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Question of the Day–Are the Books YA or Adult? Or Both?

Posted on23 June, 202122 June, 2021

Recently, Malinda Lo posted on Twitter and Instagram that her most recent book, Last Night at the Telegraph Club has been published in the U.S. and marketed as YA, but […] Read More

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Reading Beyond the U.S.

Posted on9 June, 20218 June, 2021

Earlier this year I saw a thought-provoking video from a BookTuber named Saajid considering the question, “Is the book community American-centric?” I’ve been pondering things Saajid mentioned in the video […] Read More

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Decolonize Your Mind & Disrupt the Text

Posted on22 July, 202021 July, 2020

Yesterday an old tweet came across my timeline on Facebook and said this “Academia’s obsession with preserving the white man’s ‘classic’ literature within secondary schools’s curriculum is the reason why […] Read More

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A Few Days in Baltimore: NCTE 2019

Posted on27 November, 2019

Last year was my first NCTE annual conference and I was completely overwhelmed. Trying to balance sessions with visiting the exhibit hall and all the author signings, whew! This year, […] Read More

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Open Letter to Writers

Posted on25 October, 20175 April, 2018

I’ve not commented, though have retweeted profound threads, on the on-going discussion that resulted from the removal of American Heart’s starred review from Kirkus. I saw the FB post the […] Read More

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Banned Books Week: Sex in YA

Posted on27 September, 201727 September, 2017

It’s Banned Books week and to celebrate I thought I’d talk about a subject that many books are banned for – sex! Yes, that three letter word that often throws […] Read More

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