Hi friends! I'm going on my very first book tour and I'd love to see you at one of these events! SAY MY NAME is available to preorder now!

bookshop.org/a/12341/978006…

Last day to bid! The auction closes tonight at midnight HST!

This podcast episode with Joanna Ho and Caroline Kusin Pritchard and Dan Santat is pure gold! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#kidlit #WritingCommunity

Here's my item up in the auction! 32auctions.com/organizations/…

Thank you for this outpouring of support. To check out the auction, go to the following link:
32auctions.com/BooksforMaui

We've been OVERWHELMED with the generosity! We have over 800 individuals who donated multiple items each...please stay tuned when the auction goes live next week!

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The best kind of party

Dozens of authors were on hand at ALA, and we’ve got photos! See our photo essay, which includes Jerry Craft, Judy Blume, Laurie Halse Anderson, Amina Luqman-Dawson, Kelly Yang, Aisha Saeed, Joanna Ho, and many more! pw-ne.ws/fed78

40K people are served by this library. That means 53 loud people get to decide what all the other folks read - in a public library. They are asking for the library to be defunded - the PUBLIC LIBRARY - based on out of context quotes. This isn't democracy. This is book banning.

Samuels Library - their budget is on the line due to the fact that folks claim there is 'pornography' in the children's section. 597 requests for reconsideration received from 53 individuals seeking 134 books removed from the library.
royalexaminer.com/library-defund…

Congrats, Kelly!!!

The fact that headlines have to say, essentially, 'In a surprise move, Supreme Court says yes, the racist system did a racism' says all you need to know about this Court.