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Principal Woodson is named after Jacqueline Woodson, who still inspires me with every book she writes.
Ms. Guy is named after Rosa Guy, the author of Ruby, considered the first openly queer Black YA novel.
Sandra Scoppettone, Michael Cart, Francesca Lia Block, M. E. Kerr, and Jenny Pausacker, all of whom have done mighty work in building ...
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want to give a special shout-out to Alex Gino, whose middle-grade novels are a joy to me as an editor and an inspiration to me as an author.
When people attack books, they think the books will not be able to defend themselves. Luckily, there are many, many people who step in to defend not just the books but the people in the community whom the books are about. Authors, myself included, are emboldened to write freely because we know there are such fierce defenders of the right to read. Thank you to the National Coalition Against Censorship (ncac.org), the Freedom to Read Foundation (ftrf.org), and the American Library Association and its Office for Intellectual Freedom (ala.org), which are among the many fantastic organizations on
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Instead, they should be defined by the millions of readers of all ages who take them to heart. Like a first Pride parade, or the first time you make a friend who identifies the same way you do, the first time you find yourself in a book is a powerful moment—and many of us have taken the power we’ve experienced as readers and used it to create our own stories. This path can be as wide as we make it, and as long as we want it to be. Be a part of what comes next.
