So pleased that THE BEST WORST SUMMER OF ESME SUN is a five-star read by @yabooknerd.bsky.social!

I have a few openings on my School Librarian Advisory Team for 2026 – if you're interested in taking the occasional survey, getting early copies of new books, & taking a peek behind the scenes of making kids’ books, it might be a good fit for you & your readers! Details: forms.gle/mkA9L5EuvjTu...

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below

Pride honors protest. We remember Marsha. Sylvia. Miss Major. We remember that their fight was against police violence, pretrial incarceration, and systemic erasure. Their legacy calls us to act—still. Read how Pride and pretrial justice are deeply connected: bit.ly/pride-and-pretrial-2025 #Pride

🚨 Hot Off the Press! 🚨 Our very own Dr. Kevin Beckford co-authored a powerful Amsterdam News piece exposing Rikers Island’s violent, anti-Black legacy. 📖 bit.ly/rikers-island ✊🏾 Share & amplify! #EndMassIncarceration #RikersIsland #CriminalJusticeReform

Celebrating Torkwase Dyson, a visionary artist using abstraction to challenge systemic and physical boundaries. Her geometric forms reimagine space as fluid and free, countering a world built on containment. Dyson’s work reshapes power into justice, offering blueprints for liberation and movement 🖤🎨

@wendyshang.bsky.social @scholastic.bsky.social THE BEST WORST SUMMER OF ESME SUN (6/3/25) is the perfect #MGLit summer read. Summer hanging out at the pool, with some realistic angst. 💙💙💙💙💙

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Day 18

This is such an informative and important post from @dashkaslater.bsky.social, the author of ACCOUNTABLE. How do you prepare your school community for reading a "controversial" book? This MS principal gives a master class in transparency and communication. www.dashkaslater.com/post/how-to-...

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Day 5 of the 20 Day Book Challenge

Day 4 - 20 books that influenced or stayed with me

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Day 2 of 20 books in 20 days

Following the @quietlibrarian.bsky.social challenge - 20 days, 20 books that changed or influenced you, no explanations needed.

Teachers & librarians! Want an author to Zoom into your classroom for World Read Aloud Day February 5th? I'll be sending out this year's list of author/illustrator volunteers in my email newsletter next week! If you'd like access, sign up here: katemessner.us20.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...