At From The Mixed-Up Files of Middle-Grade Authors, you can learn more about how Minneapolis communities—particularly bookstores, libraries, and the broader literary world—are responding amid ICE activity, protests, and widespread
Over at From The Mixed-Up Files of Middle Grade Authors, 11 of us weighed in on our writerly and readerly goals for 2026. Check them out.
The latest on how book bans are impacting #kidlit author visits, to the detriment of young readers everywhere. Plus, what you can do about it. All on From The Mixed-Up
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All of us — authors, educators, parents/caregivers, engaged, curious citizens, and of course, readers — have benefitted from America’s libraries. Libraries are the beating heart of our communities, doing everything
Congratulations to Julia DeVillers, author of the new middle-grade novel, Meet Me at Wonderland. Read the full interview with Julia over at From the Mixed-Up Files of Middle-Grade Authors.
Unfortunately, access to books is still under serious threat in the U.S. as the American Library Association’s (ALA) annual report on the state of the nation’s libraries makes all too
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They’re back, baby! (They being drugstores.) As someone who spent her tween and teen years wandering the shampoo and makeup aisles and pouring over the ads in Seventeen magazine, I’m