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Kirkus publishes first review of Civic Minded
The new issue of Kirkus Reviews dropped today, and the magazine had a very nice review of my new book Civic Minded: What Everyone Should Know about the US Government. And it was a very nice review; when a top review magazine says every American should read your book, that’s pretty great. An excerpt: The […]
Junior Library Guild highlights Civic Minded
It’s always cool when one of my books is featured by the Junior Library Guild, which selects and recommends top books for young readers. And Civic Minded is one of its highlighted books for 2024.
Updated date for Civic Minded book launch
The first in-person event for my new book Civic Minded: What Everyone Should Know about the US Government has been moved one day, and will now be held Wednesday, October 2 instead of October 1. It’ll still feature a discussion about the book with my excellent author friend David Nelson and then a signing. You […]
New teaching guides available (for free)
As we did with previous books, my publisher and I created free Teaching Guides with some ideas for teachers and librarians on how to use Votes of Confidence and Civic Minded in the classroom. You can download them for free. Click here for the Votes of Confidence teaching guide and click here for the Civic Minded teaching guide.
New Shepherd article on favorite recent reads
A few weeks ago, Shepherd asked me to write up some of my favorite short-story collections. With Animal Husbandry (and Other Fictions) available for preorder wherever you buy books, the site also asked me to pick a few of my favorite books I read in the past year, and I picked works by Daniel Mason, Laurent Binet, and Peter Beagle. Here’s the […]
Visited Votes of Confidence at Horizon Books
When traveling, I usually try to pop into good independent bookstores and, if possible, to find my books on their shelves (I’m eight books into my career and still think it’s cool to see them in stores). This week, we’re in northern Michigan and I visited the excellent Horizon Books in downtown Traverse City and […]
School Library Journal highlights Civic Minded
As part of its Teen Librarian Toolbox, the excellent School Library Journal highlighted some of my publisher, Lerner Publishing’s, fall catalog. The article describes several books, and my upcoming Civic Minded: What Everyone Should Know about the US Government (out October 1 and available for preorder from Bookshop, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Target, Walmart, etc.) […]
