Angel Barber’s debut title Dandelion Travels is now available from West 44 Books! Angel Barber is a 19-year-old author and poet from Buffalo, New York. He has taught youth workshops on novels-in-verse for the Just Buffalo Writing Center, participated in readings in the Buffalo poetry community, and is currently pursuing a degree in television film arts at…
Kymbali Craig is a writer, actor, musician, spoken word performance artist, visual artist, and educator. She is a native of Chicago, Illinois, and Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and now resides in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Kymbali was the artist-in-residence at Paul Robeson High School in Brooklyn and the creative director of Bailey’s Café, a…
Survive and Keep Surviving Author: Mel Mallory After being sexually assaulted at a party, Mara started experiencing paranoia and delusional thoughts, which resulted in a public psychotic episode freshman year. Now a senior in high school, Mara feels like an outcast who would rather keep to herself than risk being judged. However, the only way…
Kate Karyus Quinn is an avid reader and menthol chapstick addict. After living in both California and Tennessee, she returned to her hometown of Buffalo, New York, and now lives there with her husband, three children, and one enormous dog. She is the author of young adult novels Another Little Piece, (Don’t You) Forget About…
Teachers, administrators, and key team members like counselors and school psychologists can harness the power of reading to teach critical social-emotional skills to students in innovative ways: Does your school have an advisory program? Select one book and make it the basis for discussion over several weeks of advisory. Does your school have a pattern of incidents…