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Jennifer L. Gadd

@jenniferlgadd.bsky.social
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Author; free-lance editor; retired reading teacher; proponent of tea & scones; more left wing than you could possibly imagine; living blue in red Kansas; still masking; no AI, are you even kidding me; she/her. jennifergadd.wixsite.com/jenniferlg…

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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Night-night. I leave you with this. #kidlitchat
Meme says: January: I'm going to write a novel.
*Just researching Victorian thimbles 1852-1867 for that one sentence*
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Regarding whatever they're doing in class already, if you can enhance or expand that learning by teaching the standards, administration will be much more likely to approve the visit. #kidlitchat
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Has anybody done Zoom or Teams presentations to schools or classes? #kidlitchat
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If you're visiting ELA classes, it's good to ask what they're studying at the moment. Is it figurative language? You've hit the jackpot for your presentation! #kidlitchat
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
With middle schools, which change classes, I offer to take the whole day for the teacher, and do my presentation with all (seven) of their classes. An assembly is way more disruptive, and what I do gives them a break and keeps their classes "even" in their lesson plans. #kidlitchat
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My most recent was for an ELA teacher bestie whose 7th-graders were about to begin Kansas History in Social Studies. I have a historical fiction book about Quantrill's Raid. I did a power point of cool facts, the school was nice to buy a bunch of the book, and we raffled them off. #kidlitchat
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I've mostly done visits with local classes, and since I was a teacher in both of the big districts in my city, it's been through word of mouth with teacher friends. I would never charge my friends for that. #kidlitchat
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
These days, I'm putzing on Canva to create shorter little video blurbs, but back in the day (just a few years ago) iMovie trailer was the way to go. Here's the one I made for the last Finn book. #PB #fantasy #mythology #kidlit #patternbooks #booksky
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Finn and the King.mp4
It's Finn again! Finn is all grown up. The king needs Finn to fight a monster. Will Finn become a hero?
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ooh, this one is an entire minute and a half! TL;DR, right? Gotta love that Ken Burns effect. #historicalfiction #civilwar #middlegrade #kidlit #booksky
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Millie McClendon_ Jayhawker!.mp4
It's August 1863, and Quantrill's Raiders are about to ride into Lawrence, Kansas, bent on revenge. It will take all of ten-year-old Millie's courage and cleverness to save her friends and family.
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Everybody wants to read a story about a magic fish, right? These were such fun to make, back in the days when iMovie trailers were the bees' knees. #PB #kidlit #literacy #booksky #irish #mythology
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Finn and the Fish.mp4
Finn and his friend catch a magic fish. Then, Finn lets his friend down. Will his friend forgive him?
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trailers for books used to be everywhere. Now I guess folks don't even have a one-minute attention span. Anyway, my trio (+1 in this book) winds up moving into full-blown antifa mode in Space Race. #YA #hilobooks #kidlit #booksky #scifi
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Space Race
The Space Cadets are ready to start another school year. While dealing with school projects, a new friend, and bullies, they uncover a dangerous plot. How bad does something have to get before you dec...
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It takes almost as long to watch the video as it does to read the book! Unless you're just learning how to read, which in that case makes you the reader I wrote it for! #PB #fantasy #patternbook #kidlit #mythology
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Finn and the Boys.mp4
The boys won't let Finn play ball. How can he solve his problem?
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The College of Cardinals would like a quick word.
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Heh-heh. I'm an ash, always. 😆 @treesandwords.bsky.social
A meme featuring 8 obsolete Anglo-Saxon letters, asking readers to choose which one they are. All 8 have text that reads "You are a nerd."
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Pope Leo is getting all ontological up in here. I love to see it.
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This old trailer is for Space Bugs, the first in my #hilobooks #scifi series. So dramatic. #kidlit
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Space Bugs.mp4
It was another boring summer at space camp until the Gregarians invaded. If three teens can learn to get along they might save themselves--and prevent an intergalactic war!
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I made these yonks ago, and they're out of style now. Still fun, though, if you have a minute. This one is for The Second Battle #YA #fantasy #irish #mythology #kidlit #booksky
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The Second Battle.mp4
Lugh is on the run from a prophecy saying he'll kill his own grandfather. He risks pulling all Ireland in a bloody war.
