Barbara Dee
@barbaradee.bsky.social
Award-winning author of middle grade novels like TEAR THIS DOWN, UNSTUCK, MAYBE HE JUST LIKES YOU, and VIOLETS ARE BLUE.
So excited for this screening of the important documentary, THE LIBRARIANS, and for our discussion!
November 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
So excited for this screening of the important documentary, THE LIBRARIANS, and for our discussion!
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New: USING FICTION TO BUILD CROSS-CONTENT KNOWLEDGE.
Fiction is a powerful tool to build foundational knowledge across subject areas –deepening understanding and sparking curiosity, says teacher leader Kasey Short. #edusky @shortissweet.bsky.social #iteachEnglish
www.middleweb.com/52811/using-...
Fiction is a powerful tool to build foundational knowledge across subject areas –deepening understanding and sparking curiosity, says teacher leader Kasey Short. #edusky @shortissweet.bsky.social #iteachEnglish
www.middleweb.com/52811/using-...
Fiction Builds Background Knowledge Across the Curriculum
Fiction is a powerful tool to build foundational knowledge across subject areas–deepening understanding and sparking curiosity–says teacher leader Kasey Short.
www.middleweb.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
New: USING FICTION TO BUILD CROSS-CONTENT KNOWLEDGE.
Fiction is a powerful tool to build foundational knowledge across subject areas –deepening understanding and sparking curiosity, says teacher leader Kasey Short. #edusky @shortissweet.bsky.social #iteachEnglish
www.middleweb.com/52811/using-...
Fiction is a powerful tool to build foundational knowledge across subject areas –deepening understanding and sparking curiosity, says teacher leader Kasey Short. #edusky @shortissweet.bsky.social #iteachEnglish
www.middleweb.com/52811/using-...
At our local No Kings demonstration, I chatted with a woman who’d brought her cute dog. A few minutes later she and her brother were introduced to the crowd of 1500 as Woody Guthrie’s grandkids, and they led us all in a heartfelt rendition of This Land is Your Land.
October 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
At our local No Kings demonstration, I chatted with a woman who’d brought her cute dog. A few minutes later she and her brother were introduced to the crowd of 1500 as Woody Guthrie’s grandkids, and they led us all in a heartfelt rendition of This Land is Your Land.
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
Next week’s New Yorker cover
September 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Next week’s New Yorker cover
Excited to be part of this Right to Read Rally—organized by KIDS!!
September 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Excited to be part of this Right to Read Rally—organized by KIDS!!
Somehow I missed that Tuesday, August 26 was Women’s Equality Day—but The Center for Children’s Books didn’t. Here are 4 books they recommend for the occasion. Honored that TEAR THIS DOWN is one of them.
August 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Somehow I missed that Tuesday, August 26 was Women’s Equality Day—but The Center for Children’s Books didn’t. Here are 4 books they recommend for the occasion. Honored that TEAR THIS DOWN is one of them.
Hope to see you there on Sept 27!
August 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Hope to see you there on Sept 27!
Great to see MAYBE HE JUST LIKES YOU here! Love the audiobook performance.
www.audible.com/blog/article...
www.audible.com/blog/article...
The best back-to-school audiobooks for kids in 2025
Class is back in session, and we're marking the occasion with educational, encouraging, and fun new recommendations.
www.audible.com
August 16, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Great to see MAYBE HE JUST LIKES YOU here! Love the audiobook performance.
www.audible.com/blog/article...
www.audible.com/blog/article...
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“It’s a complete knockout. There’s not a single issue that the court did not side with the plaintiffs on.”
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/08/13/j...
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/08/13/j...
Judge strikes down parts of a Florida law used to ban school library books
The 2023 law prompted educators to pull classic literature, popular novels and even children’s picture books from school shelves.
www.orlandosentinel.com
August 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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After seeing all the wrong info on Google about my age (including the charming fact that I passed in 2023), I asked it a few more questions. All these answers were bizarrely off—but I’d sure like to meet this crocheting, kayaking Floridian who spent 10 years in Costa Rica!
July 30, 2025 at 12:18 PM
After seeing all the wrong info on Google about my age (including the charming fact that I passed in 2023), I asked it a few more questions. All these answers were bizarrely off—but I’d sure like to meet this crocheting, kayaking Floridian who spent 10 years in Costa Rica!
When a reader’s mom told me her kid looked up my age online—and was way off the mark—I checked out what Google was saying.
Wrong wrong wrong wrong.
Wrong wrong wrong wrong.
July 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
When a reader’s mom told me her kid looked up my age online—and was way off the mark—I checked out what Google was saying.
Wrong wrong wrong wrong.
Wrong wrong wrong wrong.
Big happy day for our rescue Junie! She finally completed heartworm treatment and has been cleared to go on walks (but gradually). Two months of house arrest are over!
July 17, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Big happy day for our rescue Junie! She finally completed heartworm treatment and has been cleared to go on walks (but gradually). Two months of house arrest are over!
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Such big news I'm RT'ing again to say this is huge news.
VICTORY: Governor Ayotte just vetoed a bill that would have created avenues to ban books in New Hampshire schools. Freedom of expression includes being able to read whatever we want, whenever we want, full stop. #nhpolitics
July 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Such big news I'm RT'ing again to say this is huge news.
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Future banned book for @velshibbc.bsky.social. Really good book about seventh-grader Freya who wants the statue removed of Benjamin Wellington and replaced with suffragette Olivia Padgett instead after some shocking truths come to light while doing a research project. Very timely!
July 6, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Future banned book for @velshibbc.bsky.social. Really good book about seventh-grader Freya who wants the statue removed of Benjamin Wellington and replaced with suffragette Olivia Padgett instead after some shocking truths come to light while doing a research project. Very timely!
TEAR THIS DOWN is one of ten #kidlit books recommended for summer reading by the National Trust for Historic Preservation !! savingplaces.org/stories/summ...
Summer Reading for the Future Preservationist in Your Life | National Trust for Historic Preservation
Ten books about growing up, belonging, and the power of historic preservation for kids of all ages.
savingplaces.org
June 12, 2025 at 10:45 AM
TEAR THIS DOWN is one of ten #kidlit books recommended for summer reading by the National Trust for Historic Preservation !! savingplaces.org/stories/summ...
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Public pressure works! Keep it going.
May 25, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Public pressure works! Keep it going.
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Some random Virgil for you: "Be warned; learn ye to be just and not to slight the gods! This one sold his country for gold & fastened on her a tyrant lord; he made and unmade laws for a bribe. Had I a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, and voice of iron, I could not sum up all the forms of crime.’"
May 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Some random Virgil for you: "Be warned; learn ye to be just and not to slight the gods! This one sold his country for gold & fastened on her a tyrant lord; he made and unmade laws for a bribe. Had I a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, and voice of iron, I could not sum up all the forms of crime.’"
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Worth signing up to be notified when the library gets a book you want to read. Thrilled to see the New York Public Library now has copies of @barbaradee.bsky.social’s latest and can’t wait to read.
May 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Worth signing up to be notified when the library gets a book you want to read. Thrilled to see the New York Public Library now has copies of @barbaradee.bsky.social’s latest and can’t wait to read.
