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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Yeah I talked about it with my mom too but first I freaked the fuck out about how I WAS GOING TO HAVE TO WEAR A BELT OMG NO PLEASE NO and the text meant to make me feel less alone made me panic. What if I didn't have a cool mom to talk to? If Judy Blume wants to update her text that's JUST FINE.

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Gotta love an email from @wearealsc.bsky.social promoting their fall institute with a session on helping youth lead the way to a sustainable future AND a session on how to use generative AI in your library. Those are literally contradictions & it's so embarrassing no one at ALSC acknowledges that.

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I'm a Jedi ... like my mother before me. #MayTheFourthBeWithYou as for me I'll always be here waiting and hoping that someone at LucasFilms wises up and makes THE HUNT FOR BEN SOLO.

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I will never stop being frustrating that when it comes to the mystery/thriller market for youth publishing has two categories and they are "the gosh dink secret of the very cute lost puppy" and "17 year olds involved in high stakes, bloody murder conspiracies" Great, perfect, thanks.

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I wish the person who wrote the smoking piece had the pleasure I had, of growing up with two chain-smoking parents for literally their entire life and never understanding what it was like to not live with that until they went to college. Real delight and so healthy too!

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

@brandonhoang.bsky.social @trungles.com I am making a graduation gift for my 8th grader who moved here from Vietnam. She has loved your books! I want to put "I am a poet" on a bag but I would love to have the phrase in Vietnamese. Can you point me to a reliable source for the translation? Thank you!

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I love doing digital agency/digital well-being lessons for middle schoolers.

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I don't mind being turned down for NCTE even though one of the ELA intervention teachers and I had an AMAZING presentation (with the stats to back it up) about how poetry has empowered her students but knowing they'll have 600000 sessions on HOW GREAT AI IS and TEACH WITH AI...now that's depressing.

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Huge shout-out to Rosen Publishing for creating A HUMAN BEING MADE THIS, a series for K-4. I think every school librarian working with elementary should build curriculum around it. Now can they make a secondary version, I volunteer to write some this summer. dai.rosenpublishing.com/series/A-Hum...

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Hello Bluesky maybe if you know me from other social media you know one of my favorite gratitude practices is sending real mail. I got a bunch of weird rando postcards at a reuse store. So...it's time to send some mail. You want in? Reply and inbox me!

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I got this for $1 at a thrift store and now the discussions will begin. #WhiteboardMagic

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Pamela Colloff @pamelacolloff.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

My latest, with @propublica.org + @nytimes.com: An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of domestic violence survivors who fought back -- women who are serving long sentences for killing their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison? www.propublica.org/article/okla...

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They Were Convicted of Killing Their Abusers. A New Law Offered a Second Chance at Freedom.

An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of women who killed their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison?

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I still believe in a world where real people make real things and that's in part because this 7th grader crocheted this onto their hair clip, "just 'cause" and isn't that reason enough?

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Nothing but love for the avid narrative non-fiction reader who is always desperately trying to get their friends to read it as the friends only care about fiction. Kid is constantly out there hand-selling narrative NF. Spent all lunch booktalking this one. Keep at it, kid. "Just try this one."

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

My best friend and I are doing a bf journal for the year and I'm having a hard time letting him have his turn but also I love it.

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Me, trying to explain KPOP DEMON HUNTERS to one of my coworker: okay so they're like a classic hot boy band but ALSO they are demons so the song is about drinking SOULS not soda but - oh I forgot the bird. So - My coworker:

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

do y'all ever think about the truly wild coincidence that 99% of the time every single year "the most outstanding contribution to children’s literature" is ... a middle grade chapter book for ages 9-14? That seems weird doesn't it. And yet somehow....

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Don't you love when you get messages from friends because a teen in their life finally connected with a book so they want more recs to keep the reading going? And don't you EXTRA love it when it's a book you know is totally amazing and by @kosokojackson.bsky.social ?? Yeah I love that too.

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

The most magical time of year for a school librarian! Teaching lateral reading time!

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

This is our 10th student librarian and I just gotta tell you it gets better every time. (This is a generic version of the sign I made to share, the real one has the student's name obviously.) Every part of this program is a joy. #librarylife

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

For my last RT, there's no one making books about prison abolition and toll incarceration takes on families and children like @prisonculture.bsky.social. Please get all three of her picture books for your libraries.

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Okay there's just no way middle schoolers like pumpkin pie THIS much right?? (this was a fun one. #WhiteboardMagic)

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

First book club of the school year. How many kids will show up?

