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Sarah Guillory
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Author, teacher, runner. Obsessed with dogs. A WISH WITH WINGS out May 2026!
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Sarah Guillory @sguillory262.bsky.social · Oct 18
Glory, who is trying to solve the mystery of why her mom left, finds the perfect partner in Gus, a nosy bloodhound. GUS AND GLORY releases May 2025, and you can preorder now! #kidlit 📚

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Gus and Glory|Hardcover
Perfect for fans of WISH and BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE comes award-winning author Sarah Guillory's latest middle grade tale of found family and the unshakable bond between a girl and her beloved dog.Twelv...
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sguillory262.bsky.social Sarah Guillory @sguillory262.bsky.social · 9h
Super excited to learn that GUS AND GLORY has been shortlisted for the Oklahoma Library Association’s Children's Sequoyah Book Award! 📚
SARAH GUILLORY A dog with a nose for trouble. A girl on a quest for the truth. GUS and GLORY Book cover showing girl walking a bloodhound.
February 17, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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Super excited to learn that GUS AND GLORY has been shortlisted for the Oklahoma Library Association’s Children's Sequoyah Book Award! 📚
SARAH GUILLORY A dog with a nose for trouble. A girl on a quest for the truth. GUS and GLORY Book cover showing girl walking a bloodhound.
February 17, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).
February 13, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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hi, welcome to the last 20 years of edtech
disabilitystor1.bsky.social Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 4d
A genuinely alarming piece in the NYT about how the developers, scientists and assorted techbros behind "AI companions"/"synthetic care" do not even know or understand the potential harms of the tech they're developing but they're too greedy to stop themselves from developing it.
“Confusion” doesn’t begin to describe our emerging predicament. Seventy-two percent of American teens have turned to A.I. for companionship. A.I. therapists, coaches and lovers are also on the rise. Yet few people realize that some of the frontline technologists building this new world seem deeply ambivalent about what they’re doing. They are so torn, in fact, that some privately admit they don’t plan to use A.I. intimacy tools. “Zero percent of my emotional needs are met by A.I.,” an executive who ran a team mitigating safety risks at a top lab told me. “I’m in it up to my eyeballs at work, and I’m careful.” Many others said the same thing: Even as they build A.I. tools, they hope they never feel the need to turn to machines for emotional support. As a researcher who develops cutting-edge capabilities for artificial emotion put it, “that would be a dark day.” Developers I spoke to said the same incentives that make bots irresistible can stand in the way of reasonable safeguards, making outright abstention the only sure way to stay safe. Some described feeling stuck between protecting users and raising profits: They support guardrails in theory, but don’t want to compromise the product experience in practice. It’s little wonder the protections that do get built can seem largely symbolic — you have to squint to see the fine-print notice that “ChatGPT can make mistakes” or that Character.AI is “not a real person.” “I’ve seen the way people operate in this space,” said one engineer who worked at a number of tech companies. “They’re here to make money. It’s a business at the end of the day.” But even if companies can curb serious dependence on A.I. companions — an open question — many of the developers I spoke with were troubled by even moderate use of these apps. That’s because people who manage to resist full-blown digital companions can still find themselves hooked on A.I.-mediated love. When machines draft texts, craft vows and tell people how to process their own emotions, every relationship turns into “a throuple,” a founder of a conversational A.I. business said. “We’re all polyamorous now. It’s you, me and the A.I.”
February 13, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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A WISH WITH WINGS was named a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection! Out May 2026!
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It takes courage to believe a wish can take flight. WINGS SARAH GUILLORY jlg GOLD STANDARD Book cover of young girl holding egg with whooping crane flying behind her.
February 10, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold
February 10, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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February 2026's new Middle Grade releases include a dungeons and dragons adventure - with dogs (DNDOGGOS: SPELLS LIKE TROUBLE), a interstellar graphic novel (SPACE CHASERS: TO THE MOON), and a laugh out loud disaster handbook (HOW TO SURVIVE AN APOCALYPSE). Learn more at tinyurl.com/4vusj6t8!
February 9, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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I miss watching the Olympics with Twitter.
February 8, 2026 at 3:22 AM
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AI did not arise out of a real human need. It arose out of billionaires’ agenda that this is what the world needs next so they can be even richer. Everything it does, humans do better, it’s better for them to do. What’s left is that it’s causing people mental crisis, polluting, plagiarizing.
February 6, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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I can’t believe we are at this stage of the AI discourse. The argument is basically untalented people deserve artistic success too.
February 6, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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I’m sorry but people talking about talent as an unfair quality that needs to be Harrison Bergeroned away by AI have exactly the same energy as people saying it’s unfair that attractive people have more people attracted to them and the government should legislate their right to a hot wife
February 6, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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The human drive to make art is so innate that if you leave someone alone in a room long enough they'll draw on the walls with their own waste.

