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Marcie Flinchum Atkins @marciefatkins.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

In 2 weeks WHEN TWILIGHT COMES will hit the shelves. Illustrated by Michelle Morin, published by Chronicle Kids. You can preorder wherever books are sold. For signed copies, order through One More Page Books onemorepagebooks.com/book/s978179...

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Kidlit For Growing Minds @kl4gm.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

The March edition of our KidLit newsletter, with an article by @marciefatkins.bsky.social, is ready to read! Find book news, teaching tips, inspiration, and more. Plan ahead for April and check out our books for Poetry Month. Subscribe to enter our book bundle giveaway! 📚 tinyurl.com/bdzbs8cu

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Exploring the Magic in Your Own Backyard: Embracing the In-Between Times

By Marcie Flinchum Atkins

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Marcie Flinchum Atkins @marciefatkins.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I’m so grateful for the third starred review for ONE TWILIGHT COMES—this time from Booklist. Signed copies: onemorepagebooks.com/book/s978179...

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Marcie Flinchum Atkins @marciefatkins.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Exploring the Magic in Your Own Backyard @kl4gm.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/kidlitfo...

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chroniclekidsbooks.bsky.social @chroniclekidsbooks.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Step into the luminous world of When Twilight Comes💜🐌🌙 Author @marciefatkins.bsky.social and illustrator @michellemorin.bsky.social take you on a walk through the special moments between day and night, to discover surprises that unfold only in the twilight! Pre-order here🔗: bit.ly/4ado63m

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Kidlit For Growing Minds @kl4gm.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Our Dec newsletter, with an article written by @viviankirkfield.bsky.social is ready to read! Find book news, teaching tips, World Read Aloud Day (WRAD2026) schedules, inspiration, a book bundle giveaway and more. tinyurl.com/43rz5b4f #edusky #booksky #teachers #skybrarian #WRAD2026 #bookgiveaway

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Books Are Beacons of Light: Sharing the Power of Story

By Vivian Kirkfield

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Marcie Flinchum Atkins @marciefatkins.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

This weekend, I’ll be presenting at the #ncss2025 conference in DC. I’m excited to talk about poetry as a portal! Can’t wait to recommend many YA and adult poets that students could read, and ways those poems could serve as models to demonstrate learning.

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Marcie Flinchum Atkins @marciefatkins.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

So grateful that my first review is in for WHEN TWILIGHT COMES and it’s a ⭐️ from SLJ! Can’t wait for you to see Michelle Morin’s amazing illustrations! Coming March 2026 from @chroniclekidsbooks.bsky.social You can preorder a signed copy from One More Page Books!

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Kidlit For Growing Minds @kl4gm.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

The Nov. newsletter with an article by author @lynnstreetbooks.bsky.social is ready to read! Find book news, teaching tips, inspiration, and #KidLitForGrowingMinds members who will attend NCTE! 📚 #NCTE2025 #edusky #booksky #schoollibrarians #skybrarian tinyurl.com/zk4asf3m

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Every Seed (and Book) Holds Possibility

By Lynn Street

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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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Lisa Rogers @lisaljrogers.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Grateful to @slj.com for this awesome review of WOODY'S WORDS: WOODROW WILSON RAWLS AND WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS by me & Susan Reagan! I relied on SLJ as a school #librarian & still do! TY, SLJ! #WhereTheRedFerngrows #Edusky #librarians #SchoolLibrarians #Skybrarian #Skybrarians #TLSky #biography

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PaperBound Magazine @paperboundmag.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

We interviewed @marciefatkins.bsky.social in the latest issue of #PaperBoundMag. Read all about her novel #OneStepForward free at paperboundmag.com/issues 💙 @versifybooks.bsky.social #HistoricalFiction #YAHistoricalFiction #VerseNovel #KidLit #YABooks

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Marcie Flinchum Atkins @marciefatkins.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

I’m catching up on podcast episodes and highly recommend this episode for NF revision. Loved this @mcusolito.bsky.social and @kirstenwlarson.bsky.social

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PaperBound Magazine @paperboundmag.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

With the new issue just around the corner, we thought we'd remind you of all the authors we have featured! We can't wait to share their interviews and articles very soon! #KidLit #MGBooks #YABooks #AuthorInterview #WritingTips @marciefatkins.bsky.social @meganfreemanauthor.bsky.social

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PaperBound Magazine @paperboundmag.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

