Wilson Middle School (Natick) Special Education Administrator Andrea Gellerstein and children’s book author Erin Dionne are not only friends, but library advocates! They joined us to discuss ideas professional and personal that can help our practice in school libraries. Erin is presenting at the Mass Reading Conference (https://www.massreading.org/-conference), being held just prior to the MSLA conference and also judged in the MSLA bookmark contest. We discuss genre, AI, educating the next generation of writers and the library’s role in these ideas.
Discussed stuff:
Montserrat College of Art, Prof. Erin Dionne, https://www.montserrat.edu/staff/erin-dionne/
Kate Messner, Trouble with Heroes
Renee Watson’s All the Blues in the Sky
The Civil War of Amos Abernathy Michael Leali
Special Teams by Fred Bowen
History Smashers, Kate Messner
Loree Griffin Burns, https://loreeburns.com/
Nancy Costaldo, https://nancycastaldo.com/
Melissa Stewart, https://melissa-stewart.com/
Brian Lies, https://www.brianlies.com/
Christine Soontornvat, All 13 https://soontornvat.com/
Christine Soontornvat, Wish in the Dark
Christine Soontornvat, Last Mapmaker
Erin Dionne, Shiver by the Sea, https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/VE6/shiver-by-the-sea/
Stephen King
The House with a Clock in Its Walls, John Bellairs
Fainth Erin Hicks, Universal Monsters: The Mummy https://www.skybound.com/universal-monsters-the-mummy/comics/issue-1
Brian “Smitty” Smith, Meet Ballpoint! https://conskipper.com/transformers-worst-bot-ever-meet-ballpoint-creators-brian-smitty-smith-and-marz-jr-the-conskipper-interview/
Hunger Games
David Kelly, Ballpark Mysteries, https://davidakellybooks.com/books/series/ballpark-mysteries/
Jarrett Lerner, https://jarrettlerner.com/
Anthropic AI Class Action Lawsuit, https://www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/
If Looks Could Kill, Julie Berry https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/If-Looks-Could-Kill/Julie-Berry/9781534470811
Eli Brown, Oddity, https://www.eli-brown.com/
Eli Brown, Mooncussers
Justina Ireland, Dread Nation, https://www.harpercollins.com/products/dread-nation-justina-ireland?variant=40827474313250
Warrior Girl Unearthed, Angeline Boulley, https://angelineboulley.com/
Shrinking, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15677150/
How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, https://www.netflix.com/title/81758849?fromWatch=true Derry Girls, https://www.channel4.com/programmes/derry-girls
