Mazel Tov! Some New & Upcoming Bar/Bat/Bnei Mitzvah Middle Grade Books, a guest post by Joshua S. Levy The bar and bat mitzvah—or, to use the modern gender-neutral term, bnei mitzvah—occurs at such a perfect, middle gradey moment. And new stories grounded in bnei mitzvah are being told all the time.
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Book Review: The Kids in Mrs. Z’s Class books 1 and 2 I can't wait for young readers to get to discover this awesome new series!
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Book Mail: Summer camp, an escape room, a secret society, minor superpowers, and more! 52 (!!!) new and forthcoming books to build your TBR ever taller!
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Beyond Trigger Warnings: Care in Reading (and Writing) Pain, a guest post by Janice Lynn Mather As an author, how do I approach the potential for pain in the lines I write? How, as a reader, do we make these mostly well-intended but sometimes trivial-feeling statements actually hold meaning for us?
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North Texas Teen Book Festival 2024 Recap A wrap up of the North Texas Teen Book Festival 2024 with an emphasis on some of the cool thrillers and horror being written for tweens and teens today
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