Yapha Mason

BookBreak High School has officially launched with an amazing talk with @mattdelapena.bsky.social! He explored a variety of the themes in Mexican WhiteBoy, shared why he writes what he does, and left us with an important message to reluctant readers. Spanish subtitles are available on the recording.

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Librarians, Educators, Administrators:

Are you familiar with @bookbreak4schools.bsky.social?

If you're looking for a curriculum-aligned, affordable, and engaging way to bring virtual author visits to your students, I highly recommend checking them out.

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Beyond excited to have been interviewed for this article!

At BookBreak, we get what you need. Why? Because we’re founded by educators and school librarians for educators and school librarians! That’s why our author talks align perfectly with ELA themes and curriculum for K to 12! ✏️📚 We also provide pre- & post-talk lesson plans to keep the learning going!

Happy Book Birthday to:
Chef's Secret by @kellyyang.bsky.social
Becoming Boba by @joannahowrites.bsky.social

We can’t wait to read them! Thank you for being part of BookBreak!

Thank you, @aaslala.bsky.social for recognizing BookBreak as one of the 2025 Best Digital Tools for Teaching and Learning! We are truly honored. We could not have accomplished this without our amazing team and the support of our BookBreak subscribers. Congrats to all the 2025 awardees!

Are you looking for something new and meaningful to share with your students for Memorial Day? How about this short video from BookBreak, featuring Jeff Gottesfeld and his powerful book, Twenty-One Steps. Available for free this month.
For grades 3 & up. Feel free to share!
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Our mood today? Fantastic!! We had such a great time talking with Megan McDonald and celebrating Judy Moody's birthday. We learned all kinds of interesting facts about Judy and Stink and more of Megan's books. How many of the Judy Moody books have you read?

Beeps and boops, we had a great time chatting with Jasmine Warga today! She shared her inspiration for A Rover's Story and we learned about anthropomorphism, too. What was your favorite part?

Dealing with tight budgets? Join BookBreak to learn the basics of writing a literacy grant application for your school or library. This session will walk participants through the basics of writing a grant. An easy to follow guide will be provided as well.

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Come say hi, I’ll be in the booth most of the day!

Two amazing author talks this week! Elementary students get to hear from Joanna Ho and middle schoolers will hear from William Kamkwamba! We can't wait!

We had such a great time talking with Duncan Tonatiuh today, in both English and Spanish! He read from his book, showed us how to draw a dog, helped us pronounce the Nahuatl words in his book, and we even saw real pictures of the volcanoes! What was your favorite part?

That’s pretty much all I want to read right now. I’m leaning heavily into romances because of it.

A Vaccine Is Like a Memory Check out A Vaccine Is Like a Memory - <b>This timely book details the importance of vaccines and how they were developed throughout history, as well as how they work to protect your body and keep it ...

Picture book of the day - A VACCINE IS LIKE A MEMORY, by @rajanilarocca.bsky.social (who's an MD as well as a children's author!), illustrated by Kathleen Marcotte. Explaining the science behind vaccines is essential to combat fear & misinformation. bookshop.org/p/books/a-va...

Lori - elementary or middle school, if you had to pick only one?

We had such a great time talking with @erinentrada.bsky.social today! We played "Guess the Characters" and saw her notebook with notes on all of the characters in Hello, Universe. Have you read both of her Newbery Medal winners? They are amazing and so is she!

It's another great week at BookBreak! Lesa Cline-Ransome & James Ransome will be talking with our Elementary Schools and Marie Lu will be talking to Middle Schools. Which one will you be joining?

Happy 9th birthday to Daisy!! Still feisty enough for snow zoomies!

I love this book! I read it to my second graders every year!

I am really looking forward to this!!

Happy January! We are so excited to be speaking with four amazing authors this month!
Mélanie Watt for kindergarten and first grade
Mac Barnett for second and third grade
Cece Bell for fourth, fifth, and sixth grade
Jason Reynolds for seventh and eighth grade
Will we see you there?

Happy New Year! Wishing you health, happiness, and prosperity in 2025, with days full of laughter and love.

Happy Hanukkah to all who are celebrating! Sending love and light from our family to yours. And may all the hostages be released.

Congratulations!!

Introducing Jazzy!! She joined our family a week ago. Jazzy is a two year old chocolate lab, super sweet, very smart, and absolutely starved for attention. She is very small for a lab, about half the size of Daisy. She is settling in well, starting to play with Daisy, and obsessed with Parker.

They were amazing!! One of the best this year!

Went to review this on GoodReads. All reviews and ratings are shut down. Why? Shannon Messenger included some gay characters. A man in a park mentions a husband and a waitress mentions a wife. There are plenty of readers of this series who have two moms or two dads or have classmates who do.

There are 3 new Would You Read It? videos up on our middle school sites, bringing the total to 15! We love these books by @jamesponti.bsky.social, @tavaresbooks.bsky.social, and @katemessner.bsky.social. How many of the WYRIs have you watched?

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This was an amazing middle grade book about love, loss, and dealing with everyone around you changing. Highly recommended!