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1 week ago | slj.com | Trisha Tobias |a Rec |Amanda MacGregor |Kara Yorio

In this Q&A series, SLJ poses five questions and a request for a book recommendation to a debut YA author. Adina King shares about The House No One Sees in this latest installment. 1. Congrats on your YA debut! How would you describe your book to readers? Thank you! The House No One Sees is a contemporary YA with surrealist elements written in alternating prose and verse. It is the story of Penelope Ross, a girl who must walk through her past to save her present.

2 weeks ago | slj.com | Amanda MacGregor |Kara Yorio |Karen Jensen

In this Q&A series, SLJ poses five questions and a request for a book recommendation to a debut YA author. Trisha Tobias shares about Honeysuckle and Bone in this latest installment. In this Q&A series, SLJ poses five questions and a request for a book recommendation to a debut YA author. Trisha Tobias shares about Honeysuckle and Bone in this latest installment. 1. Congrats on your YA debut! How would you describe your book to readers?

4 weeks ago | slj.com | Kara Yorio |Andrew Bauld

We Need Diverse Books will celebrate the first We Need Diverse Books Day on April 3; senators call on acting director of IMLS to continue funding programs as directed by Congress; Suzanne Collins talks philosophy and Sunrise on the Reaping; Eric Carle Honors honorees announced; and more. We Need Diverse Books Day is April 3We Need Diverse Books (WNDB) is launching the inaugural We Need Diverse Books Day on Thursday, April 3.

1 month ago | slj.com | Kara Yorio |Andrew Bauld

When President Trump signed the expected executive order to shut down the Department of Education, “Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities,” lawsuits from teachers unions, public school districts, and others followed to challenge the illegal attempt to shut down the department without an act of Congress. But the unions that filed those suits and the lawyers representing them are not the only ones speaking out and fighting the proposed cuts and changes.

1 month ago | slj.com | Brigid Alverson |Kara Yorio |Andrew Bauld

Comics fans gathered for a convention just before COVID-19 struck, shutting down in-person events and sparking a burst of popularity for the format. Photo Courtsey by Brigid Alverson In 2020, during the last weekend of February, 90,000 comics creators, industry figures, and fans flocked to McCormick Place in Chicago for the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2).