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Cordelia Jensen @cordeliajensen.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Revising a kidlit novel in verse? Join us this fall for a 6 week on line course with presentations, Q&As, writing exercises and workshopping! Register here: boydsmills.org/workshop/rev...

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Cordelia Jensen @cordeliajensen.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Revising a kidlit novel in verse? Join us this fall for a 6 week on line course with presentations, Q&As, writing exercises and workshopping! Register here: boydsmills.org/workshop/rev...

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Cordelia Jensen @cordeliajensen.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

So honored that Lilac and the Switchback was chosen by @pacftb.bsky.social to represent PA as a 2026 Great Reads! I can’t wait for the National Book Festival in August!

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Pennsylvania Center for the Book @pacftb.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

We are so proud to have Lilac and the Switchback represent PA at the National Book Festival!

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Cordelia Jensen @cordeliajensen.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

So honored that Lilac and the Switchback was chosen by @pacftb.bsky.social to represent PA as a 2026 Great Reads! I can’t wait for the National Book Festival in August!

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Cordelia Jensen @cordeliajensen.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

So excited that Lilac and the Switchback is on the 2026-27 Keystone to Reading list!

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Christiana Doucette @doucette515.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

📚👍 #PoetryMonth Day 11 One of my favorite authors had an #NIV publish last year. @cordeliajensen.bsky.social teaches so many #verseNovelists at @boydsmills.bsky.social. Lilac and the Switchback: Lilac navigates acceptance, kinship care & friendship, during her aunt's dangerous pregnancy.

Lilac and the Switchback by Cordelia Jensen. Recognized with starred review in Booklist, A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. Themes include: School
Friendship
Family
Hiking
Kinship Care
Parent’s Pregnancy Complications
Coming-of-Age
Jewish Heritage

Middle Grade Novels-in-Verse 2025. Titles include: 13 Ways to Say Goodbye
A Sea of Lemon Trees
Aarzu All Around (Aarzu Raza Extra No More!)
Its All or Nothing, Vale
All the Blues in the Sky
Away
Glitch Girl
Green Promises
Hannah Backwards
If Elephants Could Talk
Kimmy Carson is Not Scared
Lilac and the Switch Back (Lilac Lost and Found)
Little Bones
Little Bones
Neshama
Octopus Moon (formerly Mermaids and Other Signs of Life)
Oh Give me a Home
Please Pay Attention
Radiant
Safe Harbor
Spark
The Burning Season (Formerly: Fire Finder)
The Extraordinary Orbit of Alex Ramirez
The First Year
The Girl in the Wall
The House at the Edge of the World
The Oasis
The Only Branch on the Family Tree
The Poetry of Car Mechanics
The Midas Trees
The Song of Orphan's Garden
The Trouble with Heroes
Trapped: The Entombed Miner of Bonnie Vale
Zarina Divided

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Cordelia Jensen @cordeliajensen.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

So excited that Lilac and the Switchback is on the 2026-27 Keystone to Reading list!

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Cordelia Jensen @cordeliajensen.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Best book mail! Lilac and the Switchback is my first book to receive a Junior Library Guild gold star selection and I’m so happy to now have the physical award!

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Cordelia Jensen @cordeliajensen.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Best book mail! Lilac and the Switchback is my first book to receive a Junior Library Guild gold star selection and I’m so happy to now have the physical award!

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Hoot and Holler @hootandholler.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Thursday (2/12) on Hoot and Holler (4-5 pm, wesufm.org, 88.1 FM) I interview Ned Hickson about his crime novel Harbinger of Truth, and I talk to Cordelia Jensen about her novel Lilac and the Switchback. @nedhickson-author.bsky.social @cordeliajenkins.bsky.social

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Cordelia Jensen @cordeliajensen.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Such an honor to be interviewed for this book! It’s a must for anyone studying/interested in the novel in verse craft!

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Cordelia Jensen @cordeliajensen.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Such an honor to be interviewed for this book! It’s a must for anyone studying/interested in the novel in verse craft!