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I loved Matt's YA series in this world, and I absolutely recommend his new series for adults. It's a ton of fun. #fantasy #booksky
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
These are a little long by today's standard and perhaps no longer de rigueur, but they were fun to make and what the heck. This one is for Cat Moon. Got a minute? #YA #paranormal #kidlit #booksky
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The Were-Children_ Cat Moon.mp4
Emma wants a home and family. The Were-Guard wants her dead.
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you're a rapist, you are not a "promising young man," no matter who your daddy is or much money you have. Nobody needs to care about your future than you do, and if you rape someone, you've ruined your own future.
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Jesus, this execution debacle. This is torture. You'd think the U.S. government would be more efficient at killing people.
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If rape is so typical that, of course, you obviously expect it in a frat house, then we need to close every frat house in the country.
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Finn and the King: #PB #fantasy #patternbooks #irish #kidlit 🧸📚 ⚔️📚 --Finn again --There's a dragon --with pink claws --Finn has to save Tara --pretty Beowulfish, ackshually --independent reading for emergent readers A monster attacks Tara. If Finn can beat it, he will be the king's captain.
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Finn and the King (Finn the Hero Book 3)
Finn and the King (Finn the Hero Book 3) - Kindle edition by Gadd, Jennifer L., Clark, Adam. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Finn and the King (Finn the Hero Book 3).
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Space Race-- #MG #YA #hilobooks #scifi #kidlit 🪐📚 --a 2nd adventure --dealing with bullies --aluminum-based lifeforms --more group projects --antifa teenagers The Space Cadets are back at school, unsure if they're still friends after camp. They face a thing so bad they know they have to stop it.
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Space Race (Space Cadets Book 2)
A new school year is starting, and Brian is facing down some bullies. His new friends Trudy and Zach are at odds on how to help him. As new student Tuvi, a nonhuman from another planet, joins the grou...
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
AI seems to be making these techbros happy at some level, but it will never bring them joy or pleasure. Creation puts more into the world. AI only extracts.
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If I want personalized music, I'll pick up a guitar and write a song or something. I've done it before, and I'll do it again. Perhaps infinitely.
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Dang, it hasn't even started raining, and we've already lost power. That's efficient.
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Another place I can get feedback is our local writing group, formerly a part of that annual November event that shall not be named. We have a Discord, and I could toss any idea for feedback or find a critique partner in a heartbeat. #kidlitchat
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Some author friends and I started a horror novel, where one wrote chapter 1, then passed it on to someone else, who wrote chapter 2. No plot or outline, just picking up where the others left off. We ran out of steam before we finished, but it was so much fun! #kidlitchat
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A little validation is always good, but from an editor, which the partner I work with most often, I want accuracy and no BS outlook. I have no issue taking critique from an editor. #kidlitchat
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The discourse has always been about how women have to coax and cajole the men to become decent, that we should never should go foward faster than the men can keep up. I'm so tired of having to drag them along behind us. Just get up and walk and learn to keep up, men. Jeebus.
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Finn and the Fish- #PB #literacy #irish #fantasy #kidlit 🧸📚 🪐📚 -Irish hero Finn McCool -and a magic fish! -friendships -accountability and forgiveness - #patternbook -encourages independed early reading Finn and his friend go fishing. Finn hurts his friend's feelings and wants to work things out.
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Finn and the Fish (Finn the Hero Book 2)
Finn and the Fish (Finn the Hero Book 2) - Kindle edition by Gadd, Jennifer L., Clark, Adam. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Finn and the Fish (Finn the Hero Book 2).
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Ms. Rosenberg @msrosenberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They just need 850 people to give them $1000 😭 foundation.fhsu.edu/save-sternbe...
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Save Sternberg - Fort Hays State University Foundation
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 29/09/2026
It’s Launch Day, darling! This one is not cozy or for the faint of heart, please note the warnings, but it’s here at last! And while you should read in the way you like the best—dude, Neil Newbon’s narration knocks it out of the PARK. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/813073...
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Baldur's Gate 3: Astarion by T. Kingfisher: 9798217298594 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
The roguish charlatan Astarion will free himself from a centuries-long fate of servitude or die (a second time) trying—in this decadently dark fantasy adventure by award-winning author T. Kingfisher.....
