Marcie Flinchum Atkins

Today! #ncss2025

Books Are Beacons of Light: Sharing the Power of Story By Vivian Kirkfield

Our Dec newsletter, with an article written by @viviankirkfield.bsky.social is ready to read! Find book news, teaching tips, World Read Aloud Day (WRAD2026) schedules, inspiration, a book bundle giveaway and more. tinyurl.com/43rz5b4f

#edusky #booksky #teachers #skybrarian #WRAD2026 #bookgiveaway

This weekend, I’ll be presenting at the #ncss2025 conference in DC. I’m excited to talk about poetry as a portal! Can’t wait to recommend many YA and adult poets that students could read, and ways those poems could serve as models to demonstrate learning.

So grateful that my first review is in for WHEN TWILIGHT COMES and it’s a ⭐️ from SLJ! Can’t wait for you to see Michelle Morin’s amazing illustrations! Coming March 2026 from @chroniclekidsbooks.bsky.social You can preorder a signed copy from One More Page Books!

I’m at @vaasl.bsky.social for #vaaslgold Come say hi!

Every Seed (and Book) Holds Possibility By Lynn Street

The Nov. newsletter with an article by author @lynnstreetbooks.bsky.social is ready to read! Find book news, teaching tips, inspiration, and #KidLitForGrowingMinds members who will attend NCTE! 📚 #NCTE2025 #edusky #booksky #schoollibrarians #skybrarian

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A collage of twenty-one 2025 middle grade and young adult book covers. Books featured include This Is The Year, Glitch Girl!, Top Heavy, Lilac and The Switchback, The Girl In The Walls, Safe Harbor, The Extraordinary Orbit of Alex Ramirez, Under The Neon Lights, The Leaving Room, Octopus moon, 13 Ways To Say Goodbye, Zarina Divided, Truth Is, Where The Heart Should Be, (S)kin, Everything is Poison, Radiant, The Burning Season, Island Creatures, The Siren and The Star and Please Pay Attention.

🌼 42 2025 Middle Grade and Young Adult Novels-In-Verse 🌼
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Thank you!!

Grateful to @slj.com for this awesome review of WOODY'S WORDS: WOODROW WILSON RAWLS AND WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS by me & Susan Reagan! I relied on SLJ as a school #librarian & still do! TY, SLJ!

#WhereTheRedFerngrows #Edusky #librarians #SchoolLibrarians #Skybrarian #Skybrarians #TLSky #biography

Behind the Scenes: “How Primary Sources Can Grow Your Nonfiction Nature Picture Book” by Lynn Street It’s quite amazing when you find primary sources that provide the seed, or acorn, that allows you to tell a story that for a while seemed lifeless. Check out this great post from debut author…

Behind the Scenes: "How Primary Sources Can Grow Your Nonfiction Nature Picture Book" by Lynn Street bethandersonwriter.com/2025/09/05/b...

Birds, Books, and Breaking Into Nonfiction Children's Publishing Author Lynn Street shares how an Audubon event inspired her narrative nonfiction picture books and how writers can break into the market.

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Picture book cover image with oak tree and blue jays. Link to Writer's Digest article in comment section with title Birds, Books, and Breaking Into Nonfiction Children's Publishing

Writer's Digest published my article on writing NF PB stories that balance facts with narrative. Link below. @steamteambooks.bsky.social @annehunterstudio.bsky.social @12x12challenge.bsky.social @redfoxliterary.bsky.social @kl4gm.bsky.social #bluejays #birds
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We interviewed @marciefatkins.bsky.social in the latest issue of #PaperBoundMag. Read all about her novel #OneStepForward free at paperboundmag.com/issues 💙

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I have an interview in this new issue!

I’m catching up on podcast episodes and highly recommend this episode for NF revision. Loved this @mcusolito.bsky.social and @kirstenwlarson.bsky.social

With the new issue just around the corner, we thought we'd remind you of all the authors we have featured!

We can't wait to share their interviews and articles very soon!

