Michelle Glatt

I saw this film at the @illibraryassoc.bsky.social conference a few months ago. It's informative, inspiring, and often infuriating.

Bookish - new show on PBS

Cover for HOLDING ON FOR DEAR LIFE by Dusti Bowling, featuring a boy riding a bucking bull. Music notes surround his head.

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HOLDING ON FOR DEAR LIFE
by Dusti Bowling
*middle grade, realistic fiction
*audio from Libro FM - free Educator ALC

Cover for MY SO-CALLED FAMILY by Gia Gordon, featuring a drawing of a middle schooler, tennis balls, and marbles inside a glass jar

15.
MY SO-CALLED FAMILY
by Gia Gordon
*middle grade, realistic fiction
*REREAD for school (student) book club & author visit ❤️
*book from personal collection

J.D. Vance Has a Burnt Monkey Testicle Problem The GOP Ohio Senate nominee's investment in a biotech firm that does testing on live animals is raising questions about his true values BY TIM DICKINSON OCTOBER 25, 2022

We all forgot about this but this is probably the best headline to explain the guys whole vibe

I liked that it was a mystery--and also not. You learn so much about the people in her community through Miv's lens.

Book cover for HALFWAY TO SOMEWHERE by Jose Pimienta, featuring a Latinx middle school student wearing gray shorts and a green t-shirt with a sunflower on it. They are walking and looking back with a slight smile. The background is in 3 parts: road, family mountain hike, campus buildings at KU

14.
HALFWAY TO SOMEWHERE
by Jose Pimienta
*graphic novel, realistic fiction
*2026 Stonewall Book Award - Children's Winner
*print book from school library

She’s asking about the Epstein victims
And
He’s telling @kaitlancollins.bsky.social to smile. I want to scream.

Book cover of THE LIST OF SUSPICIOUS THINGS by Jennie Godfrey, featuring page ripped out of notebook and crow sitting on milk bottle carrier

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THE LIST OF SUSPICIOUS THINGS
by Jennie Godfrey
*mystery, coming of age, historical fiction (1970s England)
*multiple POV
*read for my book club
*large-cast audio from hoopla

January 2026 Reading Wrap-Up from StoryGraph. Highest rated reads: BYE FOREVER, Guess; Popcorn, Worst-Case Collin

Book covers for 12 books read in January 2026: Spirit Sleuths Krampus Popcorn The Bletchley Riddle Three Summers Bye Forever, I Guess The Enigma Girls Radar and The Raft Through Gates of Garnet and Gold The New Girl Worst-Case Collin Keeping Pace

I read 12 books in January 2026!
Adult stuff: The Wayward Children is one of my all-time favorite series!
MG stuff: Keeping Pace & Bye Forever, I Guess are sweet rom coms
#readingchallenge #booksky #storygraph

2025 Outstanding Comics Award for Adults

Here are the winners in the adult categories:

2025 Outstanding Comics Award for Children

Here are the winners/honors in the children's categories:

The Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table announce ‘The Boy Wonder,’ ‘Raised by Ghosts’ and ‘Teen Titans’ win the inaugural Outstanding Comics for Young Adults Awards The Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table announce ‘The Boy Wonder,’ ‘Raised by Ghosts’ and ‘Teen Titans’ win the inaugural Outstanding Comics for Young Adults Awards

So excited that ALA'S GNCRT has created the Outstanding Comics Award!
My TBR just exploded with alllllll the works featured in allllllll the age categories!
Here are the inaugural selections in the Young Adult category.
I ADORE the fiction honor HUNGER'S BITE by Taylor Robin

#BookSky

So well deserved! I CANNOT stop telling my junior high students how much I love your book.

Book cover for KEEPING PACE by Laurie Morrison, featuring two young teens in workout clothes running up a path through a green space. Tag line: If winning isn't everything...then what is?

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KEEPING PACE
by Laurie Morrison
*middle grade realistic fiction, #youngteenlit
*print book from school library

In tumultuous times, the best books are beacons, shining light on teens thinking for themselves, fighting against evil, and having empathy for others. We are proud to announce the First Annual Young Teen Lit Top 10 Award List. For a printable version, head to bit.ly/YTLTop102026.
#youngteenlit

THIS!!!!!

Book cover for THROUGH GATES OF GARNET AND GOLD by Seanan McGuire, featuring marblesque statues on pedestals and Nancy's Door

11.
THROUGH GATES OF GARNET AND GOLD
by Seanan McGuire
*dark fantasy, Wayward Children series--one of my all-time favorites
*audio from Libby - I will ALWAYS listen to these novellas because I fell in love with them during the first audio

NRA accidentally forgets to rise up against tyrannical government

Post from Pete Buttigieg that reads: If there was ever a moment for libertarians and conservatives to step up and join the rest of us, we’re in it. Americans have to unite and stop this descent from a freedom-loving nation into the kind of place where masked, militarized government agents are sent to politically noncompliant areas to roam the streets, terrorize civilians, and deploy violence with impunity.

Transphobia is a cancer of the heart and mind.

It is a useless fear, based on ignorance and cruelty.

Trans people are not responsible for a single one of the problems we face.

Do the world a favor and grow the fuck up.

BYE FOREVER, I GUESS by Jodi Meadows, featuring six drawn figures--three depict typical 8th graders, three are those characters dressed as their online fantasy game personas

10.
BYE FOREVER, I GUESS
by Jodi Meadows
*middle grade realistic fiction
*perfect meet cute / rom com for this age group
*great modeling of consent
*print book from school library

Liam’s mom dressed him in all those layers to keep her little boy warm and safe in this frigid weather, packed his book-bag w/ everything he’d need for a good day at school, and then our govt stole him out of their driveway. Used her little boy as bait. These people are monsters.

Just sitting here thinking about the magnificence of Laurie Halse Anderson. Some of our 7th graders are starting a book study of Fever 1793, and I can't wait for them to fall in love with her work. Though my absolute favorite of hers is Wintergirls.
#booksky

When Wink was new, he did a Google meet with one of our 6th grade teams. He was so genuine and funny and shared so much of himself and his work. The kids just loved it.

Book cover for POPCORN by Rob Harrell, featuring half of the face of a boy wearing glasses, yellow background with white drawings of popcorn and squiggles, also award seal for Snyder Family Book Award

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POPCORN
by Rob Harrell
*middle grade realistic fiction, illustrated
*Snyder Family Book Award
*print book from school library

Book cover for WORST-CASE COLLIN by Rebecca Caprara, featuring a boy swimming in blue water about an orange-yellow house filled with desert animals, plants, a bike, but dark orange flames are rising from the bottom

8.
WORST-CASE COLLIN
by Rebecca Caprara
*middle grade realistic fiction
*novel-in-verse
*audio via hoopla - public library services rock!

This stuff just writes itself 😁

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at SNCC rally at Beulah Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, March 16, 1965. Photographed by Glen Pearcy.

March to the state courthouse led by Dr. King, James Forman, Rev. Abernathy, John Lewis, Montgomery, Alabama, March 17, 1965. Photographed by Glen Pearcy.

On this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, enjoy images from The Glen Pearcy Collection at the Library of Congress. A rare, unguarded public moment of Dr. King smiling at a March 1965 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee meeting—a snapshot of joy amid a historic civil rights struggle—is a highlight.

To say Donald Trump is a mad King greatly understates the situation