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Middle Grade Coast-to-Coast @mgcoast2coast.bsky.social · Feb 21
Middle Grade Coast-to-Coast is a group of #kidlit authors excited to connect with classrooms & libraries all over the country. Follow for exciting news & info on upcoming free virtual readings! Or visit our website: www.middlegradecoast2coast.com

#mglit #teachers #librarians #Educators #EduSky
Middle Grade Coast-to-Coast author photos of Nancy Tandon, Lisa Stringfellow, Jenna Yoon, Karina Evans, Melissa Dassori, Erik Jon Slangerup, Sonja Thomas, Michael Leali, Shawn Peters, and Katryn Bury. Middle Grade Coast-to-Coast book covers of Ghost Spruce Point, Kingdom of Dust, Lia Park, Aubrey Covington Breaks the Rules, J.R. Silver Writes her World, Molly and the Mutants, Olive Blackwood Takes Action!, The Truth about Triangles, The Unforgettable Logan Foster, and We are Not Alone.
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bysonjathomas.bsky.social
I'm so excited for the Poulsbo Kids' Book Festival this Sat, Nov 15th 11AM - 3PM! I'll be there with over 30 AMAZING authors and illustrators at North Kitsap High School in Poulsbo, WA. Visit lnkd.in/eGU5H5dK for more details. YAY!

#childrensbooks #libertybaybooks #kidsbooks #mglit #kidlit
November 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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bysonjathomas.bsky.social
Can't wait to moderate the conversation with authors Derrick Barnes & Jose Pimienta this Sat, Nov 8 at the Portland Book Festival. Gabbie (pictured with me) says unfortunately she won't see you there. She loves books but humans not so much 😹

@literary-arts.org #diversekidlit #mglit #pdxbookfest
Literary Arts Portland Book Festival. Lost & Found: Derrick Barnes & Jose Pimienta moderated by Sonja Thomas 2PM at the Judy. Book covers of the Incredibly Human Henson Blayze by Derrick Barnes & Halfway to Somewhere by Jose Pimienta.
November 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
mgcoast2coast.bsky.social
Check out MGC2C author @nancytandon.bsky.social's SPOOKTACULAR #middlegradebooks cover reveal below for The Haunting of Walker Pond. Available for pre-order NOW!

www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ha...

#kidlit #mglit
October 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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mehsi.bsky.social
Today I am part of the magical #TopplingStackTours #BlogTour for Greta Ever After @melissadassori.bsky.social! I am shining a spotlight on the book, come check it out~

#BookBloggers #Blogging #ChildrensBooks #Dolls #FairyTales #BookPromo #BookSky📚💙

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Blog Tour Banner for Greta Ever After by Melissa Dassori featuring the cover on the left of the banner and on the banner a zoomed-in part of the cover featuring a cuckoo clock and a little doll peeking out of the top part
October 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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katrynwrites.bsky.social
In good news (which I know I need these days), my book Drew Leclair Gets a Clue (which has been challenged in four states, and had been pulled from shelves in one county in Florida) seems to have been restored to shelves! Not sure if it's been relocated to YA but I'll take the win 🎉
Cover for Drew Leclair Gets a Clue (white girl cartoon style holding a magnifying glass)
October 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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karisselizabeth.bsky.social
here's a piece on book bans i wrote this summer, feat. reflections and stories from authors @adibkhorram.bsky.social, @kylelukoff.bsky.social, and @katrynwrites.bsky.social as well as my own reflections. ty @electricliterature.com for publishing it!