🎉COVER REVEAL📚👀 Welcome to a sneak peek of the brand new LIGHT & DARK issue of #PaperBoundMag! Packed full of brand new content, including book reviews, author interviews and writing tips (plus more!), we're so excited to share this with you SOON! Massive thanks goes to 👇

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Marcie Flinchum Atkins @marciefatkins.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Tomorrow is independent bookstore day and there are newly signed copies of One Step Forward at @onemorepagebooks.bsky.social

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Kate Messner @katemessner.com · 25/04/2025

Two recent multimodal MG novels that I love & recommend: WEREWOLF HAMLET by @kerrymadden.bsky.social - heartbreakingly real & hopeful family story (partly in stage-play script!) ONE STEP FORWARD by @marciefatkins.bsky.social - fantastic & well-researched verse novel about a teen suffragist.

Book cover WEREWOLF HAMLET by Kerry Madden-Lunsford has white title font against a maroon theater-curtain background. Cover art shows a middle school aged boy with a black cape holding up a skull in a Hamlet-esque pose as his brother - morphing into a werewolf - sneaks out the window behind him.

Book cover ONE STEP FORWARD by Marcie Flinchum Atkins has white title font against a purple background and shows a young suffragist with a purple dress and a black hat with flowers getting ready to march.

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Kenn Nesbitt - Poetry4kids @kennnesbitt.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Salt City Verse review of "ONE STEP FORWARD" by Marcie Flinchum Atkins: Demonstrations are Nothing New. bit.ly/3Ghvn6U #ChildrensPoetry #Poetry4kids

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Abbie James @abbiewjames.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

📚👍 ONE STEP FORWARD by @marciefatkins.bsky.social is an inspiring YA novel in verse about the tremendous sacrifices suffragists made so we can vote. Reading about their work motivates me to continue speaking up, imagining what they would say right now... Beautiful cover by Babeth Lafon. #kidlit

cover of ONE STEP FORWARD by Marcie Flinchum Atkins shows a young woman wearing purple with a purple background with "votes for women" on a swirling ribbon with flowers

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Marcie Flinchum Atkins @marciefatkins.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I’m the #poetryfriday host this week. Hop on by and read the posts: www.marcieatkins.com/2025/03/27/p... #haikusaturday

Water-logged blooms
Makeup streaked after
A good cry

Haiku and photo Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Rain soaked red maple blossoms

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Beth Anderson @bandersonwriter.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

⭐️Eleanor Roosevelt ⭐️Lucy Stone ⭐️Kate Warne How many of these women from history have YOU heard of? Check out Good Reads with Ronna's Women's History Month Roundup! @viviankirkfield.bsky.social @michellemarkel.bsky.social @kl4gm.bsky.social @edusky.bsky.social wp.me/p3X25n-bbw

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Three Picture Books for Women's History Month

Meet three amazing women in three picture books for Women's History Month: Unshakable Eleanor, One Girl's Voice, and Hiding in Plain Sight.

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Beth Anderson @bandersonwriter.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Honored to be interviewed by Andrea Wang on #picturebookbuilders and share a bit of the story behind the story for HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT.😍 And DON'T MISS THE GIVEAWAY of a copy of the book!📕🥳 picturebookbuilders.com/2025/03/hidi... @edusky.bsky.social @kl4gm.bsky.social @scbwirockymtn.bsky.social

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Julie Winterbottom @jwbottom.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Yay! It's pub day for MAGIC IN A DROP OF WATER: HOW RUTH PATRICK TAUGHT THE WORLD ABOUT WATER POLLUTION! Beautifully illustrated by #SusanReagan. @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @penguinkids.bsky.social @steamteambooks.bsky.social #pbgreensteam #stembooksforkids #rockypondbooks

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Inked Voices @inkedvoices.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

We are so thrilled that @marciefatkins.bsky.social YA Novel in Verse, One Step Forward, is out in the world🌟

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Marcie Flinchum Atkins @marciefatkins.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Happy birthday to suffragist Matilda Young who fought for the passage of the 19th amendment. #suffragists www.onemorepagebooks.com/one-step-for...

Happy birthday! A black and white photo of Matilda young from the Library of Congress collection. Library of Congress photo description: “Formal portrait, three-quarter-length, Matilda Young, facing slightly to the right with head turned slightly to the left, standing with right hand in pocket and left hand on waist with coat or shawl draped across left arm, wearing wide-brimmed hat with embroidered cloth around band.” Matilda Young was born March 14, 1891. Matilda Young was the youngest suffragist to be imprisoned at Occoquan Workhouse during the “Night of Terror” at 19 years old!

