It's going to be a great week at BookBreak! We are excited to welcome Kate DiCamillo back to our elementary program on Tuesday. The incredible @dhonielle.bsky.social will be speaking to students on our high school program on Thursday. It will be a week of friendship and families. We can't wait!

We had an amazing time talking with @dhonielle.bsky.social today! She spoke about the importance of friendship and the joys of collaboration. We got a little insight into each of the co-authors of Blackout and we learned about the upcoming third novel in the series! What was your favorite part?

A reminder-there are really great books about magic that center Black & Brown & queer characters where profits don't go to tearing down trans community=The Marvellers @dhonielle.bsky.social; Nic Blake @angiethomas.bsky.social ; The Vanquishers-Kaylynn Bayron; Amari & The Night Brothers-B.B. Alston

Educators’ Guide for A Universe of Wishes Edited by Dhonielle Clayton www.unleashingreaders.com/29331 @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social @dhonielle.bsky.social

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

I cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?

Loyalty is an incredible bookstore with an incredible team. I've done in-person events there, we did the Comfort Reads panels there with @marthawells.com @kjcharleswriter.com @tkingfisher.com, it's a wonderful place. please support if you can. www.crowdcast.io/c/comfortrea...

ugh @loyaltybooks.bsky.social is amazing, one of my fav shops -- take a look at their site and pick up a few books if you've got some spare cash loyaltybookstores.com

“And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.”-Nemik, 5 BBY

We can still save the Institute for Museum and Library Services. Here's a practical guide to what to do right now to save not just the agency's funding but its future all together. Part of this is messaging on reauthorizing the Museum and Library Services Act. bookriot.com/we-can-still...

As someone targeted by the ADL, this is welcome news: The National Education Association, the largest union in the US representing over 3 million members, voted to cut all ties with the Anti-Defamation League. www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...

Disability Pride Month is an international celebration that occurs annually in July. It grew from a celebratory day to honor the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act in July 1990. #booksky

Attention campers 📣 Camp Mackids reporting in with more reading recommendations 🏕️ Consider picking up one of these marvelous middle grade paperbacks from your local bookstore today! 💕

With The Marvellers, @dhonielle.bsky.social makes her middle-grade debut with a fantasy adventure set in a global magic school in the sky —an instant New York Times and #1 Indie Bestseller! Start with the paperback then grab books 2 and 3, out now ✨ bit.ly/4noVeem

This is what sane countries do, but instead the US has immoral conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones pretending that children didn't die, parents weren't grieving, and kids haven't been traumatized, because it's a hoax to take away your gunnnnnnnns.

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They want slavery back and they are saying it to our faces

Junior Library Guild has chosen LEGENDARY FRYBREAD DRIVE-IN edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Heartdrum, Aug. 26, 2025) as a Gold Standard Selection. Pre-order today! #BookSky #Indigenous @harperstacks.bsky.social @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social

Love @katherinelocke.bsky.social's op-ed on the importance of diversity in classroom book collections, and how Mahmoud v. Taylor threatens to destroy it: hechingerreport.org/opinion-ever...

New blog post: Great picks for kids for vacation, including books by @rrremylai.bsky.social, @as-king.bsky.social, @sassinsf.com, @dhonielle.bsky.social, @rebstead.bsky.social, @wenmass.bsky.social, Siobhan McDermott, Katherine Rundell, and Allie Millington. www.lisayelon.com/blog/summer-...

Here’s my Round up of my rhyming reviews for March and April. Some awesome children’s literature and some of my mediocre poetry. Check it out! @elnorrywriter.bsky.social @stubbleagent.bsky.social @joelarcanjo.bsky.social @dhonielle.bsky.social tomsbookcorner.wordpress.com/2025/05/10/m...

In local school board elections across the state of Texas this past weekend, Moms for Liberty, pro-censorship groups, and anti-book access candidates lost over and over and over. The truth matters. Books save lives. When we show up, when we vote, we win! www.slj.com/story/Pro-Ce...

No to the witch bigot! And going to keep recommending @dhonielle.bsky.social’s The Marvellers that is a fabulous magic school book with a Black girl at the center with an inclusive cast & powerful story in a gorgeous magical world www.theconjureverseseries.com

Looking for amazing *NEW* middle grade magic series? Don't miss books like these from @maliamaunakea.bsky.social @georgejreije.bsky.social @dhonielle.bsky.social & @bbalston.bsky.social . 💕📚 #kidlit #middlegrade #iLoveMG multiculturalkidblogs.com/2023/12/11/m...

