
Teen Librarian Toolbox
Amanda MacGregor, September 22, 2023 | Guest Post
How to Find a Missing Girl can be fun, silly, and fast-paced and defined by grief and hope. The feelings are still there. They can co-exist. I know they do.
Amanda MacGregor, September 21, 2023 | Guest Post
Warrior Girl makes visible what has for centuries of schoolbooks been treated as invisible.
Amanda MacGregor, September 20, 2023 | Guest Post
Change will always be hard, but now I have a new mantra. If Kavi can do it, so can I. And so can you.
Amanda MacGregor, September 19, 2023 | Guest Post
It wasn’t until writing Amina’s story that I truly learned to believe that I am not at fault for not reacting a certain way to an event that should never have happened.
Amanda MacGregor, September 18, 2023 | Guest Post
In multi-voiced, first-person poems and dramatic scratchboard illustrations created by my son, Jeffery Boston Weatherford, Kin conjures the voices and stories of our ancestors and their contemporaries on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
Amanda MacGregor, September 15, 2023 | Guest Post
I hope the proliferation of fantasy books grounded in African societies will create familiarity for readers and a new shorthand. I hope it will inspire readers to learn more about the real places and people that underpin the stories.
Amanda MacGregor, September 13, 2023 | Guest Post
Only when people feel understood and seen, not when they are shamed, can conversation and change can truly begin.
Amanda MacGregor, September 13, 2023 | Guest Post
How lucky we are. So many stories out there, hiding in plain sight. Just waiting to be found.
Amanda MacGregor, September 8, 2023 | Guest Post
My roots, traditions, language and stories all come from that place, so in writing All That Shines, I was calling home. Trying to recreate those nights full of shimmering stars, meadows full of blue green grass you could get lost in and friendships that last forever.
Amanda MacGregor, September 7, 2023 | Guest Post
Your shelved stories won’t be lost to the dust. Rework bits of it into your new manuscript. Borrow entire chunks and passages freely (after all, it’s your own writing).
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