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Book Bans Continue to Threaten the Wellbeing of Authors - Electric Literature
There are societal, financial, legal, and emotional consequences to book challenges, and writers are facing the brunt of these attacks
electricliterature.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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melissadassori.bsky.social
Great to see GRETA EVER AFTER in this fun roundup.
@unteragency.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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authorsabb.bsky.social
AABB is proud to join this coalition of groups fighting for the freedom to read. Nothing gives us more hope than the understanding that while the fight may be daunting, we are not in it alone. 1/3
Standing together for the freedom to read. All students, all people, deserve and require access to information. Access to books is essential for the free exchange of ideas and for the protection of a healthy democracy. Books hold a pivotal role in our culture—a role that must be projected. During Banned Books Week, we recommit ourselves to fighting censorship and authoritarianism all year round. Today, a well-coordinated network of politically motivated public officials, groups are attacking our fundamental freedoms—including our freedom to read. Thousands of books that predominantly depict people of color and LBGTQ+ people and that discuss sex, gender, sexuality, race, and racism are banned in public schools and libraries across the country. These attacks on school districts and public libraries, educators and librarians, authors and illustrators, and the publishers and booksellers that support them are stripping students, families, and all library patrons of their freedom to read and learn. These efforts upend the lives of students, families, authors, illustrators, educators, and librarians. It leads to erasure from the shelves, harassment from would be censors, denial of access to books, job loss, and financial and emotional distress.
October 3, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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penamerica.bsky.social
🧵 In 2025, book censorship in the United States is rampant and common. Never before in the life of any living American have so many books been systematically removed from school libraries across the country.

Read our new report "The Normalization of Book Banning" at: pen.org/report/the-n...
Graphic for PEN America report titled 'Banned in the USA: The Normalization of Book Bans'. Features a stack of colorful books in front of a blackboard with '22,810 books banned in U.S. public schools, 2021-2025' written in chalk.
October 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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gplastrik.bsky.social
The Cybils awards are taking a hiatus this year. If you are looking for kidlit, middle grade and YA recs, please check out amazing winners from past years. Every time one of us celebrates a good book on any platform or offline, we are supporting literacy and empathy.

Books help.
cybilsawards.bsky.social Cybils Awards @cybilsawards.bsky.social · Feb 18
And I also love that you might not have ever seen some of these books on other awards lists or book lists, which means that having won the CYBILS award means they might make it into the hands of even more kids! ~ Laura @ Literacious

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September 7, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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tiredteachernj.bsky.social
Awesome mglit book and my first of the new schoolyear #gretaeverafter @melissadassori.bsky.social @littlebrownyr.bsky.social thank you for sharing with #bookallies
September 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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engagereaders.bsky.social
Thrilled and honored to see KINGDOM OF DUST included on NYPL's Vibrant Voices Titles for Kids list for 2025-2026!

Thank you to the librarians and staff of the library for sharing my book with your patrons!
www.nypl.org/books-more/r... @harperkids.bsky.social
New York Public Library Vibrant Voices New Books from Authors of Color. Kingdom of Dust by Lisa Stringfellow In this West African-inspired fantasy, a ruthless king conquesrs the kingdom of kun, turning the once-opulent city into ruins. When Amara learns of her destiny, she goes off to restore magic and justice--before Kun is lost forever.
September 3, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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engagereaders.bsky.social
KINGDOM OF DUST is a Massachusetts Book Award Honor Book! 🎉

Thank you so much to the Mass Center for the Book for this amazing honor!

Congratulations also to Robin Wasley and Desmond Hall for their awards. I'm thrilled to be in their company.
Massachusetts Book Award Middle Grade Honor Title Kingdom of Dust by Lisa Stringfellow Massachusetts Book Awards Award to Dead Things are Closer Than They Appear by Robin Wasley Honors to Better Must Come by Desmond Hall and Kingdom of Dust by Lisa Stringfellow
September 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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engagereaders.bsky.social
It’s KINGDOM OF DUST’s first birthday! I’m proud of this little book and glad readers are still finding it. @harperkids.bsky.social #middlegrade

