More from Christy Mandin: https://www.christymandin.com/

Instagram: @Christymandin

This week: An interview with Christy Mandin, author and illustrator of Millie Fleur’s Poison Garden. A brief look at Project 2025. How books are curated before making it to library shelves.

More from Eliot Schrefer: https://www.eliotschrefer.com/

Instagram: @schrefer

This week: Eliot Schrefer discusses his new book The Brightness Between Us. Amazon reveals a suite of new Kindle devices, including its first full-color e-ink display. South Carolina library puts a moratorium on purchasing new books for minors to comply with new, vaguely written law.

New Releases:

• A Map for Falasteen: A Palestinian Child’s Search for Home by Maysa Odeh, illustrated by Aliaa Betawi
• Love & Lattes by Beth Reekles
• Bye Forever, I Guess by Jodi Meadows

More from Robin Benway: https://www.robinbenway.com/

Instagram @Robinbenway

This week: An interview with Robin Benway for her new book The Girls of Skylark Lane. Alabama Library reclassifies young adult collection as fiction. An Arizona teacher is under police investigation after a parental complaint over a reading assignment.

Recent Releases:

• Find Her by Ginger Reno
• Girlmode by Magdalene Visaggio, illustrated by Paulina Ganucheau
• Sixteen Minutes by K.J. Reilly

Linda Sue Park, author of A Long Walk to Water with her newest book Gracie Under the Waves. Linda Sue is the founder of KiBooka, which highlights children's books by Korean-American authors, and a member of the advisory board for We Need Diverse Books.

New Releases:

• The Hill: Inside the Secret World of the U.S. Capitol by Kate Andersen
• Keeper Chance and the Conundrum of Chaos (Evil Villains International League #1) by Alex Evanovich
• Sylvia Doe and the 100-Year Flood by Robert Beatty

Links and resources available at patreon.com/thebookfaire

In the news this week: Amy Sarig King launces non-profit to honor daughter Gracie King: Gracie’s House as a way to connect LGBTQ+ youth with resources and communities and focusing on found families. Kidlit for Kamala releases a sign-on letter, reaching for support in endorsing Harris-Walz in the 2024 presidential election. Finalists for National Book Awards for Young People’s Literature have been announced.

Recent Releases:

• The Bakery Dragon by Devin Elle Kurtz
• Jasmine is Haunted by Mark Oshiro
• The Last Dragon on Mars by Scott Reintgen

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On a Wing and a Tear: https://bookshop.org/p/books/on-a-wing-and-a-tear-cynthia-l-smith/20986972?ean=9780062870001

• More about Cynthia Leitich Smith: https://cynthialeitichsmith.com/
• https://www.instagram.com/cynthialeitichsmith/
• https://www.facebook.com/CynLeitichSmith/

Recent Releases

• The Flicker by H.E. Edgmon
• Monster Movie! By Chuck Wendig
• Aisle Nine by Ian X. Cho

Headlines

• Alaska librarians hopeful state will restore ‘massive’ cut in vital grant: https://alaskapublic.org/2024/09/11/alaska-librarians-hopeful-state-will-restore-massive-cut-in-vital-grant/
• The Cincinnati Public Library is more than just bookshelves - it’s a lifeline: https://www.fox19.com/2024/09/13/cincinnati-public-library-is-more-than-just-bookshelves-its-lifeline/
• ALA Reports Year-Over-Year Decline in Book Bans: https://bookriot.com/ala-reports-year-over-year-decline-in-book-bans/
• ALA report findings: https://www.ala.org/news/2024/09/american-library-association-reveals-preliminary-data-2024-book-challenges

Songlight by Moira Buffini: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199531993-songlight

Recent Releases:

• Dear Dad: Growing Up with a Parent in Prison—and How We Stayed Connected by Jay Jay Patton with Kiara Valdez, illus. by Markia Jenai
• Gracie Under the Waves by Linda Sue Park
• On a Wing and a Tear by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Headlines:

• Local Libraries See Surge in Teen Readers This Summer Across Aroostook County: https://www.wagmtv.com/2024/09/04/local-libraries-see-surge-teen-readers-this-summer-across-aroostook-county/
• Publishers File Additional Amicus Brief Supporting First Amendment Rights of Llano County Library Patrons in Full Court Rehearing of Little v. Llano County: https://publishers.org/news/publishers-file-additional-amicus-brief-supporting-first-amendment-rights-of-llano-county-library-patrons-in-full-court-rehearing-of-little-v-llano-county/
• Students taking fight over 'book bans' into their own hands: https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/hudson-valley/news/2024/09/03/wny-students-take-fight-over--book-bans--into-their-own-hands

More on A.S. King: https://www.as-king.com/

Attack of the Black Rectangles: https://bookshop.org/p/books/attack-of-the-black-rectangles-a-s-king/17871252?ean=9781338680539

New Releases

• Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell, with illustrations by Ashley Mackenzie

• Library Girl by Polly Horvath

• Rosa by Starlight by Hilary McKay

• Splinter & Ash by Marieke Nijkamp

Resources:

• 2024 NBA Longlist for Young People's Literature Announced: https://bookriot.com/the-2024-national-book-awards-longlist-for-young-peoples-literature/

• How One Librarian Battled the Book Bans: Read an Excerpt of THAT LIBRARIAN By Amanda Jones: https://bookriot.com/that-librarian-by-amanda-jones-excerpt/

• Internet Archive loses copyright case against publishers: https://www.avclub.com/internet-archive-loses-appeal-against-publishers-copyright

• That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America: https://bookshop.org/p/books/that-librarian-the-fight-against-book-banning-in-america-amanda-jones/20968953?ean=9781639733538