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

I'm not a member of ALA anymore because I'm poor now as a teacher (that's literally true I cannot justify the expenseon my current salary) but I would NEVER want to hear anything religious from the leader of any of my professional orgs. You don't know shit about what I believe. Shut up.

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Nothing like when you just put out something (after a request) and they just start making magic. #librarylife

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

here's a real niche tweet: it's been four years but one of the hardest parts of school librarianship v. public librarianship is still not marking down the tallies for reference questions.

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

One thing on my dream wishlist is more middle grade titles from Vietnamese American authors, ideally fun and contemporary stuff. @brandonhoang.bsky.social, Thanhhà Lại, and @trungles.com can only do so much. This is a gap, imo.

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

This is what happens when you let your #1 reader be the first student librarian of the year and they literally twirl through the stacks with joy. #librarylife

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

while there are many exquisite feelings in librarianship there are none MORE exquisite than when a kid sees your favorites cart, beams at you and thoughtfully says "Oh! Thank you for having and loving this book. Did you know the character is Native like me but from Canada?"

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

If anyone in publishing cares what actual mid-schoolers want to read, I would be trying to acquire about 60000 more books exactly like Daphne Benedis-Grab's Secrets and Lies series, they have literally been checked out since day one at my school and spread through word of mouth. daphnebg.com/books/

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Books - Daphne Benedis-Grab

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Does @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social sell stickers? Because I would love to have some for my laptop and my sticker places and they have so many great designs now I would looooove to see some place other than tshirts and mugs. Any leads on this?

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Every generation of new 7th graders must go through the rite of passage: finding the small Target hashtag blocks and building the biggest cube they can, all whilst imagining no one else has ever done this. It's a canon event!!!!

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

today a 7th grader told me "do you want to hear a dolphin noise?" and when I said YES OBVIOUSLY they drank a water bottle in a way that sounded exactly like a dolphin and I thought maybe I was gonna cry from happiness, it's only been two days and magic is already everywhere.

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

@lynnekelly.bsky.social hello hi hello! I would love to send you a quick message about my beloved and darling book club now that we are back in school season. Is there somewhere I can send you a note? Thank you! 🥰

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

A back to school task I'm so glad I get to do: refreshing the care drawer. This is free and accessible at all times to any student. It debuted last year and it was a hit. The most popular items were pads (over pantyliners and tampons) and deodorants. What am I missing?

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Nothing ever matches the energy and pacing of S1, where you can CLEARLY see Thomas has conceived it as a YA novel. You simply cannot care about anything again as much as you care about Lily. In the book, she connects/is saved by her father, the door opens ON LOGAN, NORMAL. They kiss, the end.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Why do you think they pushing so hard into education? They get paid a lot of money and get to train the next generation to be wholly dependent on them. A win-win.

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

This is a beyond masterful MG book. I read part of it outloud to some of my 8th graders until one of them said "Uh that's enough, too freaky, please stop." IMO this should be in Newbery conversation.

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

HEY I'M STILL HERE (again) and school is about to start 🫠 so let's do something fun! How about a thread of the things I snatched up over summer for this school year?

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Librarian pals the Dollar Tree has these cute book journals out now. I'm stocking up because I know my middle school readers will love these as prizes.

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

@vinceyface.bsky.social I just saw you in the Nathan Fielder tiktok and I feel like I know a celebrity. 10/10 genius

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

That's a wrap on year 4 in school libraries. It's the best career reinvention I never expected and I'm so grateful. Here's to summer!

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

hey is being fat still a precondition? asking for a friend who looooooves COVID boosters and as a reminder that if they want to use BMI to say everyone's a fattie, well --

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

We've got two weeks of school left and I finally took down the Black Lit board I had up (and was gonna take down before I had to take off two weeks for my family issue and then needed a week to recover from 🫠) so I slapped this very lazy last board up. It's enough.

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Well, it is the most magical time of the school year: my lunchtime book club takes our annual (free) field trip to the most exciting place. The, wait for it, public library!!!!! Last year School Library Journal wrote a whole article about it: www.slj.com/story/Field-...

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Field Trip Fun: Middle School Book Club Goes to the Public Library

School librarian Angie Manfredi took her Los Alamos (NM) Middle School Book Club members to the local public library for a private tour and day of books and fun at the branch.

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I was recently out for almost two weeks due to personal issues and coming back today was just real joyous on so many levels. One of my students told me, "Since it's teacher appreciation week, I just want you to know I appreciate what you do."

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Another day another middle school student asking me for books about "body image" and "being better about liking your body" and me thinking about how no publisher or agent is interested in the middle grade fat acceptance anthology I have a whole pitch for.

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