and oodles of congratulations.
After 2 days in the hospital due to 2 weeks of dizziness & headaches they released me w/o a diagnosis. They were too afraid & not versed in how to give someone w/ a cochlear implant an mri. The machine was compatible but they wouldn’t do it even after the CT showed a spot. Education goes a long way.
January 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
After 2 days in the hospital due to 2 weeks of dizziness & headaches they released me w/o a diagnosis. They were too afraid & not versed in how to give someone w/ a cochlear implant an mri. The machine was compatible but they wouldn’t do it even after the CT showed a spot. Education goes a long way.
Pondering . . . do you think there is a difference between the phrases peace with self and peace of self?
January 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Pondering . . . do you think there is a difference between the phrases peace with self and peace of self?
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It's a tough time to be a debut book creator. If you are a *debut* #KidLit author, illustrator, or author/illus with a new book, pls reply with ONE post that incl. your book cover, author/illustrator names, launch date, LINK to where people can find more info etc.
Pls help boost? #KidLit #EduSky
Pls help boost? #KidLit #EduSky
a drawing of a person holding a book with the words new book written above it
Alt: Simple cartoon blog character smiling, hugging a book, jumping up and down. Text floating above head reads "new book" with tiny red hearts floating up.
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January 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM