Today we feature an insightful, nuanced conversation about adoption narratives in kidlit between authors #ShannonGibney and Mariama J. Lockington : RE-ENVISIONING ONE-DIMENSIONAL ADOPTEE NARRATIVES IN KIDLIT: thebrownbookshelf.com/2024/04/04/ado…

📚🧁🔅 Rajani LaRocca 💗⚾️🧬 Jane Kuo Mae Respicio's #MG is out 4/9/24! Aida Salazar JOVITA WORE PANTS & CALLING THE MOON Andrea Davis Pinkney Author Lisa Fipps Veera Hiranandani (she/her/hers) ✨ Cindy Baldwin isn’t checking DMs✨ YOUNG ADULT

📖 “A Million Quiet Revolutions” by robin glow-in-the-dark (Fae/ It/ He)
📖 “Ode to My First Car” by robin glow-in-the-dark (Fae/ It/ He)
📖 “Forever is Now” by Mariama J. Lockington
📖 “Home is Not a Country” by Safia Elhillo
📖 “Salt the Water” by 💥candice iloh
📖 “Wings in the Wild” by Margarita Engle

🎞️ ORIGINAL SONG
▪︎ “Drum Roll, Please” by Lisa Jenn Bigelow
▪︎ “In the Key of Us” by Mariama J. Lockington
▪︎ “Scout Is Not a Band Kid” by jade armstrong
▪︎ “Generation Misfits” by Akemi Dawn Bowman - Book Updates
▪︎ “Blackbird Fly” by Erin Entrada Kelly

Andi is grappling with grief following the death of her mom. Zora is exhausted by trying to please her intense parents. Both feel alone until a summer music camp brings them together. 🎺

Start reading Mariama J. Lockington's IN THE KEY OF US—on sale now for $2.99! bit.ly/3tVPXUD

Lisa Yee - THE MISFITS have arrived! Just finished this amazing novel in verse by Mariama J. Lockington Forever Is Now (Schneider Family Book Award Winner) #YA #kidlit

Listen to Mariama J. Lockington introduce herself. share.teachingbooks.net/QL8RTIZ #ALAyma #ALAYMA24 Farrar,Straus&Giroux @sorareadingapp Mariama J. Lockington @forblackgirlslikeme

.Mariama J. Lockington's IN THE KEY OF US is a lyrical ode to music camp, the rush of first love, and the power of one life-changing summer! 🎵💗✨

Start reading this heartfelt middle grade story now for just $2.99 while the ebook is on sale at bit.ly/3tVPXUD

Vashti Harrison is the first Black woman to win the coveted #Caldecott . ow.ly/SVfu50Qt9NO

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Hip hip HOORAY for our ALA Youth Media Award Winners and Honorees!! 🌟🌟🌟

Sending a huge thanks (and a huge hug!!) to all of the committee members who made this joyful day possible! 💕 #LibLearnX24

This is surreal! I can’t believe it… out of this world grateful and honored. When I started writing I never could have imagined this 🥹🥹🥹🎉🎉🎉 Thank you to the ALA for considering and choosing Rez Ball. Shoutout to each of the nominees 🙏🏼 Miigwech

We are beyond thrilled for Ari Tison!! SAINTS OF THE HOUSEHOLD has WON the Pura Belpré Award for Young Adult Literature!! 🎉🎊🎉

REFORMA National #ALAyma #LibLearnX24
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Exciting news! Mariama J. Lockington's YA novel, FOREVER IS NOW, has won the Schneider Family Book Award for Best Book for Teens!!! Congratulations, Mariama J. Lockington!! ✨👏

ALSC #ALAyma #LibLearnX24
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Howdy friends! I’m back with another book blurb — this one is about the incredibly poignant book, Forever is Now, by Mariama J. Lockington. Please give it a read, it’s up on Matthew's Place now ✨😌

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Friday afternoon at #NCTE23 is stacked with exciting programs about LGBTQ+ texts, verse novels, identity, and the #ClassroomBookADay movement! Join @carolelindstrom, @dashkaslater, @bridgetsioln, @mitaliperkins, Chris *THE GRAY* Baron, Mariama J. Lockington, @laannamarie, & Elliott McLemore! 📚🗓️

Rise and shine, it’s the first day of #NCTE23 🌞! Learn how to teach humor writing and rural literature, and diversify your classroom library with these incredible panels! Stop by to hear from Angeline Boulley - #AncestorsBack, Mariama J. Lockington, and Nasugraq R. Hopson (EAGLE DRUMS book).

Today is World Adoption Day. To celebrate, we are giving away 5 copies of When We Became Ours, a YA anthology celebrating adoptees ❤️ Harper360YA

To win, simply:
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T&Cs: UK only 🇬🇧

And click for a story by Mariama J. Lockington ❤️

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#whenwebecomeours arrived! It’s an anthology of YA stories by and about adoptees edited by Shannon Gibney & Nicole Chung | @nicolechung on Bluesky including pieces by Eric Smith, Mark Oshiro - Pre-Order JASMINE IS HAUNTED, Mariama J. Lockington, & @MeredithIreland. This adoptee can’t wait to start reading!

Hi #kidlit and #library Friends! 👋

THE REAL RILEY MAYES was removed from Boyle County Middle School library, about a 50 minute drive from where i live, work, and wrote / drew it

LGBTQ+ kids need stories & info, as ch 8 of RILEY shows

All My Love to the folks who spoke up 🌈

TUES 10/24 @ 7 PM ET **VIRTUAL**: Join Nicole Chung | @nicolechung on Bluesky, Susan Harness, Mariama J. Lockington, Mark Oshiro - Pre-Order JASMINE IS HAUNTED, and Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom/정울림 for and evening of brilliant conversation for WHEN WE BECOME OURS, a YA adoptee anthology from HarperTeen 📚!

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