Exciting book news!! My son @gabrielfryebehar.bsky.social and I have co-authored a second picture book, Picadillo for Paulina, which will be coming out in Summer 2026 with Norton Young Readers!! Delighted to be working with editor Simon Boughton and artist Erika Rodriguez Medina. ❤️
11.07.2025 20:12 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Coming soon: new projects from @sylvialiu.bsky.social @jashar.bsky.social @cassandradraws.bsky.social @ruthbehar.bsky.social + more buff.ly/C8hGBMb
08.07.2025 21:15 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 3
I'm interviewing all of the 2025 Newbery Winners LIVE on the Real Page-Turner Stage at #ALAAC25. Come by at 9:30 on Saturday, June 28th to see Erin Entrada Kelly, Ruth Behar, Chanel Miller, Lesa Cline-Ransome, and Kate O'Shaughnessy
26.06.2025 20:44 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Looking forward to being at @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social conference this weekend!
25.06.2025 20:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy to announce that today is the paperback release day of Across So Many Seas!! 🙏💙🧿
20.05.2025 14:30 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
The Pedro and Daniel Intersectionality Book Award MG/YA finalists!
ACROSS SO MANY SEAS
@ruthbehar.bsky.social
THE COLOR OF SOUND
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More details: ReadYourWorld.org/awards
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21.04.2025 12:13 — 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Happy #NationalLibraryWeek! Thank you to all the librarians and library workers out there. Use this week to get active in the library in your community: check out a book, go to a program, and/or attend a library board meeting. #BookSky
06.04.2025 12:57 — 👍 37 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0
YouTube video by E Train Talks Books
My Interview with 2025 Sydney Taylor Book Award & Newbery Honoree Ruth Behar!
Thank you!♥️ It was an honor to interview the wonderful @ruthbehar.bsky.social
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11.02.2025 18:07 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by E Train Talks Books
My Interview with 2025 Sydney Taylor Book Award & Newbery Honoree Ruth Behar!
As part of the @jewishlibraries.bsky.social Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour, it's my privledge to share my interview with Sydney Taylor Book Honor & 2025 Newbery Honor recipient the wonderful author @ruthbehar.bsky.social
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11.02.2025 18:05 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
On today's final blog tour stop: @ruthbehar.bsky.social, author of ACROSS SO MANY SEAS, Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Middle Grade Category! @etraintalks.bsky.social
Hosted at etraintalks.com/sydney-taylo...
View the full blog tour schedule at jewishlibraries.org/2025-blog-to...
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11.02.2025 15:41 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
The First State of Being
One Big Open Sky
Across So Many Seas
The Wrong Way Home
I interviewed @erinentrada.bsky.social mrschureads.blogspot.com/2025/02/two-..., Lesa Cline-Ransome mrschureads.blogspot.com/2025/02/newb..., @ruthbehar.bsky.social mrschureads.blogspot.com/2025/02/newb..., and @kloshaughnessy.bsky.social mrschureads.blogspot.com/2025/02/newb... this week.
08.02.2025 00:56 — 👍 43 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 2
Across So Many Seas - Penguin Classroom Portal
“As lyrical as it is epic, Across So Many Seas reminds us that while the past may be another country, it’s also a living, breathing song of sadness and joy that helps define who we are.” –Alan Gratz, ...
Spanning over 500 years, this Newbery Honor-winning novel @ruthbehar.bsky.social tells the stories of four girls from different generations of a Jewish family, many of them forced to leave their country and start a new life.
Get FREE resources for your your class/library! #BookSky #EDUSky
31.01.2025 13:56 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Bright and colorful congratulatory banner that says "CONGRATULATIONS 2025 YMA ALA YOUTH MEDIA AWARDS" and a button with a call to action that reads: CLIKC TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THESE & OTHER AWARD WINNERS!
Covers for books below are:
ACROSS SO MANY SEAS by Ruth Behar (Sydney Taylor Honor and Newbery Honor)
MAGNOLIA WU UNFOLDS IT ALL by Chanel Miller (Newbery Honor)
HOME IN A LUNCHBOX by Cherry Mo (Caldecott Honor)
EVERYTHING WE NEVER HAD by Randy Ribay (APALA Winner for YA)
CHRONICALLY DOLORES by Maya Van Wagenen (Schneider Family Book Award Winner for YA)
POPCORN by Rob Harrell (Schneider Family Book Award Winner for Middle Grade)
A LITTLE LIKE MAGIC by Sarah Kurpiel (Schneider Family Book Award Winner for Picture Book)
What better way to start the week than with the Youth Media Awards! Find out more about these Newbery, Caldecott, and other award winning books for young readers!
Explore the booklist: penguinschoollibrary.com/2025PenguinY...
27.01.2025 20:05 — 👍 18 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Congratulations @ruthbehar.bsky.social!!
28.01.2025 14:42 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
WooHOO!!! A Sydney Taylor Honor AND a Newbery Honor!! Did you hear me yelling for you, @ruthbehar.bsky.social and @nancyrosep.bsky.social !!!? HUGE CONGRATULATIONS ❤️
28.01.2025 14:12 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Thank you, Lynda!! ❤️
28.01.2025 14:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I'm thrilled & grateful to have received a Newbery Honor Award & a Sydney Taylor Honor Book Award for my book, ACROSS SO MY SEAS. Thanks to my amazing editor @nancyrosep.bsky.social & the @penguinschoollib.bsky.social team & my family & ancestors whose stories of resilience I will never forget.
28.01.2025 01:04 — 👍 33 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 2
ACROSS SO MANY SEAS by Ruth Behar congratulatory image for American Library Association 2025 Youth Media Award Syndey Taylor Honor
YAY! ACROSS SO MANY SEAS by @ruthbehar.bsky.social is a a Sydney Taylor Book Award Middle Grade Honor! We’re so happy 🐧🧡
27.01.2025 15:12 — 👍 21 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
ACROSS SO MANY SEAS by Ruth Behar congratulatory image for American Library Association 2025 Youth Media Award Newbery Honor
WOW WOW WOW! ACROSS SO MANY SEAS is a Newbery Honor winner! We are over the moon for @ruthbehar.bsky.social congratulations! 🎉🥹
27.01.2025 16:00 — 👍 36 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
Amazing news! Congratulations, @ruthbehar.bsky.social!
27.01.2025 16:33 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Mazel tov to the authors of the 2025 Sydney Taylor Honor Books!
~Across So Many Seas by @ruthbehar.bsky.social
~Finn and Ezra's Bar Mitzvah Time Loop by @joshuaslevy.bsky.social
~Just Shy of Ordinary by @matokah.bsky.social
~The Forbidden Book by Sacha Lamb
~Trajectory by Cambria Gordon
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27.01.2025 17:00 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Such an honor to see Across So Many Seas included in this wonderful longlist! ❤️🙏❤️
13.01.2025 16:23 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I am so heartened to learn that Across So Many Seas has found its way to 2024 best books lists. Warm thanks to my amazing editor @nancyrosep.bsky.social and to all the readers who’ve shared the book’s 500-year journey. 🙏❤️
07.12.2024 19:14 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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