Social studies teachers: Please teach your students this week that land can't vote. Thank you for your attention to this matter! #edusky #sschat

Teen Vogue covered fashion and celebrity, but also took in-depth looks at politics and social justice issues. The union representing workers at Condé Nast said six staffers are losing their jobs.

“Rebellion 1776” by Laurie Halse Anderson Wins 2025 Grateful American Book Prize Honorable Mentions Go to Rebecca Brenner Graham and Debbie Levy for Works on Frances Perkins and the Scopes Trial gratefulamericanbookprize.org/2025/10/08/r...

So much respect for these awesome Americans!

#OnThisDay in 1781, the British officially surrendered following the Siege of Yorktown. This dramatic scene hanging in the Museum commemorates the event and features figures such as Rochambeau, Washington, and Lafayette. Take a closer look: https://bit.ly/3D6M698

#OTD October 19, 1692 women in Salem jail tell Increase Mather their witchcraft confessions were false & coerced.

📆 📚✨Mark your calendars for BOOKFEST@BANKSTREET on November 1 — featuring keynote speaker, award-winning, New York Times-bestselling #kidlit author @halseanderson.bsky.social! ✍️REGISTER to watch Live or online: www.bankstreet.edu/library/cent... @bankstreetlibrary.bsky.social @bankstreet.edu

Looking forward to Tuesday night with @halseanderson.bsky.social in Fayetteville!

📆 📚✨Mark your calendars for BOOKFEST@BANKSTREET on November 1 — featuring keynote speaker, award-winning, New York Times-bestselling #kidlit author @halseanderson.bsky.social! ✍️REGISTER to watch Live or online: www.bankstreet.edu/library/cent... @bankstreetlibrary.bsky.social @bankstreet.edu

I am SO honored by this award! And very grateful! 🥰📚🇺🇸

“This concept that small group of people, whatever their motivations, get to choose for the overwhelming majority of people is absurd. It is tyranny.” @halseanderson.bsky.social speaks up from the Big Chair! w/ @sagepub.com youtu.be/dhsqHBpU2Pk?... #BannedBooksWeek #CensorshipIsSo1984

On my way to the Illinois school librarian’s conference!! It’s Banned Books Week y’all! @aaslala.bsky.social @penamerica.bsky.social @peninternational.bsky.social

Join #BannedBooksWeek and prepare for the #AmericanRevolution250 by participating in the @ncacensorship.bsky.social read-ins of historical fiction "Chains" by @halseanderson.bsky.social Host an event or find one near you. Read: www.righttoreadnight.com www.zinnedproject.org/materials/ch...

Laurie Halse Anderson is a national treasure. Books save lives, and it fills me with wonder and love to think of the lives she and her books have helped save. That her books are banned from schools statewide in Utah is a heartbreaking tragedy.

Many thanks to the University of Utah for inviting me to talk about banned books yesterday! The audience was huge and enthusiastic, ranging from students to professors, a spirited group of retired librarians and the wonderful @shannonhale.bsky.social!

For all those who love democracy, free speech, and books, this one is for you. Grab of copy of "Chains" by @halseanderson.bsky.social & support the #FREADomtoRead

Utah friends! Join me Tuesday 9/30 at University of Utah's Marriott Library. I'll talk about book banning, being a preacher's kid whose books are banned & "The Power of Story to Unite US." There will be time for schmoozing afterward. I'm happy to sign any books that you bring from home! 📚♥️🇺🇸

Utah friends! Join me Tuesday 9/30 at University of Utah's Marriott Library. I'll talk about book banning, being a preacher's kid whose books are banned & "The Power of Story to Unite US." There will be time for schmoozing afterward. I'm happy to sign any books that you bring from home! 📚♥️🇺🇸

Join @txfreedomread.bsky.social and @freadomfighters.bsky.social on October 5 for a discussion of Chains by @halseanderson.bsky.social as we kick off Banned Books Week with a Right to Read Night! Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Ah, September... when you see trees that make you think of fairy castles and pixie hideaways...

Redolent of a summer meadow teeming with colour and life, the high blue sky behind, this blue brocade gown was worn as a wedding dress by Helena Slicher in 1759. Such gowns were a canvas on which to show off the skill & expense of the brocade weavers’ art @rijksmuseum.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

@ncacensorship.bsky.social is calling on community organizations, libraries, faith groups, and friends to host a Right to Read Night during #BannedBooksWeek, featuring @halseanderson.bsky.social's Chains. Learn how to organize your own Right to Read Night ⬇️ #CensorshipIsSo1984 #UniteAgainstBookBans

Keep speaking up! Keep contacting your elected officials. Encourage others to speak up. Encourage others to contact their elected officials. Resist this regime. If not now, when?

