2014 Arab American Book Award Winner:
A Kid’s Guide to Arab American History by Yvonne Wakim Dennis and Maha Addasi (Chicago Review Press, 2013). Peek: “…dispels stereotypes and provides a look at the people and experiences that have shaped Arab American culture in a format enjoyable for elementary students.
From the promotional copy of Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out, words and photographs by Susan Kuklin (Candlewick, 2014).
A groundbreaking work of LGBT literature takes an honest look at the life, love, and struggles of transgender teens.
Author and photographer Susan Kuklin met and interviewed six transgender or gender-neutral young adults and used her considerable skills to represent them thoughtfully and respectfully before,
By Carmen Oliver
of The Booking Biz
“I don’t believe in barriers…just fly your plane.”
—Captain Nicole Malachowski from Tanya Lee Stone’s Almost Astronauts (Candlewick, 2009)
Over the last eleven years, I encountered a lot of barriers.
A lot of uncertainty.
By J.L. Powers
What would your life be like if it felt like you were looking into a kaleidoscope every time you opened your eyes?
What would it feel like to experience strange visions twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, even at night when you dream?
That’s what happened to George Mendoza when he started going blind as a teenager.
David Zeltser is the first-time author of Lug, Dawn Of The Ice Age: How One Small Boy Saved Our Big, Dumb Species (Egmont, 2014). From the promotional copy:
In Lug’s Stone Age clan, a caveboy becomes a caveman by catching a jungle llama and riding it against the rival Boar Rider clan in the Big Game.
Continue Reading New Voice: David Zeltser on Lug, Dawn Of The Ice Age »
Scary & diverse
Thirteen Scary YA Books: Diverse Edition from Lee & Low. Peek: “Halloween is right around the corner. There’s no better way to celebrate than by reading books that will scare you to pieces!”
Green Earth Book Awards from The Pirate Tree: Social Justice and Children’s Literature.
Excerpt, educator’s guide & more information!
I was reading books about Houdini. It seemed to me one of the most exciting things about him was that, as well as being the world’s most famous illusionist, he also devoted much of his life to doing battle against “magic”.
Enraged at the thought of ordinary people being exploited,
Continue Reading Guest Post: Simon Nicholson on An Alternative History & Investigator of Mystery »
When I was young I read a book a day.
I always had a book with me, whether it was inside my desk when I was done with the class assignment, or in the car as the family drove somewhere (and especially long trips), the waiting room of the dentist office,
As writers, we can become so firmly grounded in our manuscripts that it’s often hard to pull ourselves away from our settings to deal with the real world.
When I was first writing Tori and the Sleigh of Midnight Blue, my middle grade novel published by North Dakota Institute of Regional Studies,
Continue Reading Guest Post: Margo Sorenson on Working with a University Press »
Jon & Mac
By Mac Barnett & Jon Klassen
Mac: Hi, Jon!
Jon: Oh! Hi Mac!
Mac: And hello, Cynsations readers. We have taken over the blog today.
Jon: Yes.
Mac: We are using our power to just post this gchat we are having into the blog.