www.lisastringfellow.com/kingdom-of-d...
Happy Book Birthday, Lisa Stringfellow
August 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
mgcoast2coast.bsky.social
Happy Book Birthday to MG Coast-to-Coast author @melissadassori.bsky.social! Her second book, GRETA EVER AFTER, is out today!! #kidlit #mglit
August 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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melissaroske.bsky.social
Don't miss my interview with MG author @melissadassori.bsky.social on today's @themixed-upfiles.bsky.social blog! Melissa's latest #middlegrade novel, GRETA EVER AFTER releases tomorrow, August 19, from @littlebrownyr.bsky.social. #kidlit fromthemixedupfiles.com/interview-wi...
August 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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lbschool.bsky.social
We're so excited for @melissadassori.bsky.social's GRETA EVER AFTER to be out in the world tomorrow! This one's for the aspiring young journalists who wish their lives were a little more magic, or anyone who loves a "relatable coming-of-age story interwoven with dark fairy-tale elements" (Kirkus).
August 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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lbschool.bsky.social
@melissadassori.bsky.social's GRETA EVER AFTER comes out in just a few weeks! Get to know this delightful, magical middle grade in @teachingbooks.bsky.social's Meet-the-Author recording: school.teachingbooks.net/book_reading...
TeachingBooks Book Reading | Greta Ever After
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July 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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melissadassori.bsky.social
Entertained myself in the car today listening to this good discussion of the gap in books for 12-15 year olds. #youngteenlit
youngteenlit.bsky.social It's Time for Young Teen Lit @youngteenlit.bsky.social · Jul 25
Learn how we started and where we're going with #youngteenlit on our podcast episode with @slupodcast.bsky.social! Librarians who work with ages 12-15 need to tune in for ideas on how to find and advocate for more Young Teen Lit.
#tlsky #edusky #skybrarian #skybrarians #mglit #yalit
July 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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melissadassori.bsky.social
Before my new book is out next month, check out my first, JR Silver Writes Her World. Buy a copy, tell me via my website where you got it and what address to use (US only, while supplies last), and I’ll send a bookmark and bookplate. #teachers, happy to send multiples to a school. #giveaway #mglit
Slide with cover of JR Silver (girl in front of city landscape holding notebook that blends into her face), with bookmark and bookplate with excepts of the cover image. Slide says Backlist Bookmark and Bookplate Giveaway!
July 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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malindalo.bsky.social
It’s a gorgeous day in Boston to support the freedom to read! #MassFreedomToRead @massaabb.bsky.social @authorsabb.bsky.social
July 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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melissadassori.bsky.social
If this angle catches your kids’ eye, check out my next #middlegrade book, GRETA EVER AFTER, which has its own storyline of journalistic misdeeds! #teachers Superman’s Other Secret Weakness? Journalism Ethics. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/a... @lbschool.bsky.social @unteragency.bsky.social
Superman’s Other Secret Weakness? Journalism Ethics.
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July 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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melissadassori.bsky.social
A lovely blurb from the wonderful Kate Albus for GRETA EVER AFTER, coming 8.19. This is a great week to support your favorite bookstore and preorder a copy. #teachers and #librarians, reach out for visits next year.
@lbschool.bsky.social
“Fairy tale magic is expertly sprinkled over the real-world magic (and mayhem) of middle school.” Blurb from Kate Albus, author of A Place to Hang the Mood and Nothing Else But Miracles.
July 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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melissadassori.bsky.social
Have a movie fan looking for a book? Check out GRETA EVER AFTER (8.19.25). Preorders are so helpful to authors! Links in my bio if you are inclined to add to your collection, or ask your library to order a copy. #middlegrade #mglit #booksky
Movie posters from Harriet the Spy, Into the Woods and Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret—if your reader likes those, check out my next novel, Greta Ever After (cover shows girl sitting on base of cuckoo clock).
July 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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heykellyjensen.bsky.social
Grab your FREE COPY of this toolkit to help guide the next generation of teen advocates, intellectual freedom champions, and library supporters.

Inspired by the guide? Don't forget to apply for funding to run your own teen advocacy program!

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July 1, 2025 at 1:17 PM