Banned Books Week is planned for 1-7 October. While you’re looking to your local library and/or bookstore for activities, be sure to get your swag from We Need Diverse Book’s Bonfire site. These are just a fe of the many items available.

I couldn’t even guess what percentage of middle grade and young adult books use schools as their setting, but I’m sure it’s a very high number. It’s somewhat surprising that schools and schooling is just now being addressed in YA books. Here, we have spaces where young people negotiate their identities not only with each… Read More Booklist: Educated & Oppressed

I recently posted about a decision by the Coretta Scott King (CSK) Executive Board to limit eligibility for the CKS Awards to those African Americans who are descended from people who were enslaved in the United States. A petition was delivered to rebuke this decision by a few controlling members. Then what? I received some… Read More CKS FollowUp

Banned Books Week is an annual event in the United States celebrating the freedom to read. Banned Books Week will be held October 1 – 7, 2023. Banned Books Week began in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries. During the week, events are… Read More Banned Books Week is Coming

5 The Cursed Moon by Angela Cervantes. Scholastic PressDoña Quiote: Rise of the Knight by Rey Terciero, illus, by Monica M. Magaña. Henry Holt & Co.Everyone’s Thinking It by Aleema Omotoni. Balzer+BrayFarewell Cuba, Mi Isla by Alexandra Diaz. Simona n Schuster/Paula Wiseman BooksInto the Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix by Cherie Dimaline. Feiwel and FriendsMascot by Charles Waters and Traci Sorell. CharlsbridgeNightmare King by Daka Hermon. Scholastic PressSaving… Read More September Releases