Ayanna
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America in a nutshell.
July 21, 2025 at 3:56 AM
America in a nutshell.
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Over the last several years, we’ve seen climate change and conservation as big themes, and both appear in this year’s starred reviews as well.
www.slj.com/story/newsfe...
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July 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Over the last several years, we’ve seen climate change and conservation as big themes, and both appear in this year’s starred reviews as well.
www.slj.com/story/newsfe...
www.slj.com/story/newsfe...
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3 Titles About Tweens Living with Incarcerated Parents | Middle Grade Spotlight
3 Titles About Tweens Living with Incarcerated Parents | Middle Grade Spotlight
These three titles feature tweens with parents navigating incarceration and detention in the United States.
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July 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
3 Titles About Tweens Living with Incarcerated Parents | Middle Grade Spotlight
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little library gallows humor for ya :'D
July 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
little library gallows humor for ya :'D
“More young, angry women” and people of all kinds. Anger is a gift.
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Greta Thunberg being released...
the internetWorld is gunna explode on this one
c'mon lets make this interview statement Famous!!
Greta Thunberg being released...
the internetWorld is gunna explode on this one
c'mon lets make this interview statement Famous!!
June 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
“More young, angry women” and people of all kinds. Anger is a gift.
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Without comment. Keep hammering this.
June 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Without comment. Keep hammering this.
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From May/June #HBMag Special Issue: Perception and Reality "#HBRealityReimagined: Escapist Fantasies Are Political" by Jordan Ifueko: "The comfort one derives from any fantasy is deeply political." www.hbook.com/story/realit...
Reality Reimagined: Escapist Fantasies Are Political
From the May/June 2025 special issue of The Horn Book Magazine: Perception and Reality.
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June 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
From May/June #HBMag Special Issue: Perception and Reality "#HBRealityReimagined: Escapist Fantasies Are Political" by Jordan Ifueko: "The comfort one derives from any fantasy is deeply political." www.hbook.com/story/realit...
My whole summer plan
June 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
My whole summer plan
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Happy Monday!
June 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Happy Monday!
“…the Court conflates the marketplace with the common good. It reveals an indifference to the lived reality of millions of Americans for whom public libraries are their only or primary means of access to books.”
"In this ruling, a majority of the Fifth Circuit has embraced a doctrine that not only permits but also constitutionalizes the removal of books from public libraries by government officials for ideological reasons," reads the statement from EveryLibrary.
This is Government Censorship in its Plainest Form, States EveryLibrary
EveryLibrary responds to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals' Little v. Llano County decision, which will allow the government to remove or restrict access to books from public library shelves.
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June 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
“…the Court conflates the marketplace with the common good. It reveals an indifference to the lived reality of millions of Americans for whom public libraries are their only or primary means of access to books.”
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“We close off too much of our world to kids and teens, especially those whose families struggle financially. But every young reader is welcome at their local school and public libraries.
—Cynthia Leitich Smith
#ReasonstoLoveLibraries
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—Cynthia Leitich Smith
#ReasonstoLoveLibraries
bit.ly/3RGM52r
June 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
“We close off too much of our world to kids and teens, especially those whose families struggle financially. But every young reader is welcome at their local school and public libraries.
—Cynthia Leitich Smith
#ReasonstoLoveLibraries
bit.ly/3RGM52r
—Cynthia Leitich Smith
#ReasonstoLoveLibraries
bit.ly/3RGM52r
Please share with your network! We need sponsors and donors to keep this effort going. We need libraries, independent bookstores, authors, librarian, books! Never stop supporting intellectual freedom. liberationislit.com/pages/libera...
March 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Please share with your network! We need sponsors and donors to keep this effort going. We need libraries, independent bookstores, authors, librarian, books! Never stop supporting intellectual freedom. liberationislit.com/pages/libera...
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🤔Did you know that Safe Passage is the March 2025 young adult selection for Read Across America? And what better time to read it than Read Across America Week!
📚Learn more about Safe Passage & find free resources that will help you use this title in the classroom: www.nea.org/professional-exc...
📚Learn more about Safe Passage & find free resources that will help you use this title in the classroom: www.nea.org/professional-exc...
March 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
🤔Did you know that Safe Passage is the March 2025 young adult selection for Read Across America? And what better time to read it than Read Across America Week!
📚Learn more about Safe Passage & find free resources that will help you use this title in the classroom: www.nea.org/professional-exc...
📚Learn more about Safe Passage & find free resources that will help you use this title in the classroom: www.nea.org/professional-exc...
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I will *not* be watching the State of the Union tomorrow evening. Nothing enrages Trump more than us tuning him out. Instead, I will be viewing and contributing to the State of the People, a 24-hour livestream of counter-programming beginning this evening. Register at stateofthepeople.media.
March 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I will *not* be watching the State of the Union tomorrow evening. Nothing enrages Trump more than us tuning him out. Instead, I will be viewing and contributing to the State of the People, a 24-hour livestream of counter-programming beginning this evening. Register at stateofthepeople.media.
📣 I started a book club for 14-18 year olds in Columbia, SC and Liberation is Lit is hosting the author next Tuesday!
liberationislit.com/pages/libera...
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Liberated YA Book Club
Welcome to the Liberated YA Book Club—a space for readers ages 14-18 to explore young adult fiction that challenges conventions, sparks meaningful conversations, and inspires self-discovery. We meet q...
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January 27, 2025 at 1:08 AM
📣 I started a book club for 14-18 year olds in Columbia, SC and Liberation is Lit is hosting the author next Tuesday!
liberationislit.com/pages/libera...
liberationislit.com/pages/libera...