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My Semester at Worlds of Words: The Intern’s Edit 

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My home has always been among the books. And as Worlds of Words’ Online Content Marketing Intern, I have truly felt at home. Not just because of the 40,000+ books,

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Hop on the Magic School Bus!: The Crazy, Wonderful World of STEM Children’s Books

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By: Mandy Becker I live in Arizona, a state well known for its beautiful cactus, its desert “dry heat,” its authentic Mexican food and, less positively, its consistently low-ranking education

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The Music of What Happens: Finding Strength in the Chaos

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Bill Konigsberg recently published The Music of What Happens and has published a book that’ll make readers really think. This book comes after a list of already successful LGBT young

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Keeping up with the Kids: Navigating the Minefield of Diversity in Children’s Literature Part 2

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In last week’s article we introduced some of the foundational thinking associated with Diversity in children’s and young adult literature, and how the evolution of this topic has begun to

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Keeping up with the Kids: Navigating the Minefield of Diversity in Children’s Literature Pt. 1

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Part 1 There is no doubt that children’s literature has grown to enormous proportions in the world of popular fiction, especially with the Young Adult craze that has exploded over

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Falling in Love with Middle Grade Books

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I’m not sure how or why, but I didn’t read many middle grade novels between the ages of eight and twelve—the target age range for these books. I started out

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