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Jane Ellis @jane1343.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Just finished reading @erindowning.bsky.social’s newest MG book, What Happened Then. Wow! What a ride! This is Erin’s first mystery and she really nailed it! Looking for a good read that keeps you turning the pages, check it out in September.

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Colby Sharp @colbysharp.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

2025 Middle Grade That I Could NOT PUT DOWN youtu.be/G4kvMEiu4-I

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2025 Middle Grade That I Could NOT PUT DOWN

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Cindy Babich @mrsbabich.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I wanted to read b/c of my connection to ALS. I loved the whole story. Fractured family, mystery, adventure, loneliness, healing - this will be a huge hit with readers. Thanks @erindowning.bsky.social , @scholastic.bsky.social for sharing with #bookposse. Heading to @beth1campbell.bsky.social

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Erin Soderberg Downing @erindowning.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I’m so sorry to hear you also have a connection with ALS. It’s awful.

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Cindy Babich @mrsbabich.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

My turn! I’m looking forward to spending my morning with Avery at Crooked Lake - I have heard great things about this story!! Many thanks to @erindowning.bsky.social and @scholastic.bsky.social for sharing with #bookposse!

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Stacy Alfano @teachlovesbooks.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

@destinylawyer you will LOVE this book! Told by Avery, Jax and “Then”, this book is about finding your place, family secrets, tough relationships and the love that binds it all together!! Buying a copy for my classroom!! Thank you @erindowning.bsky.social @scholastic #BookPosse

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Erin Soderberg Downing @erindowning.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Added a little something to my forearm today. I’m obsessed.

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Erin Soderberg Downing @erindowning.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Yesterday was my last in-person school visit of the year! They did so much amazing prep to get excited about our time together. Check out these classroom doors at Becker Intermediate!

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Erin Soderberg Downing @erindowning.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

NEW SERIES COVER REVEAL!! I am so excited to share these ADORABLE covers for the first books in my next younger middle-grade series, which launches in January 2026 (cover art by: Johanna Tarkela). More info: www.erinsoderberg.com/just-like-ho...

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Jennifer Guyor Jowett @jenguyorjowett.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Getting ready to start this read tonight! I've heard amazing things. Thanks to #erinsoderbergdowning and Scholastic for sharing with #bookposse!

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Ann Braden (she/her) @annbraden.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

INTO THE RAPIDS launches into the world today! I'm so excited for you to leap into the rapids of life with Addy! I can't wait to meet readers tomorrow at Anderson’s in IL (tickets required), on 5/15 at Schuler Books in MI, & on 5/23 at the Flying Pig in VT. I hope to see some of you along the way!

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Cindy Schwind @cindyschwind1.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Wow!!! A whopper of a family story! Fantastic setting, estranged family, hidden diary entries & cousins Avery & Jax trying to figure out what happened! Thank you @erindowning.bsky.social for sharing this with #bookposse I LOVED it-but more importantly, kids will love it!! 💚💚

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Erin Soderberg Downing @erindowning.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

How does Dan Gemeinhart do it, book after book after book?? This is another absolute page-turning high-stakes adventure that is bursting with incredible characters! Once again, he had me crying on one page, then howling with laughter the next. This one would make such a fun class read-aloud!

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Erin Soderberg Downing @erindowning.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Why don’t I send one more #bookposse copy to circulate? Send me an email and tell me who’s next on the list (and address!).

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jenniferhalbur.bsky.social @jenniferhalbur.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I finished wiping my 😭 after finishing this 📕 . @erindowning.bsky.social @scholastic.bsky.social Spending a summer with estranged family members sounds awful, until it isn’t Jax and Avery search for answers to what happened that last summer. @cindyschwind1.bsky.social #bookposse you are next!

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Erin Soderberg Downing @erindowning.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

JUST KEEP WALKING is on Minnesota’s State award list for next year!!!! The Maud Hart Lovelace committee picked some amazing books for next year - and now you have some ideas of what to buy for independent bookstore day (+ here’s a link to more of my faves: bookshop.org/lists/some-o...)!

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Erin Soderberg Downing @erindowning.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

SCATTERGOOD is absolutely marvelous - set in rural Iowa during WWII, in and around the real Scattergood hostel for refugees. Peggy is a magnificent and REAL character, and this story was just perfect - warm, sad, funny, excellent setting. Historical fiction at its very best. @hmbouwman.bsky.social

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Erin Soderberg Downing @erindowning.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

BOOK RECOMMENDATION! A spare novel in verse that packs a big punch, story- and character-wise. An intriguing premise, about a girl who’s destined to be a 4th generation fire-spotter, having grown up - living with and learning from her Mom and Grandma - at the top of a fire tower deep in the woods.

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Erin Soderberg Downing @erindowning.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

BOOK RECOMMENDATION! A beautifully-written, edge-of-your-seat verse novel about a town trying to rebuild and move forward after devastating fires destroy everything - absolutely essential for helping kids understand wildfires and our human impact on the natural world. @baronchrisbaron.bsky.social

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jenniferhalbur.bsky.social @jenniferhalbur.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

This just arrived and there is already a long list of #bookposse readers! We love @erindowning.bsky.social @scholastic.bsky.social !

