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MS teacher librarian and learner | wife to one, mom to two + two 🐶 & one 🐱. She/her. Passionate thinker: #bookjoy, #mglit, #kidlit, #diglit, #newslit, #gunsense, #nostigma, #access, #democracy, #thinking, #kindness, #EduSky, #TLSky, & #BookPosse 📚💙
#LibraryJoy is everything!
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As #aasl25 draws to a close, all of us are celebrating #BookJoy with the one and only Mychal Threets!! #librarianlife #reading
18.10.2025 21:58 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:
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#A_NewHope ✊
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#NoKings #StLouis #librarianlife
18.10.2025 20:00 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
So proud to be a #librarian. #NoKings #StLouis
18.10.2025 19:52 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Kicked off the conference today with truth teller Jason Reynolds… I am awestruck. #aasl25 #librarianlife
18.10.2025 15:02 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Erin Soderberg Downing, Megan E. Freeman and Sherri L. Smith are talking about brave new worlds, kids navigating extraordinary circumstances, and the difference between plotters and pantsers… thought provoking, funny, and oh so real!! #aasl25 #librarianlife
17.10.2025 15:25 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A seated panel of Ellen Oh, Soman Chainani, and school librarian Lauren Mobley, moderated by Jordan Lloyd Bookey, discuss books, writing, and life.
Kicking off the morning with a panel on We Need Diverse Books with authors Ellen Oh, Soman Chainani, and school librarian Lauren Mobley, moderated by Jordan Lloyd Bookey … feeling entertained, empowered and a little dangerous. #aasl25 #weneeddiversebooks #librarianlife
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CT CASL takes on St. Louis! CT librarians strike a pose at AASL25.
Hey mom, I made it! Pia standing in front of a Welcome to St. Louis AASL sign.
CT CASL takes on St. Louis! #aasl25 #ctcasl
16.10.2025 20:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Definitely!!! Pure magical fantasy, not too dark…
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I just finished reading The Poisoned King, Katherine Rundell’s stunning follow up to Impossible Creatures.
School librarian friends, order it IMMEDIATELY, this series will change the way that you and your students imagine…
#kidlit #mg #ctcaslreads #thepoisonedking @katherinerundell.bsky.social
Stopped in my tracks by this sign pointing out the IMLS absence from #ALAAC25
28.06.2025 18:34 — 👍 575 🔁 234 💬 10 📌 8
“When kids want to be someone else so badly, they sometimes forget who they are… and that they are more than enough.” Craig Kofi Farmer about A Method for Magic and Misfortune… and on life. #ALAAC25 #TLSky
29.06.2025 15:01 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Reveling in #MiddleGrade with luminaries at #ALAAC25. Craig Kofi Farmer, Katherine Applegate and Rebecca Stead… #TLSky
29.06.2025 14:55 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
“May tomorrow bring you the second chance you deserve.” Pocket Bear, by Katherine Applegate… cannot wait to read this one! #ALAAC25 #TLSky
29.06.2025 14:53 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
“To be a librarian, you’ve gotta be ready to.. fight, to do things.” Dr. Carla Hayden in conversation with Kwame Alexander. I. Am. Ready. #ALAAC25 #TLSky
28.06.2025 17:24 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
#MiddleGrade IS Magnificent!! Listening to Dusti Bowling, Beth Ferry, Victor Pineiro, and Maryrose Wood talk about humor as a great layer in their great new books. #ALAAC25
28.06.2025 16:02 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@georgetakei.bsky.social thanked all librarians for serving in a vitally important but dangerous role in our democracy, especially today, because “we have a Klingon in the White House.” #ALAAC25 #truth
28.06.2025 15:19 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0… but dealing with LGBTQ Issues on the show would have been “too far,” and he was afraid that they would lose their audience on all issues.
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Gene Roddenberry valued infinite diversity in infinite combinations… and he knew we must bring everyone together and work as a team is we wanted to ‘go where no man had gone before’… @georgetakei.bsky.social #ALAAC25 #inspired
28.06.2025 15:06 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Ready for @georgetakei.bsky.social #ALAAC25
28.06.2025 14:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“I want my books to be the hug that a child needs… they are my way of saying, between the lines, “I see you.”” ~the incomparable Renee Watson #ALAAC25
27.06.2025 19:06 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“When books become lifelines… and the stories become exactly what we need.”
I am so happy to be with Kate Messner at Bloomsbury’s High Tea at #ALASC25 today - she is even more inspiring in real life than I could imagine. #katemessner
📪📚Book Mail!📚📪
Just finished a book! Perfect timing for a new read! Thank you for sharing w/ #bookposse! ❤️ #margaretfinnegan #atheneumbooks @barbfisch @SimonKIDS @finneganbegin.bsky.social @simonschusteruk.bsky.social
Proud to have been a featured educator in Publishers Weekly a little while ago…. Independent reading is critical for student growth and development!!
#reading #aasl #ala #kidlit #TLSky
Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folks…
“The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government.
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You know what to do! Do it and spread the word!
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Today's creative's YA historical fiction series
reminds the world that Black wealth is neither a new thing nor an anomaly.
#BlackBookSky
#28DaysLater
Day 17: Krystal Marquis
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