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Pennsylvania Center for the Book @pacftb.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

🎉 Celebrate the start of 2026 with a book from one of these (potentially) new to you Pennsylvania authors: 📙 Cordelia Allen Jensen ( @cordeliajensen.bsky.social ) 📙 Terry LaBan 📙 Jeff Bogle 📙 Xio Axelrod ( @xioaxelrod.bsky.social )

Orange graphic with white flowers and two book covers, Lilac and the Switchback by Cordelia Jensen and Mendel the Mess-Up by Terry LaBan. The name of each author is listed under their book cover.

Orange graphic with white flowers and two book covers, Street Cats & Where to Find Them by Jeff Bogle and The Girl with Stars in Her Eyes by Xio Axelrod. The name of each author is listed under their book cover.

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Becky Kidd @mrsbkiddfcps.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Hooray! Hoping to see you in Frederick—Love Curious Iguana!

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Cordelia Jensen @cordeliajensen.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

#kidlit crowd! Please join me for this mini tour in Maryland January events with @laurashovan.bsky.social and guest Naomi Milliner. We will be first in Frederick and then on Columbia! Details below! #versenovels #mglit #authorevents

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Cordelia Jensen @cordeliajensen.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

If there are any 4th-7th grade teachers here for #kidlit chat @melissadassori.bsky.social and I are running a friendship themed #giveaway on instagram for a copy of four of our books and a free author zoom check out our insta posts to enter!

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Jen Gennari @jengennari.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

And my favorite novels in verse I read this year! #kidlitchat

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Cordelia Jensen @cordeliajensen.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Thanks Linda!! All #versenovel enthusiasts should also check out #DiVERSE, 28 verse novelists interviewed!! Best craft resource out there for NIVs!

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Cordelia Jensen @cordeliajensen.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Thanks Linda!! All #versenovel enthusiasts should also check out #DiVERSE, 28 verse novelists interviewed!! Best craft resource out there for NIVs!

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Amanda MacGregor @amandamacgregor.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Take Five: Top 5 Books at My School This Fall I'm curious what's moving the most at your libraries, especially if you're in Minnesota. teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2025/11/21/t... @tltkaren.bsky.social

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Take Five: Top 5 Books at My School This Fall

I'm curious what's moving the most at your libraries, especially if you're in Minnesota.

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Scott Stein @sstein.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Starting to go through writing craft books for a novel story/structure/strategy MFA course I’m creating. #academicsky

STEERING
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CRAFT
A 21ST-CENTURY GUIDE
SAILING THE SEA
STORY
URSULA K
LE GUIN
Jane Alison
Meander
Spiral
Explode
Design and Pattern in Narrative
JOHN
GARD
THE ART OF
FICTION
NOTES ON CRAFT FOR
TERS
Refuse
to Be
Done
How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts
MATT BELL
CRON
STOR
STORY GENIUS
BOW TO USE BRAIN SCIENCE TO GO BEYOND OUTLINING AND WRITE A RIVETING NOVEL
(•Before Too Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Ge Newt
LISA CRON
AUTHOR OF WIRED FOR STORY
SAVE THE CAT!
The Last Book On Screenwriting That Youll Ever Need
BLAKE SNYDER

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Elissa Malespina @elissamalespina.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

AI is now being used to “flag” school library books. The new CLCD tool, Class-Shelf Plus v3, may speed up censorship under the guise of efficiency. This development should alarm every librarian and educator. #TLSky #EduSkyAi #libraries #censorship open.substack.com/pub/aischool...

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The Most Dangerous AI Tool for Libraries Yet

How Class-Shelf Plus v3 quietly turns censorship into an automated workflow and why every librarian should be alarmed.

