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The best Erin Soderberg Downing book yet! You will love Avery & Jax, cousins who stumble across a mystery that will either tear their family apart or bring them together. The narrative alternates between the two as they search for clues & learn about themselves. Generational MG novel!

Read.
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Buy.
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Share.
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Celebrate
Celebrate books.
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California raw milk producer says RFK Jr. has encouraged him to apply for FDA position The California raw milk producer who has issued several product recalls for bird flu has has applied for an advisory role at the Food and Drug Administration.

Yum yum.

"The raw milk producer at the center of several bird-flu recalls says RFK Jr. has encouraged him to apply for a position at the FDA.

"The recalls were the result of positive tests for H5N1 bird flu among his cows. His farms have since been quarantined...”

www.latimes.com/environment/...

I loved what Ada Limon had to say about writer's block in her talk at #NCTE24 today: "It is not so much that you don't have anything to say; it's that you have so much to say."

We have to take time to sort through the overwhelmingness of it all, time to let one good idea at a time shine through.

Cover art for the following children's-YA books: The Orbis Pictus Award STEALING LITTLE MOON: THE LEGACY OF AMERICAN BOARDING SCHOOLS by Dan SaSuWeh Jones (Scholastic Focus) 2025 Notable Books in Poetry A PLANET IS A POEM by Amanda West Lewis & Oliver Averill (Kids Can Press) GREAT GUESTS: WINDS OF THE WORLD AND THE SCIENCE BEHIND THEM by Melanie Crowder, Megan Benedict & Khoa Le (MIT Kids Press) BLACK STAR by Kwame Alexander (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) BLACK GIRL YOU ARE ATLAS by Renée Watson & Ekua Holmes (Kokila) LOUDER THAN HUNGER by John Schu (Candlewick)

Congrats to the winners and honorees of the NCTE Children’s Book Award and Poetry Awards: ncte.org/awards/ncte-...

Book cover THE TROUBLE WITH HEROES shows a surly 7th grade boy with a backpack and FDNY baseball hat standing on top of a mountain, looking into the distance. A drooly Bernese Mountain Dog looks up at him adoringly.

Time for a book giveaway!

If you'd like me to mail you an advance copy of my Apr. '25 MG novel in verse THE TROUBLE WITH HEROES, follow & share this post. Bonus entry if you also reply w/ a pic from a recent hike!

I'll draw winners on 12/1.

About the book:
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