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"[A]n enlightening look at how understanding and celebrating gender diversity has been a long-held belief for many people and cultures throughout history." Thank you Teen Librarian Toolbox for this review of THE GENDER BINARY IS A BIG LIE by Lee Wind!

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Book Review: The Gender Binary Is a Big Lie: Infinite Identities around the World by Lee Wind Overall, an enlightening look at how understanding and celebrating gender diversity has been a long-held belief for many people and cultures throughout history.

Are you ready for August reading? Check out the 20 Best August Books for Young Readers according to Kirkus Reviews with amazing titles like THE GENDER BINARY IS A BIG LIE by Lee Wind.

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20 Best August Books for Young Readers | Kirkus Reviews Weekly book lists of exciting new releases, bestsellers, classics, and more. The lists are curated by the editors of Kirkus Reviews.

As Eating Disorders Awareness Week comes to a close, we want to leave readers with hope and more resources for the future. Eating Disorder Hope ™ is an online community that offers education, support, and inspiration for those struggling with eating disorders and their families. Learn more on their website: https://okt.to/g5QIdc

Sharing hopeful stories is a crucial part of supporting young adults. Boyle Cromption shares her personal story of recovery and self-love in her YA memoir-in-verse THE DENIM DIAIRES.

The ANAD is the leading nonprofit in the U.S. that provides free, peer support services to anyone struggling with an eating disorder. Learn more about their programs and resources here: https://okt.to/LI0N54

Eating Disorders Awareness Week is now underway. Provide support for young adult readers with THE DENIM DIARIES by Laurie Boyle Crompton who relays her journey of self-acceptance and recovery in vivid free verse.

Next Monday marks the start of Eating Disorders Awareness Week (Feb 26th-March 3rd). This annual campaign seeks "to educate the public about eating disorders and to engage in efforts to provide hope and to engage support for individuals and families affected by eating disorders." Learn how to raise awareness from the National Eating Disorders Association website:
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In THE DENIM DIARIES: A MEMOIR, Laurie Boyle Crompton shares her own powerful story of disordered eating and recovery through moving free verse. Find camaraderie on every page through a journey of self-acceptance. https://okt.to/B0uUPK

We are disappointed and appalled to see Q***R included in this book burning. Q***R was on the ALA Rainbow List and was nominated for YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults and YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers. School Library Journal, a professional review source, said the book "gives teens the information needed to navigate their world, but, more important, it also helps them understand and accept themselves."

Every reader deserves to see themselves in books. We support the right to read!
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Congratulations to authors Lesley Younge and Monica R Edinger! NEARER MY FREEDOM is a 2024 Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults finalist. All our gratitude to YALSA and the American Library Association for this honor and for sharing Olaudah Equiano's story!



Read all about the ALA Youth Media Awards our press release: https://lernerbooks.com/headlines/981

Don't forget to register for tomorrow's School Library Journal webcast with five Nonfiction Award Finalists! Dashka Slater, Ariel Aberg-Riger, Thien Pham, Luma Mufleh, and Lesley Younge will reveal the inspiration for these amazing titles, the story behind their research, and more at 2PM ET.
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YALSA Nonfiction Awards Finalists in Conversation with SLJ JoinSchool Library Journalfor a lively conversation featuring the 2024 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award finalists. Learn a bit about the inspiration behind these fantastic titles, hear from the authors about their research and storytelling processes.

With only a few weeks away, five Nonfiction Award Finalists are ready to talk about their amazing titles, their research process, and more!

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YALSA Nonfiction Awards Finalists in Conversation with SLJ Thursday, January 18, 2024 at 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time.

Start your new year with the information you need to know. Author Caitlin Donohue shares her experiences touring with her new YA nonfiction W**D on the Teen Librarian Toolbox.
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The W**d Tour – A Diary of Travels, a guest post by Caitlin Donohue For many teens and their parents—OK, for nearly all of us—navigating the fear and ignorance around drugs to talk about our experiences with them can be excruciating. That’s part of the reason why I wrote my book W**d: Cannabis Culture in the Americas.

We're over the moon that NEARER MY FREEDOM has been selected as a YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults finalist. Congratulations authors Monica Edinger and Lesley Younge!

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YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults YALSA launched a Teen Book Finder Database, a one-stop shop for finding YALSA's selected lists and award winners. Search this free resource by award, list name, year, author, genre and more, as well as print customizable lists. This replaces the individual award and list web pages on YALSA’s site ...

Today on the Lerner blog, author Boyle Crompton joins us to discuss her new release THE DENIM DIARIES! Read on to discover the journey of this memoir-in-verse, her research process, and more.
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The Denim Diaries: An Author Interview with Laurie Boyle Crompton Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s was full of hilarity and heartbreak, and The Denim Diaries: A Memoir is here to share it all with you. From relationships and makeup to parental divorce and disord…

BRAIDING SWEETGRASS FOR YOUNG ADULTS is an American Booksellers Association bestseller! Thank you Monique Gray Smith, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Nicole Neidhardt for creating such a beautiful masterpiece.
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The Year-To-Date 2023 Indie Bestsellers List Here is the Year-To-Date 2023 Indie Bestseller List, based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the period of January 1, 2023 to November 12, 2023.

BRAIDING SWEETGRASS FOR YOUNG ADULTS has been selected for the Door County Reads 2024! The Door County community will come together and read the book for events from January 20th-February 20th.
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Book Announced for Door County Reads 2024 - Door County Pulse This year’s book selection for Door County Reads 2024 is Braiding Sweetgrass For Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer, adapted by Monique Gray Smith and illustrated by Nicole Neidhardt.  Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults highl...