So many great magic books, and if you read The Marvellers @dhonielle.bsky.social there is a character named Greg Andree in school detention, having to clean up magical creatures’ poop. I imagine there will eventually be a spin-off story explaining how I got in with so many interesting characters.😅

Banning books is not about books. Banning books is about the erasure of stories. Banning books is about the erasure of identities. Erasure is the precursor to eliminationism. Silence is complicity. Resist this regime. Resist this regime of monstrous evildoers.

Today is the first #WeNeedDiverseBooksDay! I'm going to be sharing some of the diverse books and graphic novels I've read and enjoyed lately! Please feel free to join in and share some of yours as well. More info: www.diversebooks.org/celebrate-we...

The P1M team invites you to celebrate the first-ever We Need Diverse Books Day alongside us today! In honor of the occasion, we thought we would share a few of our favorite diverse books! 👇 See more from @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social: https://www.diversebooks.org/ #WeNeedDiverseBooksDay #WNDBD

🎉Happy #WeNeedDiverseBookDay!🎉 ✨To celebrate, we put together a list of titles that celebrate a wide range of experiences & provide readers with "windows, mirrors, and sliding glass doors," — as was conceived by beloved scholar, Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop. 📚Check them out: bit.ly/WNDBDayCollection

THE DEADLY FATES by @dhonielle.bsky.social (Third in a series!) When Ella, Brigit, & Jason return to the Arcanum Training Institute, they discover a dark plot brewing. As they dive into the mystery, it leads them to the Underworld and an impenetrable prison full of villains. #WeNeedDiverseBooksDay

A piece by @nadinematheson.com on the recent (I think) guardian article about Black authors post 2020. V important point on commercial authors - when publishers "pick" a Black author it's often non fic or litfic. open.substack.com/pub/nadinema...

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

Rumeysa Ozturk, a PhD student at Tufts University, is the latest student abducted by ICE for her political beliefs. I joined @pressley.house.gov & @warren.senate.gov in demanding DHS release Rumeysa and provide answers on this disturbing trend. www.boston25news.com/news/local/d...

The Marvellers series by @dhonielle.bsky.social is a lot more than just "anti-HP", but it fits this, I suppose, and it's great! Also the Witchlings series by @claribelortega.bsky.social! And The Grimoire of Grave Fates, edited by @hannaalkaf.bsky.social and @what-eats-owls.bsky.social!

The most amazing #bookmail! I am already halfway through book 2! Highly recommend this series by @dhonielle.bsky.social!! so many metaphors and parallels to what is happening in today’s world. And it definitely has #Magical Vibes. #joyfulreading #joyfulteacherlibrarian @henryholtbooks.bsky.social

The Marvellers series by @dhonielle.bsky.social is epic in every way &this third instalment-The Deadly Fates-is the perfect addition. Can’t recommend this series enough: fun, imagination jaw dropping action and of course magic. tomsbookcorner.wordpress.com/2025/03/16/t...

We are getting new releases from the @tracydeonn.bsky.social and the @dhonielle.bsky.social this week! Y'all our spirits are getting fed! #Booksky #BlackGirlMagic

Most banned books feature people of color and LGBTQ+ people, report finds

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#TheDeadlyFates is coming next week! Early sightings … magic school is back in session. 💫💫💫💫

Absolutely this! @dhonielle.bsky.social’s worlds are so phenomenal. The Marvellers series is better than any magic school books by the UK transphobe. And the Belles is also spectacular. Love to her Black girl bad ass writing.

And a lovely surprise to meet NYT bestelling author @dhonielle.bsky.social this evening at the launch for People Like Stars by @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social. I interviewed Dhonielle in 2023 about the first book in The Marvellers series: booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/an-i...

25% off 2025 preorders we're looking forward to most: @dhonielle.bsky.social third in the Conjureverse series! The Deadly Fates www.mainstbooksmonroe.com/product/the-...

2/11, and I'm back with another favorite author for #BlackHistoryMonth! @dhonielle.bsky.social took my world by storm when I read The Belles for the first time! It's got a fascinating commentary on beauty standards!

Feeling lucky? Enter now at the link for the chance to win all three books in the Conjureverse series by @dhonielle.bsky.social!! And don't forget to add book 3, THE DEADLY FATES, to your TBR ✨📚 bit.ly/thedeadlyfat... #themarvellers #thememorythieves #thedeadlyfates #dhonielleclayton #sweepstakes