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

I genuinely was freaking OUT at the thought of having to wear a god dang belt ??!! And I dunno but my GUESS is Judy Blume's goal wasn't to make kids FREAK THE FUCK OUT.

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

I had a beautiful and magical talk with my mother about it okay cool for you what if I told you one point of thrme book existing is that not every kid has a magical and cool and open mother present to have that talk with them and the book is meant to help them with that by making things less opaque?

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

Everyone's sooooo precious over the experience THEY had while reading as if it the only one forever. Perhaps not?

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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

Generative AI is intellectual theft. It in inaccurate. It is a drain on our environment and a poison to our neighborhoods. The ONLY place it has in any library is one where trained professionals educate on these things. As a professional org @wearealsc.bsky.social should know this. Do better!

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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 · 05/05/2026

my two favorites were THE BLUE CASTLE (which remains, to me, one of the best romances EVER written and that I return to often) and A TANGLED WEB. I also loved her collection of scary short stories. OK I loved them all. But yeah, BLUE CASTLE is the absolute best, you have to read it.

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

Montgomery was absolutely one of the most influential writers for me in middle/high school and at the time Bantam was putting out all these paperback editions of her books, including collections of her stories (she wrote soooo many stories....just like Emily! Hmm!) so those are my beloveds, still.

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

Boy are you about to have the best experience of your life!!!! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/116288...

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

Rarely have I felt quite as *specifically* hated as a fat person as during this event and it's only getting worse year by year!

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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 mean yes Emily is better than Anne OBVIOUSLY but aren't you forgetting Valancy? 😉

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

this is genuinely such a joyous moment Daniel that I feel kind of speechless and I can't imagine how you feel. OMG CONGRATS X 100

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

yes! It's one of my favorite bits of trivia about him that most people don't know!! They bleached his hair during SAVED BY THE BELL. Look up pictures of him and his mom.

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

do you know he is mixed race and his mother is Indonesian?

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

my kingdom for a thousand books more books like Daphne Benedis-Grab books daphnebg.com/books/

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Books - Daphne Benedis-Grab

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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

we have really worked on actual poetry, so I think that is the term that would fit the best. I would appreciate anything, and you know I will pay, just anyone/thing you would recommend that isn't gross disgusting useless AI 🙄 Thank yoooou.

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

I just don't want to use AI (gross gross gross) and make sure I get it correct but you know trying to do that on the internet these days is a nightmare, sooooo

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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 · 16/04/2026

It just makes me feel like I'm...I don't know it's so much worse to talk to adults about it? The kids seem genuinely to consider it, the adults are like blank on it?? Like?! Anyway let me know if you're looking for collaborators or even want to brainstorm. OR VENT. Maybe we could try AASL??

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Angie Manfredi @angiemanfredi.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Yeah I do multiple lessons about it for students and I might try to apply for ISTE next year but l one wants to hear it lol it's somehow so much more depressing when it's like YOU CAN TEACH THEM HOW TO DO IT! than the kids using it? I dunno, bleak!

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

I am so glad I am not going to ALA this summer where every other presentation is about how SUPER AND COOL AND AMAZING AI is and how you HAVE to use it and teach with it. No thank you!!! No thanks on that one!!!

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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

hey edu world: instead of having 53 more keynotes/sessions at conferences about how you can "teach AI ethically" and "teach your students how to use AI instead of just letting them do it" how about some sessions and keynotes on educating properly about the uselessness and dangers of it, eh? Eh?

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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

daskfjsal;kdj what I think this mirrors my other big issue with threads. Every single person there I have encountered is operating from a place of bad intent, assuming the words, going to the worst conclusion as quickly as possible. I understand this is the algorithm but it is still VERY unpleasant.

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

also I am very old and threads ... I don't know there's something about the format that is really hard for my brain to track. I get spun off and lost it in much easier than anywhere else. I can't keep up with it as easily. Makes me sad all the old networks of authors and librarians are broken down.

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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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a little boy in a blue shirt is sitting on a couch .

ALT: a little boy in a blue shirt is sitting on a couch .

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

What a CRAZY coincidence they are never even HONOR books. I'm sure it's nothing!

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

but hey what do I know? I'm only the person forced to resign from the Newbery committee because I talked about a kid liking a book on social media. So you obviously can't rely on me.

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

you'd think at least regularly maybe "the most outstanding contribution to children’s literature" would be ... a picture book or an early reader or more maybe more often graphic novels. Wouldn't you? Wouldn't you think that?

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a man in a plaid shirt and black jacket says wouldn t you agree

ALT: a man in a plaid shirt and black jacket says wouldn t you agree

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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

@kosokojackson.bsky.social which related what books would YOU recommend for someone who just finished THE FOREST DEMAND IT'S DUE and just discovered reading again and wants to know what their next book should be? 😀😀

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

She wanted also to pass along her HUGE thanks and word that it "literally awakened a desire to read" in her niece so you know she's gonna be buying all your books! 💖

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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

Without fail, they all say something in their application about the reason they love reading is because it helps them experience other lives, etc. Not knowing, of course, they are highlighting exactly why reading is so powerful: it makes us better and more empathic people.

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

they get to add a signature at the bottom, that's why there's the white space, and of course we create personalized booklists on bookmarks for each display, which everyone - including teachers - makes a big deal over. Real joy.

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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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