Get the buzz about libraries, learning and technology. en-us http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/620000062.html?nid=2693 Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information. Subject to its Terms of Use November 9, 2009 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/620000062/post/810050281.html?nid=2693 Carole Boston Weatherford is the award-winning author of more than 30 books, including Becoming Billie Holiday, Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her ... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/620000062/post/520050252.html?nid=2693 Dear Amy, I so much enjoy your blog on SLJ. I remember that you wrote a great piece about CLAUDETTE COLVIN: TWICE TOWARDS JUSTICE last spr... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/620000062/post/60050206.html?nid=2693 When I was a little girl, reading The Diary of Anne Frank, I saw myself as Anne. I did not see her color, nor did I see... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/620000062/post/460050046.html?nid=2693 How could an innocent book release party turn into another chapter in our W.A.R. series? Read on... (photo comes via Hachette Book... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/620000062/post/140050014.html?nid=2693 Linda Trice is the author of KENYA'S WORD (Charlesbridge Publishers). Briefly describe the impact racism had on you as a young person. ... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/620000062/post/650049865.html?nid=2693 The impact of racism as a young person: My first experience was in kindergarten when I realized that my hair was "different &quot... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/620000062/post/640049864.html?nid=2693 Christine Taylor-Butler lives in Kansas City with her husband and two daughters. She believes that every child is born with unique gifts to share. ... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/620000062/post/280049828.html?nid=2693 Gaylia is a retired teacher with thirty-one years of experience and is the author of George Crum and the Saratoga Chip ( Lee & Low Books) ... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/620000062/post/1590049759.html?nid=2693 Shane W. Evans is a multi-talented artist and visionary who combines his world travels with his art to influence creative expressi... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/620000062/post/1100049710.html?nid=2693 M. LaVora Perry’s MG, Taneesha Never Disparaging, is the first novel ever released by the Dalai Lama’s publisher, Wisdom Publications (... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/620000062/post/770049677.html?nid=2693 Eleanora E.Tate, author of eleven contemporary fiction, biographies, and historical fiction, brings an authentic “neighborhoods and communiti... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/620000062/post/530049653.html?nid=2693 Janet del Mundo, a sales and marketing manager from Children's Book Press sent the following e-mail to me: Amy, One of our books/autho... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/620000062/post/230049623.html?nid=2693 Kelly Starling Lyons is the author of One Million Men and Me (Just Us Books, 2007), NEATE: Eddie's Ordeal (Just Us Books, 2004) and two forth... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/620000062/post/70049607.html?nid=2693 Paula Chase’s Del Rio Bay series helped launch Kensington Books YA line in 2007. It’s among the first of a growing numbe... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/620000062/post/1030049503.html?nid=2693 Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich's debut novel, 8th GRADE SUPERZERO, is out January 1, 2010 (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic). &nbsp... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/620000062/post/790049479.html?nid=2693 "I want to create a change, to show the publishing companies that we want to see more YA books about people of color with colorful faces on th... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/620000062/post/1490049349.html?nid=2693 This is the first installment of quotes from the W.A.R. series. There is MORE (much more) to come... These quotes serve as great ... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/620000062/post/1770049377.html?nid=2693 Peter Marino is an English professor at Adirondack Community College in Queensbury, New York where he teaches writing, speech, and the... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/620000062/post/1370049337.html?nid=2693 Anna Levine began her studies at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec and received her MA in English Literature from the Hebrew Unive... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/620000062/post/1050049305.html?nid=2693 Alex Sanchez is the author of the Rainbow Boys trilogy, as well as the Lambda Award-winning middle-grade novel So Hard to Say. His latest novel is ... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/620000062/post/840049284.html?nid=2693 Uma Krishnaswami was born in India and now lives and writes in northwest New Mexico. She is the author of a dozen books for young re... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/620000062/post/460049246.html?nid=2693 Tony Medina is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Howard University. Briefly describe the impact racism had on you as a young person. ... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/620000062/post/1760049176.html?nid=2693 Vanessa Irvin Morris carries over 20 years’ experience serving in libraries: academic, special, school media, and public. Her research inte... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/620000062/post/1390049139.html?nid=2693 Let's face it: if there's one thing that racism isn't about, it's reason. If it was, we'd have eliminated it by now. Racism, of ... http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/620000062/post/480049048.html?nid=2693 (((DUE TO THE OVERWHELMING INTEREST IN W.A.R., MORE AND MORE WRITERS ARE SHARING THEIR STORIES - SO THE SERIES WILL CONTINUE!))) Racism isn't so...