One Step Forward by Marcie Flinchum Atkins Versify/HarperCollins March 4, 2025 Available now: bit.ly/OSFAtkins “Powerful, necessary reading” — Kirkus Starred Review

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Marcie Flinchum Atkins @marciefatkins.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Thrilled that ONE STEP FORWARD is on this list!

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 04/03/2025

Happy #BookBirthday to @marciefatkins.bsky.social (debut YA author), @jodywrites4kids.bsky.social, Clair Rossiter, @junoniaarts.bsky.social (debut picture bk illus), @elizabetheverett.bsky.social @davidanaxagoras.com & C.Gebauer on their books! More: bsky.app/profile/debb... #KidLitLaunches #KidLit

A digital collage of four children's book covers on a yellow background:

"One Step Forward" by Marcie Flinchum Atkins – A blue-toned illustrated cover featuring a woman in a vintage outfit with a sash reading "Votes for Women," adorned with flowers and ribbons.
"All By Myself (but sometimes you need a little help!)" by Elizabeth Everett, illustrated by Shelley Hanna – A watercolor-style illustration of a young child reading a book while surrounded by building blocks and a toy car. The title appears on a banner with a hand-drawn feel.
"The Tower" by David Anaxagoras, narrated by Christopher Gebauer – A dark, dramatic cover with a silhouetted figure against a glowing background, with the title in bold, stylized typography.
"Bear and Friends: Puzzle Reader Collection" (Highlights Puzzle Readers) – A bright and cheerful illustration featuring a bear and foxes engaged in a playful activity, with text highlighting "6 Books in 1!" and bonus matching activities.

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Melissa Stewart @mstewartscience.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Happy Book Birthday! I'm SO excited to see this book enter the world. Illustrator @brianlies.bsky.social and I will be signing copies TOGETHER at @silverunicornbooks.bsky.social in Acton, MA on March 15 at 11:00 am. We hope our MA friends can join us. #edusky #kidlit

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Marcie Flinchum Atkins @marciefatkins.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I’m so excited for people to read Matilda Young’s story of fighting for woman suffrage. In bookstores today! #suffrage #suffragists #womenshistorymonth www.onemorepagebooks.com/one-step-for...

One Step Forward by Marcie Flinchum Atkins. Now available in bookstores. Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. The cover has Matilda Young, a suffragist, surrounded by flowers and ribbons that say “Votes for Women.” “Powerful, necessary reading”—Kirkus Starred Review “This coming-of-age story intertwined with women’s fight to vote creates a forceful story.” —School Library Journal Starred Review. Order your signed copy now at: bit.ly/OSFAtkins

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Marcie Flinchum Atkins @marciefatkins.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Women have been protesting for more than 100 years. The first (but not the last) women’s march was on March 3, 1913. You can read more about the march on HarperStacks blog. harperstacks.com/blogs/blog/m...

Black and white photo of the women’s march of 1913. With the Capitol building in the background, women march down Pennsylvania Avenue. The group in the foreground are nurses dressed in white. March 3, 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession. One hundred twelve years ago today, women marched down Pennsylvania Avenue, the day before Woodrow Wilson was inaugurated. In some spots along the Avenue, men yelled at them, ripped their clothing, and closed in on the march. They persisted.

One Step Forward by Marcie Flinchum Atkins Versify/HarperCollins March 4, 2025 Available for preorder now: bit.ly/OSFAtkins “Powerful, necessary reading” — Kirkus Starred Review

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Marcie Flinchum Atkins @marciefatkins.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

I’m so grateful that SLJ gave my book a starred review!! ⭐️ I rely on this journal so much for my own collection, so I’m thrilled to have my book recognized by them!

School Library Journal starred review: "Poetry reflects the events and emotions—a square concrete poem for her jail cell, text side by side as [characters] walk and talk, and shrinking text as Matilda feels silenced. Women finding and employing their voices is a theme. A forceful story while chronicling parts of the suffrage movement often ignored." Preorder your signed copy now at: bit.ly/OSFAtkins The book cover shows Matilda Young surrounded by flowers and ribbons that say “Votes for Women.” One Step Forward by Marcie Flinchum Atkins is on the cover.

