Byron Graves
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Author of Rez Ball 📚🏀🛹🦇🌈 semi retired emo. Most mid skater on my rez
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HarperStacks
5 days ago
As
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
comes to a close, take some time to check out our new Heartdrum educator guides! These guides a great resource all year long for your readers of all ages 📚 Learn more here:
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Denver/NCTE! I’ll be signing books and taking pics at the Harper Collins booth, 913, today from noon to one! Hope to see ya
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See y’all at the Colorado Convention Center!
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Here are some ways we can help our Denver neighbors right now
feedingcolorado.org/donate/
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Donate - Feeding Colorado
DONATE Help Us Nourish Our Neighbors Feeding Colorado is the partner state association of the five Feeding America food banks that serve Colorado and Wyoming. Our mission is to improve food security i...
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Black Phone 2 is one of the rare sequels to be even better than the first
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Happy Mean Girls Day to those who celebrate
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Reminder for anyone mad that Bad Bunny Is performing at the Super Bowl… ENGLISH ISN’T THIS LANDS FIRST LANGUAGE
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Cynthia Leitich Smith (Native Books for Young Readers & More)
2 months ago
Fox5 DC book expert Kelsi recommends ANCESTOR APPROVED: INTERTRIBAL STORIES FOR KIDS, edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Heartdrum) as a middle-grade read for the autumn season. View:
www.fox5dc.com/video/1714385
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How am I supposed to be the savior of the broken, the beaten and the damned when I can’t even get to work on time?
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If the apocalypse comes, beep me
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🥹🥹🥹🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼
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Children's Bookshelf
3 months ago
Announcing new deals for
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Rights Report: Week of September 1, 2025
New deals for Tiffany Wang, Clare Edge, Byron Graves, and others.
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Cynthia Leitich Smith (Native Books for Young Readers & More)
3 months ago
"Editor, Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muscogee) calls it 'a hug of a book.'...our special feature on Indigenous food sovereignty."
www.nativeamericacalling.com/friday-augus...
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Friday, August 29, 2025 — The Menu: “Seeds” and the “Legendary Frybread Drive-In” » Native America Calling
In the comedy thriller, Seeds, social media influencer, Ziggy, is offered a lucrative sponsorship contract with a corporate seed and fertilizer company. But she’s also called back to her Mohawk reserv...
https://www.nativeamericacalling.com/friday-august-29-2025-the-menu-seeds-and-the-legendary-frybread-drive-in/
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3 months ago
The Toronto Blue Jays held a moment of silence prior to the start of tonight’s baseball game vs the Minnesota Twins. Canada is a good friend. 🇨🇦
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MN Author, Byron Graves
Event in Warroad, MN by Warroad Public Library and 2 others on Tuesday, August 26 20255 posts in the discussion.
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Cynthia Leitich Smith (Native Books for Young Readers & More)
4 months ago
"My community on the Red Lake reservation champions my writing and celebrates it. The books I write aren't mine, but ours." —
@byrongraves.bsky.social
from Boozoo Books:
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HarperStacks
6 months ago
Congrats to
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Cynthia Leitich Smith (Native Books for Young Readers & More)
6 months ago
REZ BALL by Byron Graves (Heartdrum, 2023) has been chosen by the Colorado Center for the Book for Great Reads of Great Places at the National Book Festival Sept. 6 in Washington, D.C., where it will be featured at the Roadmap to Reading!
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Crested Butte, CO! On 6/24 I’ll be signing copies of Rez Ball at 3:30 & doing a book reading at 6
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Oklahoma Library Association
8 months ago
The Oklahoma Library Association is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Donna Norvell and Sequoyah Book Awards! These awards are special because they are voted on by young readers all across the great state of Oklahoma-- and for the first time in 39 years, we have a TIE for one of our lists!
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Thunderbolts was sooooooo good!!!
7 months ago
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Happy Game 7 Saturday to those in Colorado who celebrate
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American Library Association
8 months ago
MORE: Senators Jack Reed, Lisa Murkowski, Kirsten Gillibrand, & Susan Collins all joined the letter to the interim director of IMLS. Library advocates are making their voices heard. Congress is listening. ALA applauds this bipartisan action. Read our full statement:
www.ala.org/news/2025/03...
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Donate to Support Ohíya Walker's New York Fashion Dreams, organized by Dalton Walker
Ohíya is raising funds to help cover expenses for a two-week pre-college … Dalton Walker needs your support for Support Ohíya Walker's New York Fashion Dreams
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Cynthia Leitich Smith (Native Books for Young Readers & More)
8 months ago
ATTN Readers! Find out how to support libraries & library personnel in 2025 at the ALSC Blog: Pursuing Excellence for Library Service to Children:
www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2025/02...
