The Yarn
December 8, 2025 by Edith Campbell
It’s deeply personal for me that kids feel seen and connected. Books and schools are lifelines, and both failed me as a boy. Many still fail kids.
December 4, 2025 by Edith Campbell
Mendez structures The Story of My Anger so that it demonstrates ways to express anger, the danger of holding it all in, and the need for community.
November 28, 2025 by Edith Campbell
Hannah Sawyerr's second novel, Truth Is, is a pro choice novel where Truth finds her voice and learns how to step up, speak out, and make positive choices for herself.
November 19, 2025 by Edith Campbell
In typical McBride fashion, the lines and verses evoke a story that is more shadow play than structure.
October 28, 2025 by Edith Campbell
Nayeri is good at engaging setting, and these devices works especially well in a story about land.
October 23, 2025 by Edith Campbell
Zoboi, like Lukoff, pulls from personal reality to shape a world that exists in the margins that are formed to reduce outcomes. To define good and bad.
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October 16, 2025 by Edith Campbell
In reading stories about sleep for teens, they begin to feel less isolated as they maneuver their days through the foggy, unsettled feeling of perpetual tiredness.
October 12, 2025 by Edith Campbell
The book serves as a gateway to the horror genre for young readers.
October 4, 2025 by Edith Campbell
Let’s fight book bans on a personal level, one book at a time. Because bans aren't only about books; they’re working to erase people and their stories.
October 2, 2025 by Edith Campbell
It's always been about more than the books.
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Edith Campbell is Librarian in the Cunningham Memorial Library at Indiana State University. She is a member of WeAreKidlit Collective, and Black Cotton Reviewers. Edith has served on selection committees for the YALSA Printz Award, ALSC Sibert Informational Text Award, ALAN Walden Book Award, the Walter Award, ALSC Legacy Award, and ALAN Nielsen Donelson Award. She is currently a member of ALA, BCALA, NCTE NCTE/ALAN, REFORMA, YALSA and ALSC. Edith has blogged to promote literacy and social justice in young adult literature at Cotton Quilt Edi since 2006. She is a mother, grandmother, gardener and quilter.

