Ghost Boys #GraphicNovel by @jewellparkerrhodes.bsky.social Full of ghosts of today and the past who lost their lives too soon because someone in "power" felt threatened by a little boy. Ghosts of decades past address how little we have come. #MG #YA #TLSky #BookSky #YA #BookRecommendation

@drtlovesbooks.bsky.social that was a fantastic @pbsnewshour chat! Thanks for sharing your info.

If you and your children are not ready for a particular book, that is okay. It is not okay to limit the access to books, stories, and experiences for other families. Every book is not for everyone, but every book is for someone. bookriot.com/the-day-the-books-disappeared-school-visit-cancelation/

Studying legends and ghost stories about a community can help students develop historical thinking and information literacy skills #EduSky #TLSky www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

Spread librarian love! Nominate an extraordinary librarian for the #ILoveMyLibrarian Award. Nominations are accepted online now through Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. ilovelibraries.org/love-my-librarian

The Booker Prize Foundation has launched the Children’s Booker Prize, the charity’s first award for children’s fiction. 👇 #BookSky

Disturbing but hardly surprising. But what do we do about it?? I fear the horse has left the barn.

EDUCATORS: Join this PBS NewsHour Classroom zoom to share *your concerns* about AI in a supportive, caring space. We will not be recording this mtg. Thur. Oct. 30, 2025 7-8pm ET | #MediaLiteracyWeek @pbsteachers.bsky.social RSVP: https://bit.ly/PBS-AI-Zoom10-30

Students need clarity and be trained, educated in using AI.  #EduSky

Inventive and interactive #middlegrade illustrated memoir explores the effects of misaligned eyes and helps overcome “outrigue” of those who stare and misunderstand. By Emmy-award-winning doc film-maker James Robinson. Buy #WhaleEyes #booksky #schoollibrarians #disabilitylit #kidlit

So, @wakelet.bsky.social is going the way of Padlet & Smore and every other tool librarians love. I get it, it’s a business and you can’t give it free forever. But i am so sad. Anybody got an alternative yet?? #schoollibrarians @aaslala.bsky.social @njasl.bsky.social #ISTE

Huzzah! Perfect!!

It looks like Dinosaur Field Station of NJ is closing and selling their Dino sculptures

Does anyone have collectible author cards they’d be willing to share? Middle-school appropriate please. Thinking it might build reading excitement for my students. Canva or google shareable would be awesome.

Some more good news about what happens when you take cell phones out of schools.

Such a good screen presence. He made anything he was in better. deadline.com/2025/09/grah...

When libraries lose access to federal funds, the entire community loses, including local schools. Public educators rely on libraries & museums for supplemental support and experiential education: www.edweek.org/policy-polit... Tell Congress to #FundLibraries: ala.org/fundlibraries #ForOurLibraries

Fobazi is currently in the ICU and could use your support. Apologies to those I haven’t been able to reach out to yet. You can message me for more info and I will be posting updates to GoFundMe. Please share, send healing thoughts, prayers, etc. ❤️ -Elena gofund.me/c8485b58

How a public library's summer game took over a Michigan city #AnnArbor #Michigan 📚 www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...

1960s pop star Connie Francis has died. The first female singer to chart a number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100, she sold over 40 million records before the age of 25.

BTW you can listen to Shirley herself read the story. Details herein:

From Cracked.com: "Spotted an incredible video on YouTube? It might be a scrape. Scrapes are pieces of existing videos that are re-uploaded, often with fraudulent claims. Amnesty International has created a tool for detecting such videos..." 1/ #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibraries #InfoLit

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

📚There's a few weeks left to enter your picture book manuscript to our New Voices Award writing contest (deadline 6/30/25)! We're looking for unpublished authors of color or Indigenous/Native writers hoping to break into the publishing industry for the first time! 💻Learn more: bit.ly/EnterNewVoices

A wearable navigation assistance system helps blind and partially sighted people navigate through complex environments. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/visual-ass...

@harpercollins.bsky.social just curious if there’s a delay on ebook of Kevin Wilson’s Run for the Hills? I pre-ordered for Kindle and it hasn’t appeared yet…

Just finished Westfallen, by Ann Brashares and Ben Brashares. It’s as if Frequency and Back to the Future had a baby, delivered by Alan Gratz. Perfect for middle schoolers who like action thrillers and WWII. Five ⭐️. And set up for a sequel!!

Trump fired the Librarian of Congress without cause! Sign the petition to stop Trump's attack on the Library of Congress. Help show that Americans will not stand for another attack on our library institutions. action.everylibrary.org/congresshayden via @everylibrary.bsky.social

“Libraries are a cornerstone of democracy, where information is free and equally available to everyone. People tend to take that for granted, and they don’t realize what is at stake when that is put at risk.” - Dr. Carla Hayden We stand with Dr. Carla Hayden 💚 🧵 1/2

“The Library of Congress is meant to serve the nation, not the political or social agenda of any president. To see its independence threatened by executive overreach like this should send a chill down the spine of every member of Congress … Congress must now respond with courage.”

Trump attacked Federal Funding for Libraries. We need Americans like you to take action today! Please sign and share the petition before it's too late! action.everylibrary.org/eoimls2025 via @everylibrary.bsky.social

Happy #StPatricksDay everybody! Here's the man himself, in an illumination from our archives.

@amytintera.bsky.social finished Listen for the Lie this morning. Holy $*** it was good. F****** ❤️ Savvy! Please tell me there’s a film in the works?? See you at the Edgars, I hope!!

Jfc

Just finished this extraordinary and moving novel, Dust Child, by Nguyen Phan Que Mai. (Apologies for no diacritics).

More than 99,000 people were watching live on the Friends of Big Bear Valley Youtube livestream as the chick worked through the hatching process. via @laist.com

Today is Middle Name Pride Day and I'm remembering when Macaulay Culkin (whose original middle name is Carson) asked his followers on Twitter what he should change his middle name to and promised to legally adopt whatever they chose. They decided he should be called Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin.

OMG!!

Great resource! Check out the whole article version she links, too.

Book pre-orders are an indication of reader interest in a title. They demonstrate to publishers and booksellers that working with the author and stocking their books is a wise choice. So, if you love an author's work, consider pre-ordering and/or asking your local library to shelve the book.

Great work by my colleagues and friends @njasl.bsky.social

The ⭐️Starred Review ⭐️spreadsheet that I curate is up to date. (For the moment!) I hope you find this resource useful. #tlsky #edusky #kidlit #skybrarians #mglit #yalit www.librarygirl.net/post/among-t...

Sending this to all the ELA teachers at my school!!

What can YOU do about book bans and censorship in 2025? Kelly Jensen from @bookriot.bsky.social has compiled this list of 56 small tasks that EVERYONE can do to help protect schools, libraries, and access to information. Book bans are about the erasure of identities. bookriot.com/56-small-tas...

Follow, like, repost if you love libraries! Let's show that Americans love libraries, reading, and books! #library #libraries #read #reading #books #author #lit #literature

Amazing! Hoping I can get access to the Digging for Britain show

Today marks the start of the 125th annual Christmas Bird Count! To help you prepare, check out this conversation from 2022 about how long-term records aid scientists in tracking changing bird patterns.

This is beautiful. Thank you for sharing

Because he is oh so human, fallible like us all.

Ok how about a Preeti-is-moving giveaway! I have 15 copies of SPIDER-MAN’S BAD CONNECTION that need a home (bc I do not have room in mine 😭). I’ll send them out to the first 15 ppl who repost with their favorite thing about our beloved disaster, Peter Parker). Continental US only!