Kyle Lukoff’s Too Bright to See (2021)
I don’t know if the title of Kyle Lukoff’s debut middle-grade novel Too Bright to See (2021) was inspired by Lesléa Newman’s Too Far Away to Touch (1998), but I […]
J. P. Miller’s Bayard Rustin (2021)
Bayard Rustin (2021), written by J. P. Miller and illustrated by Markia Jenai, is a Rourke Education Media publication. The press creates texts that align with curriculum standards and primarily […]
Jimmy Matejek-Morris’s My Ex-Imaginary Friend (2021)
Jimmy Matejek-Morris’s My Ex-Imaginary Friend (2021) creatively explores the deliberate silences and painful experiences of invisibility that comprise one young boy’s childhood. Ten-year-old Jack has a part-walrus, part-human imaginary friend […]
Eden Royce’s Root Magic (2021)
Eden Royce’s Root Magic (2021) brilliantly balances some of my favorite things: smart social commentary, beautiful writing, and horror. The horror in this middle grade novel is as much a […]
Cybils 2021
My adventure as a 2021 Cybils Round One Panelist for the Middle Grade Speculative Fiction Category has begun and I’m already having so much fun! I’m loving Eden Royce’s Root […]
Alyssa Bermudez’s Big Apple Diaries (2021)
Book review by Raise Them Righteous guest blogger Eleanor Hamilton Warren. Eleanor is a 9 year-old reader living in Dallas, TX. This is her first book review for the blog. […]
Sharice Davids & Nancy K. Mays’ Sharice’s Big Voice: A Native Kid Becomes a Congresswoman (2021)
Sharice’s Big Voice: A Native Kid Becomes a Congresswoman (2021) is an autobiographical account of one of the very first Native women elected to Congress. The picture book is co-written […]
Rob Sanders’ Mayor Pete: The Story of Pete Buttigieg (2020)
There’s always a too small town and a white boy with big dreams and unknown potential. Or at least that appears to be how the small, but steadily growing field […]
(I Just Can’t Get No) Satisfaction: Locating Longing in Benjamin’s The Arcades Project and Our Queer Kid Lit
By Jennifer Miller, University of Texas at Arlington Presented at Children’s Literature Association Conference 2021 Contact: jennifermiller@uta.edu/@jlmiller516 I. Introduction My presentation, “(I Just Can’t Get No) Satisfaction: Locating Longing in […]
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