#kidlit
#libraries
#picturebooks
#librarians
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From an Indigenous pov saying an awful thing isn’t Christian feels like such an overt erasure of the horrific history done in the name of that religion
9 months ago
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Chris Hayes
9 months ago
The good news is that there *are* people meeting the moment.
youtu.be/EJxRtjma7lc
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Idaho teacher fights back after order to remove ‘Everyone is Welcome Here’ poster
YouTube video by MSNBC
https://youtu.be/EJxRtjma7lc
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American Library Association
9 months ago
"We must prevent that divide from growing wider and let our Congress members know that library hotspot lending empowers our communities to learn, live, and prosper—whether they’re freshmen, families, or farmers." — ALA President Cindy Hohl and Tara O’Hagan
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Learning, livelihoods in jeopardy with federal resolutions
When severe weather like we’ve had these last two months prevented Bullitt County students from attending school full time, a crucial library hotspot lending program kept 30% of them connected
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Cynthia Leitich Smith (Native Books for Young Readers & More)
9 months ago
Reminder! My 2025 book releases are available to pre-order: FIREFLY SEASON, a picture book, illustrated by Kate Gardiner & LEGENDARY FRYBREAD DRIVE-IN, a YA anthology with cover art by Paula TopSky Houtz.
#PictureBook
#YABooks
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Michelle Bartman
9 months ago
Thanks
@netgalley.bsky.social
for the ARC! And a big shout out to
@byrongraves.bsky.social
,
@littlebadger.bsky.social
, and all the other fabulous authors who wrote stories for this collection. I highly enjoyed them!
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Michelle Bartman
9 months ago
💙📚 20/80: "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" edited by
@cynleitichsmith.bsky.social
This amazing collection of intertribal stories brings Indigenous people together in one magical location. All paths lead to Sandy June's for some legendary frybread and grandparent wisdom. ✨💕
#BIPOCauthors
#YAbooksky
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Loves it! 🙏🏼🏀 📚 Thanks Nancy
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When Trump said Make America Great Again, I didn’t think he meant the Great Depression
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Nikita Danshin
9 months ago
Looking for an Indigenous 🇨🇦Canadian writer or narrative designer for consulting and/or collaboration on a game project. Bsky, please help!
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See you tomorrow Laporte, MN!
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daniellefraggle
9 months ago
ALL DINÉ POETS 🩵
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March 2025
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/issue/1651121/march-2025
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Kevin Moberg, Ph.D.
9 months ago
I just read REZ BALL by
@byrongraves.bsky.social
. It was named a Whippoorwill Award honor book for 2024. Smooth interweaving of northern MN rurality, Ojibwe culture, sports, video gaming, grief, and other elements of adolescent life.
#AdolLit
#YALit
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Cynthia Leitich Smith (Native Books for Young Readers & More)
9 months ago
I appreciate the recommendation! More info on SISTERS OF THE NEVERSESA:
cynthialeitichsmith.com/kidbooks/kid...
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Lily Meade
9 months ago
Still revising, but today is my mother’s birthday! Any shares would be greatly appreciated!
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We Need Diverse Books
9 months ago
📚 Don’t miss these 2025 YA releases from Indigenous authors and artists! Be sure to learn more about these titles, including plot summaries and creators’ tribal/nation affiliation, on the Indigenous Reads Rising website (also 🔗 in bio) 💻
indigenousreadsrising.com
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Tiffany⸆⸉
9 months ago
DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.
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Cynthia Leitich Smith (Native Books for Young Readers & More)
9 months ago
YALSA’s Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults List includes two Heartdrum novels—REZ BALL by Byron Graves and LOOKING FOR SMOKE by KA Cobell. Find the lists (top ten and full):
www.ala.org/yalsa/best-f...
#youngadultbooks
#yabooks
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Holly Cullen
9 months ago
Dolly Parton teaming up with The Wiggles - so much humanity and positivity in one album.
www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/enterta...
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Dolly Parton's surprise team-up with The Wiggles
Music legend Dolly Parton has teamed up with the Australian children's group The Wiggles in an unexpected collaboration.
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Ethan M. Aldridge
9 months ago
I've seen an old misunderstanding going around; that libraries don't benefit authors. But they do! A lot! Here's how:
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