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When You Donât Get it Right  (or That Time I Appropriated Spirit Animal)
Dear Reader,Â
Iâve had an incredible year. I donât expect the world to like me or my books, but I have been completely overwhelmed by the love shown Dumplinâ in the last year. As weâre coming up on one year since publication and with Dumplinâ still on shelves, I must tell you that I have one deep regret.Â
There is a line written into one of the final scenes of Dumplinâ that I didnât think twice about when I was approving my final pass pages. Blame it on pop culture if you want. I blame it on my own ignorance, which doesnât make it any less of a mistake.
In one of the final scenes of the book, Ellen, Willowdeanâs BFF, has this line:Â âOh my God,â says El. âI think you might be my spirit animal.â (page 361)
Since the publication of Dumplinâ, Iâve watched lots of great and smart conversations take place about how this phrase is blatant cultural appropriation, and there is no denying that I messed up. I assumed that all I could do was own up to this any time a reader brought it my attention.
I was reminded of this when I saw a script for Dumplinâ and the phrase popped up again and I asked that it be removed. I felt it was the least I could do. Then last week, a person I follow on Twitter was reading Dumplinâ and said something about the line. I normally donât interact with reader commentary if I have not been tagged, but I figured WTH since Jeanne and I follow each other and are fairly friendly. Angie Manfredi, a librarian I greatly admire, jumped in and asked if I thought about asking Harper to change the line in future reprints. Debbie Reese also reached out and shared with me an experience she had with an author who had changes made to future prints.
I have to be honest and tell you that this hadnât even occurred to me as a possibility, but I am never opposed to asking. So I thought about how I would rewrite that line if I could and I reached out to my editor. My editor, yâall. Alessandra Balzer. Sheâs amazing. She and her assistant acted immediately and I am so happy to tell you that the line will be changed in future hardback reprintings and in every paperback.
I am ecstatic and thankful. It would be great if I hadnât messed up in the first place, but that isnât the case.Â
The gist: The phrase âspirit animalâ is not mine to use. I deeply regret having used it in Dumplinâ and I apologize to anyone I have hurt or belittled in doing so. I canât say I wonât ever screw up again, but I can say that Iâm listening and aware and willing to own my mistakes. Thank you to everyone who has helped me talk through this and has helped me correct this mistake.
Julie
âEvery kid deserves to be the hero of their own story.âÂ
WNDB is so proud to present this video of Young Adult authors talking about why they write and who they write for.
My publisher, First Second Books, is celebrating 10 years of making books. I first encountered them as an attendee at San Diego Comic-Con in 2009. I remember finding Gene Luen Yangâs American Born Chinese, and how deeply it impacted me. It shifted my ideas of what comics could be. Iâve picked up a few of First Secondâs books every year since, as a fellow exhibitor in San Diego.
I created this comic to illustrate how I see myself in each of their titles - and it was hard to narrow it down! I didnât get to include This One Summer, Three Shadows, Same Difference, Battling Boy, Sailor Twain, Sumo, The Undertaking of Lily ChenâŚagh! I love them all!
As I wrote my forthcoming graphic novel, Pashmina, I had First Second on my mind. Their titles are diverse and literary. When my agent asked me about pitching, I told her that if First Second bought my book, I would be ecstatic⌠and I still am!
Thank you and congrats, First Second, for 10 years of publishing wonderful books. I am so happy to be part of your family of authors!

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At Boston Public Library's Teen Central.
Here are some of the many books honored by the American Library Association with awards this morning, including the prestigious Caldecott Award (Finding Winnie, illustrated by Sophie Blackall) and Newbery Award (Last Stop on Market Street, written by Matt de la Pena).
For a full list of these award-winning books for kids, visit the American Library Association website, and check our catalog to read them for yourself.
Culturally, we reward men who perform âpink collarâ type work. Male elementary school teachers, male nurses, and even male librarians elicit excitement since theyâre working in roles traditionally performed by women. The same can be said about the YA writing world (and the broader kid lit world, as evidenced by an October 2015 article in New York magazine about male childrenâs book authors as the âideal crush objectâ). Men who write for youth are seen as special, as honorable, even if we donât come out and say it explicitly. Theyâre doing something unexpected. The same thing happens in online book spaces. When YA authors Andrew Smith and Tommy Wallach took turns leaving Twitter earlier this year because it became an uncomfortable space for them when their words were being talked about as problematic, readers rallied. âKeep YA Kindâ took hold on social media in March this year, with readers changing their pictures to hold up books by Smith and encourage the community to be kind, rather than criticize. Support like this, though, didnât extend when Anne Ursu, Justina Ireland, Katherine Locke, or other female writers were pushed off social media for being harassed because they chose to speak up and out against problematic work. Women are expected to be kind, generous, and nice, so when they choose instead not to be, they âdeserveâ what they get. It shouldnât be either/or. No one should be above criticism on these platforms, just as no one should be bullied on them. But in the YA world, we protect one gender more than others.
Opinion: Do We Honor Girlsâ Stories? The Double Standard of YA Lit by Kelly Jensen (via tubooks)
Every month, the rad recommenders of the New York Public Library select 100 (one hundred!) great books to feature on their new Staff Picks site. We think thatâs pretty awesome, so weâve asked them to share one highlight with us each month.

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Letâs celebrate all things girlsâ stories.Â
Because 2015 has been an amazing year for feminist YA fiction, I want to give away a 9-book collection of some of the best in female-driven narratives.
Enter to win this collection here:Â http://stackedbooks.org/2015/10/giveaway-a-2015-feminist-bookshelf.htmlÂ
Iâll pick a US winner at the end of November. Good luck & happy reading!Â
A reminder this giveaway is going on and would be PERFECT for those of you doing the #readwomen challenge. Iâll pick a winner this weekend, and Iâll pull the book list together shortly.Â
âItâs art imitating life, really,â says Code Switchâs Karen Grigsby Bates. âAll American Boys is a young adult novel that looks at a specific instance of police brutality from the perspectives of two high school classmates: Rashad, who is savagely beaten by a local policeman who (wrongly) suspects him of shoplifting and assaulting a white woman, and Quinn, who sees the beating and initially pretends he didnât. Itâs a fictional reflection of real-life police encounters with young black men that ended badly.â
Check out her full story here.
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You know youâve been at the books too long when @jstor becomes a part of your sex life.
Evolution of JSTOR and chill
Fantastic comment game.
I relate to this on a spiritual level.
This method of âBrain Motivationâ has been proven highly effective [by science].
just in case you had any doubts

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I found the cutest bookmarks aty library #librarylove #bookmarks #Books #bookstagram #Bookworm #booknerd
Amanda Palmer, eight months pregnant and exquisitely painted, recreates Damien Hirstâs Verity statue (top) in a performance art piece for the New York Public Libraryâs childrenâs book drive. Proud papa-to-be Neil Gaiman (bottom) extends a loving hand to this modern-day nude descending a staircase, after donating a copy of his own charming childrenâs book, Chuâs Day.Â
For more of Palmerâs beautiful bibliophilia, treat yourself to her bewitching poetry readings of Polish Nobel laureate Wislawa Szymborska.
I did this yesterday. More photos & blog to come ⌠and we collected hundreds and hundreds of books. thanks to everyone supporting my patreon for making such weirdness possible.
That is stunning and beautiful and touching and makes this librarians heart grateful.
This is stunning - breathtaking. I canât stop staring at the photos.