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Earlier this month, Chief Meteorologist for KARE 11 News Belinda Jensen shared her new six-book series Bel the Weather Girl with young fans at the Wild Rumpus in South Minneapolis. Belinda taught readers that weather is not so scary once you understand it.   Making a cloud! Belinda’s daughter helped with the experiment. You can see Belinda at […]Read more "Bel the Weather Girl!"

Nadia Abushanab Higgins (above) and I had a great conversation recently about Feminism: Reinventing the F-Word (cover below), her new Spring 2016 YA nonfiction title for TFCB. In its recent starred review, Booklist praises the work, saying, “Higgins’ Feminism: Reinventing the F-Word offers a comprehensive and stunningly up-to-date account of the history of feminism.…With plenty […]Read more "Meet Nadia Abushanab Higgins"

It’s always dangerous to ask a person between the ages of 10 and 14, “What do you want?” Scratch that. It’s dangerous to ask any person that question. Which doesn’t mean you shouldn’t ask it—only that you should be prepared. People often want surprising, frightening, contradictory, impossible things. In many creative writing classes, “What does […]Read more "A Call for Middle-Grade Fiction Submissions"

This year’s race to the White House is certainly getting interesting. If you’re like me and you find yourself eating up the televised debates, social media discussions, newspaper editorials, and all the other media frenzy surrounding the upcoming election, then you’ll love our book Media: From News Coverage to Political Advertising (cover pictured). It’s just […]Read more "Election-Year Media: Making Sense of the Hype"

Happy Free Book Friday, everyone! First, congratulations to Alyssa Annico, who’s won Belinda Jensen’s Bel the Weather Girl series.  Alyssa, please send your address to publicity@lernerbooks.com and we’ll get your books in the mail! We’ve got a great YA giveaway today: Tripping Back Blue by debut author Kara Storti. Finn is a 17-year-old full of paradoxes. He’s […]Read more "Free Book Friday: Tripping Back Blue"

Today, meet our digital support analyst, Spencer Hanson! 1. What brings you to Lerner? I came [as an intern] to Lerner to get real experience in publishing, and thanks to good timing and putting in my best effort, I landed a job. I accepted the position of digital support analyist because I believe in this […]Read more "Meet a Lerner: Spencer Hanson"

Special thanks to Spencer Hanson for the following post! April is National Turn Off Your TV Month, a grassroots event promoting awareness of the negative effects of excessive screen time. Take the challenge to not watch any television for a week or even the rest of the month. American families on average spend 4-5 hours a day […]Read more "National Turn-Off Your TV Month"