title: Omar Risingauthor: Aisha Saeeddate: Nancy Paulsen Books; February 2022main characters: Omar Alimiddle grade realistic fiction Aisha Saeed is an award-winning author. She is also a former second grade teacher, education attorney, and a founding member of the nonprofit We Need Diverse Books. Aisha most often writes books based in her Pakistani American heritage. Omar… Read More book review: Omar Rising

Educating pre-service librarians has me paying even more attention to book challenges. While I’ve been able to inform them of what the challenges, new legislation, and self-censorship look like, I have struggled to know how to prepare them should they ever have to face such a situation. I’ve been looking around and have found resources… Read More SundayMorningReads

title: I’ll Be the Oneauthor: Lyla Leedate: Katherine Tegen Books; 2020main character: SHIN Haneul (Skye)YA romcom Lyla Lee was born in South Korea and moved to the US. She soon developed passions for both reading and writing. Le debuted in youth literature with the Mindy Kim chapter book series. Her stories are based in her… Read More book review: I’ll Be the One

I was doing so good, getting these out much earlier in the month. Well, better late than never! This is a quite a full list! I hope you’ll let me know what I’m missing. In the meantime, I’m reading I’ll Be the One by Lyla Lee, I’ve listed around 80 books on the Goodread challenge… Read More March Releases