Need the perfect gift for your readers? Check out the Gift Guide from Literaticast including amazing titles like THE BEASTS IN YOUR BRAIN by Katherine Speller!

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62: The Great Big Holiday Gift Guide, 2023 Edition Literary Agent Jennifer Laughran and her friends dish about the world of Children's Publishing. Become a Patron! Patreon donations go directly to paying the fees to run the podcast. Any amount over...

We all need more poetry in our lives. National Council of Teachers of English selected NEARER MY FREEDOM by Lesley Younge and Monica Edinger as a 2024 Notable Verse Novel! Take a look at more excellent poetry check out the full list here: https://okt.to/x21MKR

Excellence in Poetry for Children Georgia Heard received her M.F.A. in poetry from Columbia University. She is a founding member of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, where she offered professional development in writing to hundreds of teachers and taught writing in classrooms and schools in the New York City area for...

Congratulations authors Lesley Younge and Monica Edinger! NEARER MY FREEDOM has been selected as a 2023 Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year!
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Shelf Awareness for Readers for Tuesday, November 21, 2023 This year has delivered some incredible reading material for children and teens. Our 2023 Best Children's and YA Books encompass titles of varying genres across age ranges--including read-alouds, early chapter books, poetic middle-grade, and introspective nonfiction for young adults. Beautifully ill...

From relationships and makeup to parental divorce and disordered eating, THE DENIM DIARIES recounts the humor and heartbreak of author Laurie Boyle Crompton coming of age in rural Pennsylvania and New York City during the 1970s and 1980s. Read this free verse account of one woman's journey to self-acceptance on NetGalley now: https://okt.to/8kjqAC

Go fight censorship and learn some q***r history!
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To hide our history is to deny our existence: Kids must learn what q***r folks have given the world Q***r people gave us computers, the Mona Lisa, and "Where the Wild Things Are." LGBTQ+ youth deserve to see that they aren't alone...

Do you have cannabis curious readers? Lauren Yoshiko's newsletter, Sticky Bits, suggests a few titles that might satisfy including W**D by Caitlin Donohue!
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Fungi play many roles in the natural world! Learn more about these amazing organisms with these books including BRAIDING SWEETGRASS FOR YOUNG ADULTS!
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You Can’t Spell Fungi Without Fun: Books to Read About Marvelous Mycelia and More Foray into fungi with these books about all things mushrooms for children, teens, and adults.

MEN OF THE 65TH author Talia Aikens Nunez Children's Writer shares the story of the Borinqueneers of the Korean War WTNH News 8.
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Nyberg – Book talks about Army’s first Latino regiment in the Korean War NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — It was 10 years ago when Talia Aikens-Nuñez was talking to her husband’s grandfather and noticed a military medal. “And I asked, ‘What is that?& #82…

I COULD NOT DO OTHERWISE has won an Honorable Mention for the Grateful American Book Prize! Congratulations to author Sara Latta for this achievement and thank you for bringing Dr. Mary Edwards Walker's story to life.
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“Mattie and the Machine”by Lynn Ng Quezon Wins 2023 Grateful American Book Prize | Grateful American Book Prize Island of Spies" by Sheila Turnage and "I Could Not Do Otherwise: The Remarkable Life of Dr. Mary Edwards Walker" by Sara Latta earn Honorable Mentions…

So perfectly said! Talia Aikens Nunez Children's Writer shares MEN OF THE 65TH with News 12 Connecticut
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Remembering the Borinqueneers: New Haven children's author pens book about Puerto Rican soldiers Talia Aikens-Nuñez is a children's author pushing for diversified and multi-cultural books for the younger generation.

Everybody's got burning questions, including your young adult readers. Give them the information they need with these new nonfiction titles! Today's Lerner podcast episode takes a peek at the latest and greatest.
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Fall 2023 Book Buzz Editor Preview | New YA Nonfiction from Twenty-First Century Books and Zest - The Lerner Podcast Join us to learn about our forthcoming young adult nonfiction titles from Lerner Publishing Group!Beyond S*x Ed: Understanding S*xually Transmitted Infections Young people account for almost half of the 26 million new sexually transmitted inf...

Today author Caitlin Donohue joins us on the Lerner blog to share how she crafted the inclusive and comprehensive overview W**D: CANNABIS CULTURE IN THE AMERICAS.
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W**d: An Interview with Author Caitlin Donohue W**d: Cannabis Culture in the Americas is a wide-reaching and inclusive collection of interviews which will satisfy young adult readers curious in the unique plant’s history and future. Cultu…

"The conversations W**D encourages are necessary, even for non-users, and could lead to some remarkably digestible, bone-deep lessons." Thank you Willamette Week for sharing Caitlin Donohue's new YA nonfiction!
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Caitlin Donohue’s New Book, “W**d: Cannabis Culture in the Americas,” Aims to Educate Teens Advocating for adult cannabis education has always been a hallmark of this column. Sure, Potlander features goofy gift guides; relatable, stoned reviews; and the occasional scientific breakdown, but each article is grounded by my reverence for cannabis as plant medicine, acknowledgement of the damag...

Jump into with this episode from @¡Gracias por tu Servicio! Talia Aikens Nunez Children's Writer guest stars on the podcast to discuss the distinguished Borinqueneers whose bravery and fidelity are chronicled in her latest nonfiction MEN OF THE 65TH.

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‎Gracias Por Tu Servicio: Episodio 65: Men of the 65th - The Borinqueneers of the Korean War (Talia Aikens-Nuñez) on Apple Podcasts ‎Show Gracias Por Tu Servicio, Ep Episodio 65: Men of the 65th - The Borinqueneers of the Korean War (Talia Aikens-Nuñez) - Sep 14, 2023