If you are looking for a book for Women’s History Month AND Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, my book works perfectly for that. It also fits for National Women and Girls in Sports Day! Here is a compilation of some of the women featured. Each post includes a video. Changing the Game: Naomi Osaka…
Category: Reading Lists: Middle Grade
Middle grade chapter books for kids ages 9 through 14 and including 3rd grade books, 4th grade books, 5th grade books, 6th grade books, and 7th grade books.
Cover Reveal for WE SING FROM THE HEART!
I am so excited to reveal the cover for my first picture book with Red Comet Press, We Sing From the Heart: How The Slants® Took Their Fight for Free Speech to the Supreme Court! Illustrator Victor Bizar Gómez brings Simon Tam’s story to life in his nearly eight year battle to get the right…
8 Books For Aspiring Writers and 5 Book Giveaway of UNSTUCK by Barbara Dee!
Please welcome my guest author, Barbara Dee. She may have never experienced serious writer’s block as this is her fourteenth middle grade novel! Her newest book is about writer’s block and she offers a list to help with that, Books for Aspiring Writers. Unstuck by Barbara Dee Barbara Dee channels middle school in this…
50+ Great DIVERSE Early Chapter Books
I’m excited to be judging first-round Cybils this year in the categories of Easy Readers and Early Chapter Books. There were over 50 entrants for Early Chapter Books this year and we just finished picking the shortlist. Now, round 2 judges will take over to pick the final winners — 1 in each category! There…
Mitali Perkins Hope in the Valley Book Launch at Newtonville Books
Mitali Perkins returns to Newtonville Books, her previous home, with her book launch for her lauded middle-grade book, Hope in the Valley. Here, she’s in conversation with Editor Emeritus Roger Sutton, the editor-in-chief of The Horn Book, Inc., from 1996 to 2021. Mitali reads the first chapter of Hope in the Valley. Q&A with Mitali…
7 Children’s Books on Armenia + 2 Signed Book GIVEAWAY!
Please welcome my guest author, Joan Schoettler, with her 7 children’s books on Armenia, Celebrating Armenia and the Armenian Culture through Picture Books and Middle Grade Novels. October is Armenian Cultural Month so this is a great time to learn about Armenia’s rich cultural heritage. We are giving away two signed copies of The Honey…
Please support #BooksForMaui auction
Please support #BooksForMaui auction here. I’m donating a book featuring Native Hawaiian athletes Natasha Kai-Marks and Anona Napoleon. Evelyn Tokue Kawamoto, Michelle Wie & Liane Lissa Sato are also from Hawaii. My other personal connections to Hawaii include my husband who played varsity golf for the University of Hawaii at Manoa and my great uncle…