Note: this post was cowritten by my friend and cohost of #ReadThisNow: Dr. Brad Gustafson! Big news from the co-hosts of Read This Now!!...

Book challenges are on the rise. ALA's Office of Intellectual Freedom, which tracks requests to remove materials from library shelves,...

This year, during the month of June, I decided to share one graphic novel a day (on Instagram and Twitter) that features queer...

This is the final blog posts in a series that will serve as a guide for practicing “disruptive collection development” in the context of...

This is the fourth in a series of five blog posts that will serve as a guide for practicing “disruptive collection development” in the...

This is the third in a series of five blog posts that will serve as a guide for practicing “disruptive collection development” in the...

This is the second in a series of five blog posts that will serve as a guide for practicing “disruptive collection development” in the...

In 2018, Melissa Stewart (author of nearly 200 nonfiction texts for young people) wrote this piece for School Library Journal, detailing...

I hesitate to declare that 2020 has been a good year in any capacity, but it really and truly has been a wonderful year for books! All...

Talking about the books we're reading is a powerful practice...and sharing the characters we love sends positive ripples into the reading...

UPDATE: This post has been updated to include the 2020 "iYMA Awards." --------- In her beautiful, smart and funny book Why You Should...

With a nod to the great Doug Johnson, from time to time, I'll be using this space to revise an old post. Today's BFTP (Blast From The...

Update: Although originally published on 11/1/2015, I've updated this post to refresh some broken links and also to include a few...

I'm finding it very difficult not to think about my mother right now. She died almost four years ago. But when she was alive, we had a...

One of my heroes, Doug Johnson, includes a "Blast From The Past" post on his blog each week. As Doug describes it: "A weekend Blue Skunk...

Confession time! I'm ashamed to admit it, but I tried to talk Brad out of doing the #30secondbooktalk this year. Before you judge me too...

Every semester I ask the students in my Young Adult Literature course to share five "Deserted Island Books" - that is to say, five books...

In February 2020, the World Health Organization warned that the COVID-19 pandemic was also resulting in an INFOdemic: a term they defined...

To be clear, I've been thinking of leaving Facebook for awhile now. The idea of abandoning the personal/professional network I'd been...

Every Sunday in December, I posted a list featuring eight of my favorite books of 2019. I sorted those lists into five categories:...