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Cordelia Jensen @cordeliajensen.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Excited for the Granby Children’s Book Festival this weekend!! #middlegrade #kidlit #freeevent #mgbooks

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Cordelia Jensen @cordeliajensen.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Excited for the Granby Children’s Book Festival this weekend!! #middlegrade #kidlit #freeevent #mgbooks

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Cordelia Jensen @cordeliajensen.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

#kidlit crowd! Need a good read for a 9-13 year old? Called a “winning tale” by School Library Journal, a “tender story” in a starred review from Booklist and “well paced” by Horn Book. Check out this #versenovel today!

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Linda Weste @lindaweste.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Heads up #VerseNovel enthusiasts. I recently enjoyed reading and recommend #VerseNovels SPARK by @baronchrisbaron.bsky.social‬ & LILAC AND THE SWITCHBACK by @cordeliajensen.bsky.social

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Cordelia Jensen @cordeliajensen.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Behind every great cat character there’s a real cat?? Certainly true with Lilac and the Switchback! This is Lyle, the inspiration behind Lilac’s cat London. Want to read more about London? Interested in coming of age middle grade NIV? Check out Lilac and the Switchback!

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Joy McCullough @joymccullough.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Oh hey, it's another cover reveal! This middle grade novel in verse comes out on 5-26, with gorgeous cover design by Greg Stadnyk and art by Suzie Mason! (Don’t miss Kestrel’s shadow!) Available for pre-order now!

A middle grade book cover on a blue background. On the book cover, a blond child stands with her arms outstretched and back to the viewer, facing mountains in the distance. There is a black and white dog at her side, and the girl's shadow is in the shape of a bird.

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Marzieh Abbas | Kidlit Author @marziehabbas.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Thrilled for Aarzu All Around to be included in this brilliant round up of NIV! And I have so many to add to my TBR list and many I’ve ticked off😍

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Cordelia Jensen @cordeliajensen.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Interested in reading the most recent YA/MG #versenovels ? Check out this comprehensive post!! #kidlit

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Cordelia Jensen @cordeliajensen.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Interested in reading the most recent YA/MG #versenovels ? Check out this comprehensive post!! #kidlit

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Jen @popgoesthereader.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

🌼 42 2025 Middle Grade and Young Adult Novels-In-Verse 🌼 popgoesthereader.com/42-2025-midd... #BookSky #KidLit #YALit #MGLit

A collage of twenty-one 2025 middle grade and young adult book covers. Books featured include This Is The Year, Glitch Girl!, Top Heavy, Lilac and The Switchback, The Girl In The Walls, Safe Harbor, The Extraordinary Orbit of Alex Ramirez, Under The Neon Lights, The Leaving Room, Octopus moon, 13 Ways To Say Goodbye, Zarina Divided, Truth Is, Where The Heart Should Be, (S)kin, Everything is Poison, Radiant, The Burning Season, Island Creatures, The Siren and The Star and Please Pay Attention.

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Cordelia Jensen @cordeliajensen.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Some recent praise for Lilac and the Switchback!

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Cordelia Jensen @cordeliajensen.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Some recent praise for Lilac and the Switchback!

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Cordelia Jensen @cordeliajensen.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

ICYMI, @mitumalhotra.bsky.social provided me with such a special opportunity on the Cynsations blog. Read her interview of me here: cynthialeitichsmith.com/2025/09/auth... #kidlit #versenovels

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Cordelia Jensen @cordeliajensen.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

ICYMI, @mitumalhotra.bsky.social provided me with such a special opportunity on the Cynsations blog. Read her interview of me here: cynthialeitichsmith.com/2025/09/auth... #kidlit #versenovels

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Cordelia Jensen @cordeliajensen.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

ICYMI, #LilacandtheSwitchback is a poetry.org 2025 Featured Fall Book for Young Readers!! #kidlit #middlegrade #poetry #versenovels

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Cordelia Jensen @cordeliajensen.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Grateful for this lovely review of Lilac and the Switchback in @thehornbook.bsky.social! Review is not final or published yet and will be excited to share all soon but here’s a glimpse! #kidlit #versenovels #middlegrade @holiday-house.bsky.social

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