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Jan 27, 2024 | 
sonderbooks.com | Ari Tison
Review posted January 27, 2024. Farrar Straus Giroux, 2023. 312 pages. Review written May 14, 2023, from my own copy, sent from the publisher. Starred Review 2024 Walter Dean Myers Award Young Adult Winner 2024 Pura Belpré Award Young Adult Author Winner 2024 William C.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
bookriot.com | Byron Graves |Natasha Donovan |Jade Adia |Ari Tison
The winners of this year’s American Library Association’s Youth Media Awards have been announced. These awards, often colloquially referred to as the Oscars of children’s literature, honor the best books published for young people in the prior year.
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Jun 14, 2023 | 
thestate.com | Ari Tison
NONFICTION: Bill Eville shares moving vignettes of striving to be a good husband, stay-at-home-dad and writer. "Washed Ashore: Family, Fatherhood, and Finding Home on Martha's Vineyard" by Bill Eville; Godine (264 pages, $26.95)———Reading Bill Eville's "Washed Ashore" has reassured me that my own experience of being a stay-at-home-dad — all the mixed-up feelings, frustrations and screaming matches — were par for the course.
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Jun 14, 2023 | 
thestate.com | Sammy Harkham |Ari Tison
Grindhouse wasn't a movie genre afflicted by subtlety. The plots celebrated mayhem: chain-saw-wielding maniacs, murderous supernatural forces or a young woman on a revenge killing spree. There was fake blood (gallons of it), as well as gratuitous female nudity (cue the bouncing bosoms).
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Jun 14, 2023 | 
thestate.com | Ari Tison
I am aware that adaptations have been with us for centuries and that Shakespeare borrowed his best plots. But that doesn't stop this book lover from being suspicious when movies and plays glom onto my favorite titles.
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Jun 14, 2023 | 
thestate.com | Ari Tison
Let’s try something new this summer. Rather than burdening yourself with postcard dreams of a beach towel and a book, instead of picturing yourself inside a portrait of lazy mornings with a hammock and a Stephen King, toss out the bougie old summer reading mirage. Has it ever been attainable for more than an hour or two? Replace it — as I do, to the detriment of family, TV and sleep — with a small project. But not a project project. More like a personal dare.
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Jun 14, 2023 | 
thestate.com | Ari Tison
Julie Sullivan's debut novel, "The World is Full of Champions," takes a critical look at the chasm that exists between a fictional family from the Black elite in Philadelphia and their working-class maid and her family. Part-history, part saga, part Cain and Abel, and part romance novel, "Champions" tells a story that spans three decades of Georgia Smythe's life. Georgia's mother works as a maid for the Whitmans, a judge and his wife who live in the Philadelphia suburbs.
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Jun 14, 2023 | 
modbee.com | Ari Tison
CHICAGO -- The air-conditioned tour bus with tinted windows stopped outside Bright Star Baptist Church in Bronzeville and out came several dozen congregants from the Anshe Emet Synagogue of Lakeview. They moved slowly up the sidewalk and concrete steps of the church. Before anyone reached the doors, welcomes erupted, like the clamor from a surprise party. “I assume you’re here for Jonathan Eig?” a Bright Star parishioner asked.
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Jun 14, 2023 | 
thederrick.com | Ari Tison
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Apr 12, 2023 | 
diverseverse.com | Ari Tison
HOW TO BUILD A POEM IN FOUR EASY STEPS One Lesson Plan for Teachers & Educators to Use for POETRY MONTH Ages 9-17 This lesson can be paired with any nearly any poem. You can read a chosen poem together and talk about what memories the poem might be holding, what sensory details were included, and what statements the poet is making in the poem itself.
