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1 post published by Gary Anderson during August 2025| What's Not Wrong?
In Idris Goodwin’s forthcoming young adult verse novel King of the Neuro Verse, it’s 1999 and Pernell is in summer school, again. His English teacher, Ms. Harding, dismisses his attention deficit d…| What's Not Wrong?
That rambunctious weasel from the Pop Goes the Weasel nursery rhyme just isn’t satisfied with jumping out of one nursery rhyme. In Betsy Bird’s Pop! Goes the Nursery Rhyme (Minerva, 2025), he keeps…| What's Not Wrong?
In the excellent new middle grade graphic novel Creaky Acres (Kokila, 2025), a parental job change means ten-year old Nora has to leave her friends, her school, and her beloved high-end horse facil…| What's Not Wrong?
On the Bright Side is much more than a YA rom-com with Deaf representation.| What's Not Wrong?
The narrator of Weshoyot Alvitre’s picture book Brave (Kokila, 2025) is a young Native boy wrestling with the importance of his long, braided hair. During his mother’s uncomfortable daily unknotting and braiding, she tells him how she wished to have … Continue reading →| What's Not Wrong?
How did I miss this one until now? I mean, it had tons of positive reviews, great buzz from other readers I know, and won prestigious awards. I even had a copy in hand from a Little Free Library donation. … Continue reading →| What's Not Wrong?
This piece originally appeared in slightly different form on the Cybils Awards blog as part of a series dedicated to the importance of the “fREADom” to read. My contribution to the acronym was “A …| What's Not Wrong?
Connor is beginning freshman year in a rough situation. His parents are separated. Connor lives with his mother but doesn’t get along with his father, although his mother has moved them to a differ…| What's Not Wrong?
Photo: Levine Querido Chooch is two years old, and he likes to help. The help of a two-year old isn’t usually all that helpful, but everyone gives him grace except Sissy, his older sister who has n…| What's Not Wrong?
Congratulations to this year’s Cybils Award Winner in Young Adult Speculative Fiction: Hearts Still Beating by Brooke Archer! I was honored to serve on the selection committee for this categ…| What's Not Wrong?
In Samira Ahmed’s This Book Won’t Burn (Little, Brown and Company, 2024), 18-year old high school senior Noor Khan moves from the liberal Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago to a conservative small t…| What's Not Wrong?
