Ruth Behar

Felicidades to @johnparraart.bsky.social! So honored that his beautiful cover art for ACROSS SO MANY SEAS has won much-deserved recognition. 🙏❤️

How We All Became Vulnerable Observers By Ruth Behar | When I called myself a vulnerable observer twenty-five years ago, most other scholars looked at me askance. The word “vulnerable” wasn’t on everyone’s lips then, so it always took a mo...

Not only is our world vulnerable, but we’ve all become vulnerable observers as we move about our lives concerned about the next catastrophe. Just ask @ruthbehar.bsky.social. #HispanicHeritageMonth

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. ❤️

Coming soon: new projects from @sylvialiu.bsky.social @jashar.bsky.social @cassandradraws.bsky.social @ruthbehar.bsky.social + more buff.ly/C8hGBMb

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

Looking forward to being at @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social conference this weekend!

Across So Many Seas - Penguin Classroom Portal NEWBERY HONOR WINNERSYDNEY TAYLOR BOOK AWARD HONOR WINNER Spanning over five hundred years, Pura Belpré Award winner Ruth Behar’s epic novel tells the stories of four girls from different generations ...

The Sydney Taylor Honor and Newbery Honor award-winning book by @ruthbehar.bsky.social is now in paperback! Get free resources for ACROSS SO MANY SEAS to bring this historical novel into your class or library!

Happy to announce that today is the paperback release day of Across So Many Seas!! 🙏💙🧿

Thinking About Deportation, from 1492 to 2025 Before deportations, there were expulsions. If we go back just over 500 years, to 1492, we are in the era when Columbus landed in the Americas, with the support of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabela.

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The Pedro and Daniel Intersectionality Book Award MG/YA finalists!

ACROSS SO MANY SEAS
@ruthbehar.bsky.social

THE COLOR OF SOUND
@emilybarthisler.bsky.social

More details: ReadYourWorld.org/awards

#PADIBA #PADIBA2025 #KidlitBookNews #kidlit #kidlitcommunity #TLSky #SkyBrarians #edusky

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

Newbery Honor Author Ruth Behar I asked Erin Entrada Kelly, Ruth Behar, Chanel Miller, Lesa Cline-Ransome, and Kate O'Shaughnessy to each answer two questions and finish tw...

Happy School Library Month! (Day 4)

"School librarians are memory-keepers and story-keepers and the guardians of all the knowledge of the universe." — @ruthbehar.bsky.social mrschureads.blogspot.com/2025/02/newb...

My Interview with 2025 Sydney Taylor Book Award & Newbery Honoree Ruth Behar! YouTube video by E Train Talks Books

Thank you!♥️ It was an honor to interview the wonderful @ruthbehar.bsky.social
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My Interview with 2025 Sydney Taylor Book Award & Newbery Honoree Ruth Behar! YouTube video by E Train Talks Books

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
#STBA #booksky #mglit #kidlit #Jewish #blogger

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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

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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.

Newbery Honor Author Ruth Behar I asked Erin Entrada Kelly, Ruth Behar, Chanel Miller, Lesa Cline-Ransome, and Kate O'Shaughnessy to each answer two questions and finish tw...

"That my writing is appreciated at this stage of my life, now that I’m a grandmother, means everything to me." —Dr. @ruthbehar.bsky.social mrschureads.blogspot.com/2025/02/newb...

Newbery Honor Author Ruth Behar I asked Erin Entrada Kelly, Ruth Behar, Chanel Miller, Lesa Cline-Ransome, and Kate O'Shaughnessy to each answer two questions and finish tw...

#TLSkyChat "School librarians are memory-keepers and story-keepers and the guardians of all the knowledge of the universe." — @ruthbehar.bsky.social mrschureads.blogspot.com/2025/02/newb...

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

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!

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Congratulations @ruthbehar.bsky.social!!

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 ❤️

Thank you, Lynda!! ❤️

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.

YAY! ACROSS SO MANY SEAS by @ruthbehar.bsky.social is a a Sydney Taylor Book Award Middle Grade Honor! We’re so happy 🐧🧡

WOW WOW WOW! ACROSS SO MANY SEAS is a Newbery Honor winner! We are over the moon for @ruthbehar.bsky.social congratulations! 🎉🥹

Amazing news! Congratulations, @ruthbehar.bsky.social!

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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Such an honor to see Across So Many Seas included in this wonderful longlist! ❤️🙏❤️

A8: If I listed all the books of my heart this year, I would be here all night! Here are a few I have not yet mentioned tonight! #TLSkyChat
Ferris by Kate DiCamillo
A Strange Thing Happened at Cherry Hall by Jasmine Warga
Across So Many Seas by @ruthbehar.bsky.social
Valor Wings by Sam Subity