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May 22, 2024 | 
uknow.uky.edu | Mariama Lockington
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 22, 2024) — In March, 35 Central Kentucky school spelling bee champions in first through eighth grade took the stage to compete in the inaugural Big Blue Bee. The Big Blue Bee — a partnership between Scripps National Spelling Bee and the University of Kentucky College of Education — took place at the Lyric Theatre & Cultural Arts Center in downtown Lexington, and drew an excited crowd of family members, teachers and supporters to cheer students on.
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May 23, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Mariama Lockington
By Mariama J. Lockington | Mariama J. Lockington is an educator and the author of the middle grade novels For Black Girls Like Me and In the Key of Us. She holds a master’s degree in education from Lesley University and a master’s of Fine Arts in Poetry from San Francisco State University.
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May 23, 2023 | 
loyaltybookstores.com | Shannon Gibney |Nicole S. Chung |Mariama Lockington |Meredith Ireland
Loyalty is thrilled to virtually welcome Nicole Chung, Susan Harness, Mariama Lockington, Mark Oshiro, and Lisa Wool-rim Sjöblom to celebrate the release day of When We Become Ours!! We are so excited to be able to celebrate such a special book with so many of its wonderful contributors. This event will be held digitally via Crowdcast and is free to attend. Click here to register for the event.
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Mar 9, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Helen Yoon |Dave Eggers |Kate Glasheen |Mariama Lockington
Helen Yoon. Candlewick, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5362-2625-6How can one find something that one can’t sense? For this picture book’s narrator, the trouble begins when the invisible dinosaur of the title “had gotten REALLY dirty,” requiring a “big, BIG bath.” But mud made the dinosaur visible, and now that it’s clean, the animal is the very definition of whereabouts unknown.
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Mar 9, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Dave Eggers |Kate Glasheen |Mariama Lockington |Jerry Craft
Kate Glasheen. Holiday House, $22.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8234-5071-8; $14.99 paper ISBN 978-0-8234-5488-4In the 1980s, high schooler Claire doesn’t know exactly who they are or where they fit in their Irish Catholic family and the surrounding Troy, N.Y., community (“Having a girlfriend isn’t the part that feels the most wrong. It’s the being a girl part”).
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Mar 9, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Jon Agee |Dave Eggers |Kate Glasheen |Mariama Lockington
Jon Agee. Rocky Pond, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-593-53137-2In this comic dialogue from Agee (Otto: A Palindrama), a child plotting to stay outside “all day long” invites a parent to engage in pretend play—as a tree. In response to young Madeleine’s inducement to “pretend your arms are branches... and then stand in one place. Like this,” Dad obediently spreads his arms wide, “but only for a minute.” A page turn later, Agee’s signature illustrations show a small gray owl landing on Dad’s shoulder.
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Mar 9, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Mariama Lockington |Dave Eggers |Kate Glasheen |Jerry Craft
Black queer teen Sadie Dixon confronts police brutality while contending with her own mental health challenges in this lyrically written verse novel by Lockington (For Black Girls Like Me). When Sadie’s girlfriend dumps her, Sadie just barely manages to wrangle her emerging panic attack until, moments later, both teens witness an act of violent racial discrimination on the streets of their Oakland, Calif., hometown.
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Mar 9, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Rex Ogle |Dave Eggers |Kate Glasheen |Mariama Lockington
Ogle (Abuela, Don’t Forget Me) recounts his tumultuous sixth grade year in this layered and moving graphic novel memoir. Not only does he seem to be the only kid who hasn’t experienced a growth spurt, but his best friend renounced their shared love of comics to impress popular bully Victor, and days suffering from splitting headaches result in the discovery that he needs glasses.
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Mar 9, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Dave Eggers |Kate Glasheen |Mariama Lockington |Jerry Craft
David Farr. Simon & Schuster, $18.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-6659-2257-9Two siblings are tasked with keeping a magical text out of a despotic ruler’s hands in this bustling children’s debut, a duology opener, from playwright and screenwriter Farr. Following the invasion of Krasnia, the militarized New World Order led by Charles Malstain results quickly in censorship and regulation—especially of children.
