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The LA Times Jacket Copy blog has posted the fol­low­ing story: Lau­rie Halse Anderson’s 1999 young adult novel, “Speak,” which was a final­ist for the L.A. Times Book Award and the National Book Award, was selected as School Library Journal’s Best Book of the Year and received numer­ous other hon­ors, was the focus of con­tro­versy in …

Show Us Your Soul Cel­e­bra­tion and Give­away! Soul Enchi­lada is all about Hal­loween and Dia de los Muer­tos (aka Day of the Dead). To cel­e­brate the sea­son, I’m giv­ing away 13 copies of the audio­book of Soul Enchi­lada. Pro­duced by award-winning pub­lisher Bril­liance and fea­tur­ing the voice of debut reader Michelle Car­men Gomez, the audio­book …