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Posts by Edith Campbell

December 8, 2025 by Edith Campbell

Not Gonna Lie, “Six Seven” and Slang Low-key gets Kids Attention

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

review: The Story of My Anger

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

review: Truth Is: A Novel in Verse

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.

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review: The Leaving Room

November 19, 2025 by Edith Campbell

In typical McBride fashion, the lines and verses evoke a story that is more shadow play than structure.

review: The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War Two Story

October 28, 2025 by Edith Campbell

Nayeri is good at engaging setting, and these devices works especially well in a story about land.

NBA Season: Books, not Basketball

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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Needed: Stories About Teens and Sleep

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.

review: The House Next Door

October 12, 2025 by Edith Campbell

The book serves as a gateway to the horror genre for young readers.

Challenge: Reading Beyond Our Personal Bans

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.

Considering Banned Books

October 2, 2025 by Edith Campbell

It's always been about more than the books.

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About Edith Campbell

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.

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