Looking for #BannedBooksWeek resources? Unite Against Book Bans has you covered! @penamerica.bsky.social @ncacensorship.bsky.social #Freadom 📚🇺🇸

Ok. Don’t know about you, but I need a timeline cleanse. So..I went to the farmers’ market today and got cool tomatoes and AMAZING smelling basil and peaches…and I am SO happy that it’s this time of year.

Just stumbled on a great obituary of a #RevWar soldier, Josiah Wentworth, who died in 1841 at age 87. A Bostonian, Josiah joined the Patriot army after Lexington. My fave line: "...when a boy, (he) rendered himself obnoxious to the British officers." #Rebellion1776 @ssedlib.bsky.social

Coming up in *3 weeks*--my online mini workshop on "Big Picture Revision," exploring tools, how + when to use them on #kidlit and #yalit manuscripts. Live August 19 and 21, 7 PM, via @highlightsfound.bsky.social, w/ handouts and a recording available. www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/big...

“When people say things like, ‘It's not a book ban, we just removed it from the school library... In some cases, removing that book from that one place of access is effectively erasing the book altogether from that young person’s life.” @bklynlibrary.bsky.social @edsurge.com #UniteAgainstBookBans

This week, we're celebrating the release of the picture book, THE DAY THE BOOKS DISAPPEARED. Congrats to authors, Joanna Ho and Caroline Kusin Pritchard and to National Book Award-winning illustrator, @dansantat.bsky.social.

Damn ... how far Bilbo and Frodo actually walked (If the Shire is Kansas, Mordor is Jacksonville) (by reddit user fussomoro) bit.ly/BilboFrodo

In July 1863, Camp William Penn opened in Cheltenham Township, PA, as the first & largest federal training camp for Black soldiers in the Civil War. Over 11,000 formerly enslaved and free Black men trained to fight for freedom. 41 days til Slavery Remembrance Day. #CountdownToSRD

Soothe your frazzled mind with art today. ❤️

A bit of etymology to start your day off right. Thanks, @merriam-webster.com! 📚

6 JULY 1775, PHILADELPHIA: “A curious Phenomenon appeared at the Door of our Congress.” A German cavalryman offers to raise a company of German horsemen to fight in the siege of Boston: “A german Hussar, a veteran in the Wars in Germany, in his Uniform, and on Horse back.

This is the one for today. The great @emilysneff.bsky.social and her powerful research on the travels of the Declaration of Independence. #July4th

Oh my goodness - what a wonderful review!! Thank you, @thehornbook.bsky.social! Huzzah! #Rebellion1776 @ssedlib.bsky.social @simonkids.bsky.social

American Library Association 2025 annual conference ✨ Authors, illustrators, library workers, teachers, educators, publishers- the kindest helpers of the books & the people! ✨ Every single “I’m so happy you’re here… not just here here… but HERE in the world” meant everything to me 💚

Thank you for giving us the chance to speak up and speak out!! ❤️🇺🇸

Pinch me! Can’t believe I ran into two of the absolute icons of #youngteenlit at #alaac25 #tlsky Thank you Laurie Halse Anderson and Neal Shusterman for writing some of the finest books ever written for teens

Great new book by @halseanderson.bsky.social. Can't wait to discuss this and other Revolutionary War-related books for the fall Poughkeepsie Public Library District Big Read!

52 years ago today, June 25, 1973 With 85 million households watching on TV, former WH counsel John Dean reads his explosive 60,000 word opening statement which implicates Nixon, himself & other top WH officials in a huge coverup of Watergate & much more. Telling the truth matters.

In 2021, it was an honor for my first novel to be No. 92 on the Oprah’s Book Club list, and today, it is an honor to have an excerpt from Misbehaving at the Crossroads in Oprah Daily. Here, I speak about reproductive freedom & Roe v. Wade. 🙏🏾 www.oprahdaily.com/entertainmen...

"If it's hot outside for you, it's most likely even hotter for your pet," one expert tells NPR. Here's how to protect your pet outdoors, keep them engaged inside and respond to signs of heat stroke.

23 JUNE 1775, PHILADELPHIA: George Washington, Charles Lee & Philip Schuyler depart for the war in New England & New York: “The Three Generals were all mounted, on Horse back,” accompanied by Washington’s new helpers: aide de camp Thomas Mifflin & secretary Joseph Reed.

Led by point guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, the league's Most Valuable Player, the Thunder outlasted the Indiana Pacers for the team's first title since moving to Oklahoma in 2008.

Bombing for peace is like burning books to promote literacy.

Partial to "Brigadier Hateall" but "Sir Sparrow Spendall" is a good one among many. Political satire c 1775 and yet so immediate.

No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries. Always money for war.

Happy birthday to the prophetess Octavia Butler. We live in the times she foretold. From her notebooks.