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December 3, 2024 by Edith Campbell

Review: A Constellation of Minor Bears

These three teens know each other so well! In Constellation they are each facing situations and decisions that are difficult for them individually and impossible collectively.

November 30, 2024 by Edith Campbell

M’DEAR

M’DEAR is Midwinter Drop Everything and Read. I hope you'll join us!

November 22, 2024 by Edith Campbell

cover reveal: Legendary FryBread Drive-In

The shining light of the drive-in evokes the warmth, healing, and joy found in the collected writings. Details in the artwork will feel familiar to Native readers and offer a rare invitation to non-Natives.

Another Way Forward

November 16, 2024 by Edith Campbell

As you keep faith as readers, I’ll keep faith as a writer to continue writing and showing the places where our stories interconnect. Not everyone is on the same page, but we all HAVE a page. Never forget: We are who makes the story worth reading.

Libraries as Community Points

November 15, 2024 by Edith Campbell

Vigo County Public Library is joining the growing trend of libraries responding to climate change while at the same time, users are provided with information, materials, and communities in unique ways that remove barriers to success.

How You Living?

November 6, 2024 by Edith Campbell

Let's think about our personal legacy, how we're living, and making decisions that affect others. What expectations do we have of our leaders in that regard?

Electing Care

November 4, 2024 by Edith Campbell

While we might not have the capacity right now to do the long-term work to relieve the sources of our current stress, we can do a few things to feel a little better in the short term, particularly at work, where we’ve been so careful about what we say.

Quick Reviews and Previews

October 20, 2024 by Edith Campbell

I’ve been reading and listening to quite a few books lately, but not taking the time to review them. I'm taking the time today!

Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez: Latine Heritage Month in the Library

October 14, 2024 by Edith Campbell

The library didn’t give my mother, my sister, and me our strength. But the library was a place where we could learn to unlock our power ourselves.

Lucia Gonzalez: Latine Heritage Month in the Library

October 10, 2024 by Edith Campbell

Taking those books home allowed me to escape the entrapment of those silent days when I could not communicate in English. I will never forget the feeling of joy upon receiving that first library card!

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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