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have to wonder if the adults in the room realize that what they're doing and saying is absolutely ludicrous. They have to. And yet, they keep doing it. Judges have so much discretionary power, and they could just as easily do and say other things. But they don't.
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I never, ever, ever want to know anything again about Sen. Kennedy's vomit. I heard about that one time completely against my will just now.
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Millie McLendon: Jayhawker! #MG #historicalfiction #civilwar #lfk ⌛📚 🧸📚 - #kidlit book includes a massacre! - spunky girl MC - real-life bad guy William Quantrill (Booooo.) - bad things happen to good kids - painstaking research Aug 21, 1863. Quantrill's Raiders come to town for revenge.
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Millie McLendon: Jayhawker!
Ten-year-old Millie McLendon is overwhelmed. Her stepmother disapproves of everything she does. Her baby brother cries all the time. And she has her chores and her schoolwork to tend to. It will take ...
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I wonder how many of the men getting that message would have been rapists, but just couldn't work it into their schedule that morning.
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don't give a crap about those fratboys' futures. She had a future, too, and they destroyed it.
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Andrew Schreck @andrewschreck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i don't think cis guys realize how much power they can shift in a conversation just by casually telling their friends
"that's fucked up, man" when someone says something
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i hope that men notice how whenever a rape story gets widespread coverage, women use it as an opportunity to vent about how fucking disgusting we think many of you are and how many have made our lives measurably worse, and take a few moments to deeply process that.
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Finn and the Boys- #PB #irish #literacy #kidlit 🧸📚 -Irish hero Finn McCool -hurling! -mean boys -for emergent readers -#patternbook -bright, colorful illustrations The boys won't play ball with Finn, and he has figure out a way to solve his problem.
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Finn and the Boys (Finn the Hero Book 1)
All heroes start out as little boys. Finn just wants to play with the other boys, but they won't let him.This story from Irish mythology is an independent pattern book for young emergent readers. You ...
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
To all the guys in that Cornell frat who received that SnapChat message and did nothing to help that poor woman: understand that you're not one of the good guys.
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Space Bugs-- #SFF #scifi #YA #hilobooks #kidlit #booksky 🪐📚 🧸📚 -summer camp in space -worst group project ever -invasion of super-intelligent insectoid aliens -nerds and geeks -and a dudebro -there's always a dudebro Three teens must work together to stop an alien invasion at their summer camp.
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Space Bugs (Space Cadets Book 1)
Space Bugs (Space Cadets Book 1) - Kindle edition by Gadd, Jennifer L.. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Space Bugs (Space Cadets Book 1).
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Save Our Country (we/us) 🇺🇸 @rlab53.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#TheCornell7
Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.so...

These are the Cornell rapists:
THE CORNELL 7
Matthew Ingalls
Diego Sarabia
Winston Lee
Scott Kretzschmar
Scott Norris
Gillio Lopes
Johnathan Newell
1:52 PM • Sep 27, 2026
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I have several nasty food allergies, so I'm just passing along the info for others.
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And now there's a weed recall. These are truly the end of days.
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I have sprouted alfalfa seeds and made homemade granola. Guess I'm a homesteader now.
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Second Battle- #YA #fantasy #mythology #irish #ireland #kidlit #pagan 🪐📚 -Irish myth cycle -coming of age -gods and goddesses -bad guy you wanna smack The young Irish god Lugh is running from a prophecy saying he will kill his grandfather, and all Ireland gets pulled into the conflict.
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The Second Battle
According to the prophecy, Lugh is destined to kill his own grandfather. Determined to escape his fate, he runs the risk of drawing all of Ireland into war. The story of Cath Maige Tuired has enthrall...
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Jennifer L. Gadd @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I find the popularity of Advent calendars peculiar. For one thing, the ones you buy are off. They all start on Dec. 1, and that's . . . not Advent. I love cheese, too, but that's just a countdown of the days in December to Christmas. Advent begins Nov. 29 this year. You need two more days of cheese.
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Wallace and Gromit: CHEESE!
Alt: Wallace and Gromit: CHEESE!
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