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Author, translator & Lego builder. Winner 2023 LA Times Book Prize for YA Literature for TORCH. Author of MOONWALKING (co-authored with Zetta Elliott) & EYES OPEN, both historical novels in verse.
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I live near several Gristedes supermarkets. They are already failing because they haven’t kept up with their competition. I’m surprised these stores didn’t close a year ago when better alternatives (that are now jam-packed) moved into the neighborhood.
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The “good guy with a gun” was a bad shot.
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Wait! Another well deserved accolade! I was responding to seeing THE SONGBIRD AND THE RAMBUTAN TREE on the Bank Street Best Children’s Books list. 😀📚🎉
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I was so excited to see that book on the list! Congratulations to all involved!
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That looks amazing and so important right now!
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Hi #kidlitchat! I’ve been busy with a couple of translation (Portuguese to English) projects, a picture book and a middle grade novel. Working ever so slowly on my own upper middle grade novel and pondering a picture book bio.
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Hopefully it will only be our tax dollars wasted because Poland votes the fascist down.
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She’s in Poland trying to convince their people to vote for a Putin-supporting fascist tomorrow.
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A dog? The one dog that wasn’t eaten?
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Unfortunately that decision to leave (a state or a country) is easier to make and carry out for someone who’s just starting out in adult life.
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Flying private is even more dangerous as we saw with that plane that crashed in San Diego last week due in part to a flawed weather forecast and runway lights not working in fog.
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Not much to celebrate this July 4, but we’re going to celebrate ourselves and our resilience.
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Cajun music stories are apparently the US equivalent of Swan Lake.
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Great news for the weekend! Congratulations! 🎊🎉
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Writers and artists have gone into exile in the past for all sorts of reasons. As someone who is now struggling to write under this regime for emotional reasons, I would rather see their work get done irrespective of where they’ve chosen to do it.
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Our streets have public works underneath them. They weren’t built for militaristic dictatorships.
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He’s shown over and over that he has nothing but contempt for his followers.
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What can they do in the US that they can’t do in Canada to oppose the regime?
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At least for now their work will still be available and we’ll have access to it within the US. And if that acccess is cut off, it only proves Shore, Snyder, and Stanley made the right decision to go where they could continue to pursue their projects in safety.
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My outlines are never that detailed. Once I wrote a detailed outline and it felt as if I’d already written the book. #kidlitchat
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Outlining really helps with pacing, just making sure enough is going n and the events are the consequence of my protagonist’s decisions and actions. #kidlitchat
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Yay! The books arrived!
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Yay! Looking forward to more Selah! And summer camp!
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It’s the mean girl phenomenon. The women who support Trump were the girl bullies who miss the opportunity to torment people with less social status in their narrow world.
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A wise decision and I expect many of their neighbors to be joining them within the next few years.
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Absolutely a must read. My late husband was the son of two parents who escaped the Holocaust, one barely, and his paternal grandmother and maternal grandfather were murdered by the Nazis. Plus the author of the piece has three children they need to protect.
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So he personally pocketed $1 million while costing the American taxpayers $8.2 million.
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Yes, if my husband and I had lived in the Czech Republic (which was our other option for the Fulbright fellowship) I would have been out of luck. #kidlitchat
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Hi #kidlitchat! For me it was a right place, right time opportunity. I’d just returned from living in Portugal, studying Portuguese, when I attended a meeting where Claudia Bedrick of Enchanted Lion spoke about publishing kids’ books in translation. And said she needed a translator from Portuguese!
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Although they also downplay the key differences that make it easier for Orban to hold power without resorting to state violence.
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He said he’d be a dictator on day one but never said he’d stop being a dictator.
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No, he wants to go full dictatorship like Putin. Hungary is somewhat constrained by EU rules that constrain Orban from arresting and disappearing political opponents. And Hungarians can flee more easily due to Schengen.
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Newt Gingrich used to teach there.
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That was fast! I hear the Liberals hadn’t even arrived at their victory party yet. ❤️🇨🇦