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- ReadingWithPictures Resources and research for using comics and graphic novels in the classroom
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- Accepting Dad Dad supporting his gender variant child. Lots of resources.
- Queer YA: Fiction for LGTBQ Teens Review blog of fiction of interest for Queer teens.
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- Reading Rants! Out of the Ordinary Teen Booklists! All sorts of interesting book lists and links.
Category Archives: Interviews
Interview with Franny Billingsley, Author of Chime
It’s taken me a couple days to get this up because the little foster boy who my partner and I had for a while has suddenly popped back up in our life–we’ve got him full-time for the rest of the … Continue reading →
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Tagged attachment, chime, dissociation, emotional abuse, Franny Billingsley, interview, The Folk Keeper, VCFA
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Interview with Nancy Garden
I had the wonderful good fortune to meet Nancy Garden at the New England Regional SCBWI conference in May. Her groundbreaking book Anne On My Mind, published in 1982–the year I was born–was the first book for teens that actually showed … Continue reading →
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Tagged Annie On My Mind, bullying, GLBTQ, Lambda Literary, Nancy Garden, SCBWI, Stonewall Awards
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