And somehow, somehow! AI slop fans managed to kill that drive in themselves
February 6, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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EVERYBODY CAN MAKE ART IT CAME FREE WITH YOUR HUMAN SPIRIT
February 6, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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‘Finding Her Edge’ Renewed for Season 2 by Netflix │ Deadline
‘Finding Her Edge’ Renewed For Season 2 By Netflix
Netflix has ordered a second season of YA series Finding Her Edge, based on Jennifer Iacopelli's book.
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February 6, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10
a brown wire-haired pup stands on a wooden deck in a grassy yard. he looks at us with golden eyes and his right ear flipped inside out. he has a pipe-shaped stick in his mouth, giving him the appearance of a sophisticated and dapper gentleman. just give him a deerstalker cap and a cloak, and he'd give Sherlock Holmes a run for his money.
February 4, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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This whole thing where billionaires snap up media properties so they can run them into the ground to make it harder for people to call them and their cronies to account is extremely obvious and very tiresome. It also limits our access to largr information about culture and the world, also by design.
February 4, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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It’s our Oscars!

The world is very heavy and we all have much work to do, but for that very reason we also need joy. Getcha some!
100scopenotes.bsky.social Travis Jonker @100scopenotes.bsky.social · 22d
Happy Youth Media Awards day, everyone! Here's the link to the webcast (beginning at 11am ET) #ALAyma www.ala.unikron.com
T2026 | ALA
Youth Media Awards ALA Webcast by UNIKRON Inc.
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January 26, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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If you need some joy on your feed today, i HIGHLY recommend following the #ALAYMA tag when the awards start because it's going to be the biggest book nerds you know just celebrating the best reads for kids 😭❤️
ilovelibraries.bsky.social ilovelibraries.bsky.social @ilovelibraries.bsky.social · 23d
The annual announcement of the American Library Association’s Youth Media Awards is the biggest event of the year in the world of children’s publishing. Join us Monday, January 26, at 10:00 AM CT for the livestream.
📺at ala.unikron.com or on the ALA Facebook page.
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ALA Youth Media Awards
January 26, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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The Publishing for Minnesota auction launches this week to support groups providing legal aid, emergency assistance, food, and community resources to those in urgent need.
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Publishing for Minnesota
Silent auction 'Publishing for Minnesota' hosted online at 32auctions.
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January 26, 2026 at 1:57 AM
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Google searches are now absolutely worthless. Why do they insist on breaking things?
January 20, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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Looking for books to gift? My middle-grade novels feature fierce girls, small Louisiana towns, and complicated families. And dogs! #mglit
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Book cover of Nowhere Better Than Here showing a young girl sitting at the base of a cypress tree surrounded by water. Book cover of Gus and Glory with a large bloodhound and a young girl.
November 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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🌟A WISH WITH WINGS got an absolutely gorgeous starred review from Kirkus! I’m so excited to share Evan’s story—out May 19th!🌟
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A WISH WITH WINGS | Kirkus Reviews
Twelve-year-old Evan faces a moral dilemma: Reveal what she knows and hurt others or stay silent and hurt herself.
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January 19, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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🌟A WISH WITH WINGS got an absolutely gorgeous starred review from Kirkus! I’m so excited to share Evan’s story—out May 19th!🌟
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A WISH WITH WINGS | Kirkus Reviews
Twelve-year-old Evan faces a moral dilemma: Reveal what she knows and hurt others or stay silent and hurt herself.
www.kirkusreviews.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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Books don't tell readers who they personally are or who they are supposed to be. They do show readers a variety of characters. Implicit in that is this: "Here are some ways of being." Kids books aren't altering your kid to be someone new. They are simply showing them parts of humanity.
January 10, 2026 at 7:00 AM