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• I just had an awesome Skype talk about SCARS with Dee Schmidt Kramer’s students who read SCARS as an independent reading book at Silver Creek High School in Indiana. The students asked such intelligent, thoughtful questions afterwards. I told them they could ask me anything and I meant it. And despite some technical difficulties – I couldn’t see or hear them on Skype but they could see and hear me – it went really well. Dee helped solve it in a creative way, using her cell so I could see the students, typing their questions in Skype, and one student turned Dee’s cell to landscape mode so I could see them all. I enjoyed it so much. I could see them taking it all in, and caring about it. I delight in readers caring about books – and authors! Petal also made an appearance! (laughing) She’s always by my side, and at the end when I picked her up and she rested her head on my shoulder they awwed. (Smiling) . . . #authorskype #skypeauthorvisit #deeschmidtkramer #SilverCreekHighSchool #cherylrainfield #YAwriter #LGBTQwriter #booknerd #bookworm #ireadYA #survivor #feminist #YAlit #YAbooks #YAlitmentalhealth #yabookrecs #bookstagram #selfharm #sexualabuse #trauma #healing #MeToo
• I also put up my Christmas tree the other day, and then finally decorated it today. It is probably too full of things but I love them all. I have fairies and unicorns and a pegasus; bookish decorations, especially kid-lit ones; superheroes; rainbows; and ornaments from people that I care about or that I bought when I was with them. And of course Petal! All of them have meaning to me. Some of them are for child parts of me that didn’t get to play when I was a kid, some of them are for the writer in me, and there are so many others. I think it’s important that we do what makes us feel good. So it might not look like a tree out of a magazine, but it’s a tree that feels right to me. What kind of decorations do you like to put on a tree, or have around during the holidays? #christmastree #writerchristmas #cherylrainfield #YAwriter #LGBTQwriter #booknerd #bookworm #ireadYA #survivor #feminist
• I spent time with the four little girls this afternoon. I love them so much. And I love that they love me. I try to go see them once a month. I will visit them again on December 24th. They would happily have me over for Christmas but I think I get to sad and down on that day and I’d rather not. It’s been our tradition to have me over there on the 24th the last few years and I enjoy it. I love them all. #chosenfamily #friendsarefamily #cherylrainfield #YAwriter #LGBTQwriter #booknerd #bookworm #ireadYA #survivor #feminist
• Dear readers, every year Toronto’s children’s bookstore Mabel’s Fables does something special – they invite booklovers to donate their favorite book to a child in need. If you go into the bookstore you will see hundreds of angel ornaments hanging from the ceiling with a child’s name on it who needs a good story. @mabelsfablesbookstore gift wraps the books and delivers them to Social Services in time for the holidays. What a special gift for a hurting child. If you’d like to take part you can call them up to buy a book for a child who needs one. www.mablesfables.com . And don’t forget: Books make great presents for the people you love. . . #giveabook #donateabook #booksmakegreatpresents #mablesfables #toronto #thankyoutoronto
• It’s snowing out! Big, white, fluffy snowflakes swirling around. I love the first snow like this. I love the big fluffy snowflakes. I love how it looks magical and beautiful. I don’t love being cold all winter and trudging through snow. But that first snowfall? It is beautiful. . . . #snow #cherylrainfield #YAwriter #LGBTQwriter #booknerd #bookworm #ireadYA #survivor #feminist #petalrainfield #chinesecrested #hairyhairless #dogstagram #ilovemydog #ilovemychinesecresteddog #servicedog #dogmom

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Gifts for Booklovers

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Picture Book Reviews & Lists

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Teen & Children's Book Blogs

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• Big A, Little A: Children’s Book, Writing, & Life
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• Chicken Spaghetti: Books for Children and the rest of us, too.
• Children’s Book Reviews
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• Cybils Blog: Children’s & YA Bloggers’ Literary Awards
• Finding Wonderland: The Writing YA Weblog
• Fuse #8 Production
• Genrefluent
• I’m Here. I’m Queer. What the Hell do I read?
• Jen Robinson’s Book Page
• Kids Lit
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• Read, Read, Read
• Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast.
• Wizards Wireless
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Teen Book Reviews & Lists

• Big A, Little A: Children’s Book, Writing, & Life
• BookBrowse
• Bookshelves of Doom
• Charlotte’s Library
• Children’s and Young Adult Book Reading Resources by Cynthia Leitich Smith
• Children’s Book Reviews
• Crazy 4 Kids Books
• Favourite Teenage Angst Books
• Gay, Lesbian, Bi, Trans Teen Fiction Booklist by author Alex Sanchez
• Gay, Lesbian, Bi, Transexual, Transgender Teen Fiction Booklist
• I’m Here. I’m Queer. What the Hell do I read?
• Kids Lit: Books and more for children and teens
• ReaderGirlz
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