#KidLit #MGBooks #YABooks #AuthorInterview #WritingTips @marciefatkins.bsky.social @meganfreemanauthor.bsky.social

🎉COVER REVEAL📚👀

Welcome to a sneak peek of the brand new LIGHT & DARK issue of #PaperBoundMag! Packed full of brand new content, including book reviews, author interviews and writing tips (plus more!), we're so excited to share this with you SOON!

Massive thanks goes to 👇

So glad! I love the cover too! Feel
so lucky to have such a wonderful artist Babeth Lafon do the cover art!

Tomorrow is independent bookstore day and there are newly signed copies of One Step Forward at @onemorepagebooks.bsky.social

Book cover WEREWOLF HAMLET by Kerry Madden-Lunsford has white title font against a maroon theater-curtain background. Cover art shows a middle school aged boy with a black cape holding up a skull in a Hamlet-esque pose as his brother - morphing into a werewolf - sneaks out the window behind him.

Book cover ONE STEP FORWARD by Marcie Flinchum Atkins has white title font against a purple background and shows a young suffragist with a purple dress and a black hat with flowers getting ready to march.

Two recent multimodal MG novels that I love & recommend:

WEREWOLF HAMLET by @kerrymadden.bsky.social - heartbreakingly real & hopeful family story (partly in stage-play script!)

ONE STEP FORWARD by @marciefatkins.bsky.social - fantastic & well-researched verse novel about a teen suffragist.

Thank you!!

Salt City Verse review of "ONE STEP FORWARD" by Marcie Flinchum Atkins: Demonstrations are Nothing New. https://bit.ly/3Ghvn6U #ChildrensPoetry #Poetry4kids

Yellow witch hazel with red centers Haiku: Fireworks Witch hazel bursts Into the gray day Haiku & photo 2025 Marcie Flinchum Atkins

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cover of ONE STEP FORWARD by Marcie Flinchum Atkins shows a young woman wearing purple with a purple background with "votes for women" on a swirling ribbon with flowers

📚👍 ONE STEP FORWARD by @marciefatkins.bsky.social is an inspiring YA novel in verse about the tremendous sacrifices suffragists made so we can vote. Reading about their work motivates me to continue speaking up, imagining what they would say right now...
Beautiful cover by Babeth Lafon.
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Thank you so much!

Water-logged blooms Makeup streaked after A good cry Haiku and photo Marcie Flinchum Atkins Rain soaked red maple blossoms

I’m the #poetryfriday host this week. Hop on by and read the posts: www.marcieatkins.com/2025/03/27/p...

#haikusaturday

Three Picture Books for Women's History Month Meet three amazing women in three picture books for Women's History Month: Unshakable Eleanor, One Girl's Voice, and Hiding in Plain Sight.

⭐️Eleanor Roosevelt
⭐️Lucy Stone
⭐️Kate Warne
How many of these women from history have YOU heard of?
Check out Good Reads with Ronna's Women's History Month Roundup!
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Perfect Picture Book Friday: JOAN MITCHELL PAINTS A SYMPHONY: LA GRANDE VALLÉE SUITE Plus Giveaway Happy Perfect Picture Book Friday, dear friends! Today’s author is a wonderful kid lit friend of mine…and we are both part of the New England SCBWI chapter. I love her books…and she has graciously …

viviankirkfield.com/2025/03/28/p... A wonderful interview with two @picturebookgold.bsky.social members and a #Giveaway @viviankirkfield.bsky.social welcomes @lisaljrogers.bsky.social to share her book JOAN MITCHELL PAINTS A SYMPHONY: LA GRANDE VALLÉE SUITE 💙🎶💚

Honored to be interviewed by Andrea Wang on #picturebookbuilders and share a bit of the story behind the story for HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT.😍
And DON'T MISS THE GIVEAWAY of a copy of the book!📕🥳
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Yay! It's pub day for MAGIC IN A DROP OF WATER: HOW RUTH PATRICK TAUGHT THE WORLD ABOUT WATER POLLUTION! Beautifully illustrated by #SusanReagan. @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @penguinkids.bsky.social @steamteambooks.bsky.social #pbgreensteam #stembooksforkids #rockypondbooks