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Erin Soderberg Downing @erindowning.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Oh my gosh I just read The Burning Season, which comes out soon, and LOVED it as a read-alike. I also loved Mid-Air, which would be a really fun crossover with Heroes.

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Erin Soderberg Downing @erindowning.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Hiking makes me sooooo happy! Really joyful spending a few days in Colorado!

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Erin Soderberg Downing @erindowning.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Your spring break is so late!! Enjoy the reading break (so excited you got this in time!!!).

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Melissa Thom @msthombookitis.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

So excited for my #bookmail!! “What Happened Then” by @erindowning.bsky.social will be at the top of a very large spring break #TBR list! 🎉🎉👏🏻💓🌺 #TLSkyChat #scholastic #bookposse #joyfulreading

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Erin Soderberg Downing @erindowning.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

A balloon arch, state-specific food trucks researched and created by 3rd and 4th graders, and a cheering red-carpet welcome made today’s school visit extra special!!

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Erin Soderberg Downing @erindowning.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Apparently WHAT HAPPENED THEN is now available on Netgalley!!! Physical ARCs are heading out from my publisher very soon, but in the meantime, it’s there to request!! www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

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NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...

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Erin Soderberg Downing @erindowning.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Why be mean? That’s just an unkind thing to say.

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Erin Soderberg Downing @erindowning.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

My husband decided it was time for our teenagers to get up. He took a page from Walter Peach’s book (in The Great Peach Experiment). 😂🎺

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Erin Soderberg Downing @erindowning.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Got to check out a super cool bookstore last night - Book Vault in Oskaloosa, IA! And we had a really strong turnout for my event - school events before a night book party always mean kids will show up wanting to know more - and I love seeing them a second time!!

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Erin Soderberg Downing @erindowning.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I am in the middle of Iowa, doing a few days of school visits in veeeeery small communities. It’s so pretty and peaceful, and the town I’m sleeping in is the portrait of small-town America.

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Erin Soderberg Downing @erindowning.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Got to visit my buddies at @dragonflybooks.bsky.social for a couple days of school visits (now I’m elsewhere in IA). LOVE the way they have their chapter book series displayed!

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Erin Soderberg Downing @erindowning.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

This is Hank, the emotional support dog at today’s Iowa school visit. I wish my schools had a buddy like Hank when I was a kid!

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Erin Soderberg Downing @erindowning.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Here’s what I loved most about Mardi Gras in New Orleans: I have never been any place where absolutely everyone shines brightly in their own way and are so encouraged to embrace their unique self - and EVERY single person around celebrates and cheers them on. So much body positivity and self-love!

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Lynda Mullaly Hunt @lyndamh.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Teachers and librarians! Look what I scored :-) Absolutely loving this one by @erindowning.bsky.social And, more importantly, I think kids will love it. Highly recommended! 🥰

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Erin Soderberg Downing @erindowning.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Oh!!!! Thank you so much, @lyndamh.bsky.social - this makes me sooooo happy!!!

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Erin Soderberg Downing @erindowning.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

As of today, JUST KEEP WALKING is now also available as an audiobook! This has been a personal mission of mine, to get this released in this format, as it makes the book so much more accessible to all readers!! Check out a sample: rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97...

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RBmedia | Just Keep Walking

Listen to the audiobook Just Keep Walking, written by Erin Soderberg Downing, narrated by Tina Wolstencroft.

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Erin Soderberg Downing @erindowning.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Over the past few weeks I learned that JUST KEEP WALKING has been named to two state lists for next year! Thanks so much, Iowa and Oklahoma!! ❤️🥾🏕️

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Erin Soderberg Downing @erindowning.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Drinking coffee out of a mug I made myself is making my morning so happy!!

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Kate Messner @katemessner.com · 19/02/2025

Just got an advance copy of @erindowning.bsky.social's latest novel in the mail & can't wait to dig in!

Kate (shoulder length brown hair, brown eyes, glasses & a light green tank top) in front of a bookshelf, holding an ARC of WHAT HAPPENED THEN by Erin Soderberg Downing, which shows a sunset lake scene with two kids in a rowboat heading out to a small wooded island with a house on it.

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Erin Soderberg Downing @erindowning.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I ran exactly the same run (time and everything!) today. But indoors….😢

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Erin Soderberg Downing @erindowning.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Gah!! ARCs are here!!! Thank you to two of my fave authors (and humans), @annbraden.bsky.social and @jarrett-lerner.bsky.social for your thoughtful words about this book!!! Read an excerpt here: www.erinsoderberg.com/what-happene...

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Erin Soderberg Downing @erindowning.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Today’s school visit in Iowa was so incredible! The kids were very creative and engaged, I got to play gym class, I found out I’m on next year’s Iowa state list, AND a generous community member donated money to buy a book for all 320 kids at the school!

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