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Marcie Flinchum Atkins @marciefatkins.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

#haikusaturday February storm snow cones served In the moon garden

Peaks of snow piled on spent hydrangea blooms

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Jen @popgoesthereader.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Not sure what to read next? This list of 55 exciting new YA books being published in March 2025 might be a great place to start! popgoesthereader.com/hot-off-the-... #BookSky #KidLit #YALit

A compilation of ten March 2025 YA book covers including Camila Núñez's Year of Disasters, Say A Little Prayer, Strange Bedfellows, Kirby's Lessons For Falling (In Love), One Step Forward, We Are Villains, Every Borrowed Heart, Gradchanted, Take A Chance On Me and You Belong Here.

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Marcie Flinchum Atkins @marciefatkins.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

March is Women’s History Month. What woman would you like people to know about this March? Who do you admire from history? www.marcieatkins.com/suffrage-his... #womenshistorymonth

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Marcie Flinchum Atkins @marciefatkins.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I’m so grateful to Irene Latham for hosting me at her blog today. She had awesome prompts for me to answer. Check them out here: irenelatham.blogspot.com/2025/02/one-...

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Marcie Flinchum Atkins @marciefatkins.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Matilda Young, the protagonist in my new book was in Washington, DC for most of her life. She was curator for a children’s museum and a charter member of the Children’s Book Guild. www.marcieatkins.com/suffrage-his...

Newspaper photo from the Evening Star September 7, 1945 of two young men carrying a dollhouse off the bed of a truck. Caption: Two of the Children’s Museum boy members helping yesterday at moving the exhibits in storage. They are Stephen Stewart, 14, 4320 Verplanck place NW and Lloyd Hinton, 15, 2831 Twenty-eight street NW. Another black and white photo is of the Conduit Road School. A small single story building with four windows. Title: Matilda Young Museum Curator. As an adult, Matilda Young founded a children’s museum in Washington, DC. Over time, it was in several locations including one location on Massachusetts Avenue which was sold to developers. The museum also was housed in the old Conduit Road School on MacArthur Blvd. There is currently a children’s museum in DC, but it is a different one than founded by Matilda Young.

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Marcie Flinchum Atkins @marciefatkins.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Research is my jam and finding cool details is part of the fun. Piecing together Matilda’s story took some digging. I found this National Woman’s Party (NWP) switchboard operator schedule with her name on it at the Library of Congress. #suffragists

A typed schedule for the National Woman’s Party switchboard operators from February 1918. Matilda Young is on the schedule from 9am-1pm and from 2pm-5pm. She’s also on the schedule for holidays 9am-3:30pm. Title: Matilda Young as switchboard operator. Text: While going through the National Woman’s Party (NWP) records at the Library of Congress, I ran across this slip of paper. In February 1918 (and perhaps other times), Matilda Young was busy working for the NWP as a switchboard operator.

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Marcie Flinchum Atkins @marciefatkins.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Matilda Young was at Occoquan Workhouse on the “Night of Terror” when suffragists were beaten. Learning about this event first made me ask questions about the suffragists’ story. #suffragists www.marcieatkins.com/suffrage-his...

Black and white photo of a cell at Occoquan Workhouse from the Library of Congress. November 14, 1917 “Night of Terror” In November 1917, many suffragists were arrested and later sentenced to time at Occoquan Workhouse in Lorton, Virginia. Matilda Young was just 19 at the time. Lucy Burns said about that night: “Seized by guards from behind, flung off my feet, and shot out of the room. All of us were seized by men guards and dragged to cells in men’s part.” Occoquan Workhouse is now Workhouse Arts Center and has the Lucy Burns Museum that honors the suffrage story.

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Marcie Flinchum Atkins @marciefatkins.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Matilda Young didn’t protest alone. Suffragists took turns at the White House gates and later outside of the Capitol building. Matilda protested with (and was arrested with) Rose Winslow (also know as Ruza Wenclawska) who had been a factory worker until suffering from TB. #suffragists #versenovel

Matilda Young and Ruza Wenclawska (aka Rose Winslow) Matilda protested with other suffragists, including Rose Winslow. In some of the suffragist information, she is referred to as Rose. In some publications, she’s referred to by her Polish name, Ruza Wenclawska. Rose and Matilda were arrested together one afternoon in October 1917 as men were getting off work at 4:30pm and saw them protesting.

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