Michael Long

1 month ago | publishersweekly.com | Brian Floca |Michael Long |Cass Biehn |Caroline O'Donoghue

Caroline O’Donoghue. Walker US, $19.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-5362-2881-6Teenage Margo is en route to boarding school in Dublin when her otherwise empty train stops inside a tunnel, triggering a panic attack. When Margo recovers, she notices that the train’s trappings have changed and she’s been joined by passenger Moon, who has never heard of Ireland. Confused and terrified, Margo disembarks with Moon in New Davia—one of several worlds connected by a strictly regulated railroad.

1 month ago | publishersweekly.com | Brian Floca |Michael Long |Caroline O'Donoghue |Cass Biehn

Brian Floca, illus. by Sydney Smith. Holiday House/Porter, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8234-5647-5The wind blows hard, and two children—one taller, one smaller—pull on their boots.

Jun 7, 2024 | slj.com | Ann Bausum |Chance Lee Joyner |Amira Rose |Michael Long

by (text) & illus. by Solomon Hughes . Apr. 2024. 32p. Tr $18.99. ISBN 9781478886426. COPY ISBN Gr 4 Up–This lyrical telling of Martin Luther King Jr.’s final days weaves three different texts together: the story of his trip to Memphis told by an omniscient narrator, King’s “Mountaintop” speech delivered the day before he was assassinated, and a gospel song by Thomas A. Dorsey that King requested before he was shot.

May 2, 2024 | gwhatchet.com | Michael Long

Michael Long is an associate professor of prevention and community health at the Milken Institute of Public Health. University leaders would be wrong to conflate physical safety with order, compliance, and optics at the cost of protest. Individuals who protest are not allowed to protest because of their right to free expression. Instead, the natural duty to justice creates a responsibility to protest, a duty that obliges them to give GW community members their due. But what are we due?