Podcast appearances and mentions of Celia C Perez

⏰Listening commitment: 9 minutes When 12 year old Addie's step dad proposes the idea of adopting her, Addie sets off to find her biological dad. With no help from the adults in her life, Mom included, she finds him and learns she comes from a long line of Mexican wrestlers. She meets Manny (her dad, but she can't get herself to call him that) and loves spending time with her new found abuela, abuelo, cousins, and uncles. Addie loves her new family and all of their special traditions, except that Manny remains distant. Enjoy this multi-generational story filled with love, hope, and big decisions. Transcript here

In this episode: - Aquarius Sun - Sagittarius Moon - Our musings on the theme "A Sense of Space" - The Narcissism Spectrum - Our recommendations: Neither Wolf Nor Dog

Welcome to Nutmeg Book Drops: Middle School Edition, a podcast produced by Librarians ConneCT. Librarians ConneCT is a group of public and school librarians from throughout the state of Connecticut. Each week, we'll discuss two of the 2022 Intermediate Nutmeg Nominees, perfect for readers in grades 7-8. If you want to learn more about the books being discussed, listen to the first few minutes of the podcast for a preview. When we get to our spoiler discussion, just pause the episode and head to your local library to pick up a copy of the books. Rejoin us when you're finished to hear our thoughts. We'd love to hear from you! Email us at librariansconnect@gmail.com or find us online at bit.ly/librariansconnect. This episode features a discussion of Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish by Pablo Cartaya, published by Viking Books for Young Readers and The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Perez, published by Viking Books for Young Readers. Please note that all ideas and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the individual presenting them and in no way reflect upon our libraries or Librarians ConneCT. This podcast is not sponsored by or affiliated with any specific library, author, publisher, or other entity.

Some people really like checking items off of lists. When it comes to reading or viewing options, there is a plethora of lists to choose from. In this episode, Jill and Josh talk about ideas for lists based on the library's inventory. Due to space limits, not all titles mentioned are listed below.Suggest a Topic: circulation@hamnerlibrary.orgFeatured Resource: SOVALUe e-Book CollectionOther Resources:List ChallengesBooks Mentioned:Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (YA F Car)The BFG by Roald Dahl (J F Dah)Coraline by Neil Gaiman (e-Book)The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Perez (J F Per)The Godfather by Mario PuzoHoles by Louis Sachar (e-Book)Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling (J F Bow)In the Key of Nira Ghani by Natasha Deen (YA F Dee)In Your Shoes by Donna Gephart (J F Gep)The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien (F Tol)Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers (e-Book)The Maze Runner by James Dashner (YA F Dash)Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (F Doy)Wonder by R. J. Palacio (YA F Pal)Movies and TV Shows Mentioned:Alice in Wonderland (J DVD F Ali)The BFG (J DVD F BFG)The Blair Witch Project (DVD F Bla)CoralineGhost Adventures (DVD 133.12 Bag)The GodfatherHolesThe Lord of the Rings - Animated The Lord of the Rings - Directed by Peter Jackson (DVD F Lor)Mary PoppinsThe Maze Runner (YA DVD F Maz)Sherlock Holmes (YA DVD F She)Wonder (DVD F Won)

Karina and Matthew talk about the climate change, young activists, and a needed willingness for adults to listen, not just to these young voices, but also to one another. Joining is special guest Carole Lindstrom, author of Girls Dance, Boys Fiddle and the upcoming We Are Water Protectors. This episode is sponsored by our Book Riot Blind Dates with Books contest, by Starscape, publisher of bestselling author, W. Bruce Cameron's Puppy Tales series, and by Roar, the YA imprint of Lion Forge and publisher of Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more kidlit news and recommendations, sign up for our The Kids Are All Right newsletter! RELEVANT LINKS: 'We Have Not Come Here to Beg World Leaders to Care,' 15-Year-Old Greta Thunberg Tells COP24. 'We Have Come to Let Them Know Change Is Coming' (COP24 Climate Talks in 2015) (via Common Dreams) Greta Thunberg to world leaders: 'How dare you – you have stolen my dreams and my childhood' (video) (The Guardian) "When ice melts, polar bears use 5x more energy to swim instead of walk" (video) Stand with Standing Rock CBC's Tim Fontaine shares stories from Standing Rock and the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline (Unreserved Podcast) Autumn Peltier, 13-year-old water advocate, addresses UN (video) Woodsy the Owl Smokey Bear FernGully: The Last Rainforest BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: Picture Books: Crab Cake: Turning the Tide Together by Andrea Tsurumi Water is Water by Miranda Paul, illustrated by Jason Chin If Polar Bears Disappeared by Lily Williams Our House is on Fire: Greta Thunberg’s Call to Save the Planet by Jeanette Winter Graphic Novels: I'm Not a Plastic Bag by Rachel Hope Allison; forward by Jeff Corwin - the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Middle Grade: Strange Birds: A Field Guide for Ruffling Feathers by Celia C. Perez Nonfiction: The Wondrous Workings of Planet Earth by Rachel Ignotofsky Ice: Chilling Stories from a Disappearing World by DK Publishing Let us know what books or topics you've been sharing this week, or if you have a suggestion or book recommendation for an upcoming episode. Find us on email (kidlitthesedays@bookriot.com), Twitter (@KarinaYanGlaser and @MatthewWinner), or Instagram (@KarinaIsReadingAndWriting and @MatthewCWinner).

Join us this week for an interview with the author of The Friendship Lie, Rebecca Donnely. We talk about the hard-hitting stuff here: garbage games, Lulu VanRobot, book recs. Just how many sad questions can Maggie ask in a single episode? Get ready to sing some baby shark and laugh your little garbologist butts off. ENTER THE GIVEAWAY HERE Connect with Rebecca Donnelly: Website . Twitter Connect with Booked All Night: Twitter . Facebook Follow Jess: Twitter . Facebook Follow Maggie: Twitter Follow Dan: Twitter Book Recs From The Episode The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin The Vanderbeekers of 141st St by Karina Yan Glaser The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Perez Stanley Will Probably Be Fine by Sally J Pla, Illustrated by Steve Wolfhard Shouting At The Rain by Linda Mullaly Hunt The Serpent's Secret by Sayantani DasGupta Game of Stars by Sayantani DasGupta --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bookedallnight/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bookedallnight/support

Intro Hi everyone and welcome to the Books Between Podcast! I believe in the power of books to help spark deep conversations and help us think through the big ideas in life. My goal is to help you connect kids between 8-12 with those amazing books and share inspiring conversations with the authors and educators who make that magic happen. I’m your host, Corrina Allen - a mom of two, a 5th grade teacher, and still a bit tired from our trip to the beach yesterday! This is Episode #54 and today I’m sharing a conversation with Jarred Amato - a high school English teacher and founder of the ProjectLIT Community. Perhaps like you, I kept hearing about this thing called ProjectLIT and I kept bumping into conversations on Twitter about it. And I since I had questions and definitely wanted to know more - I figured you might as well.  Some disclosure - after chatting with Jarred and after learning more from a wonderful session at NerdCamp last week ( a big thank you to Kimiko, Ashleigh, and Lindsey) , I have decided to start a ProjectLIT Book Club at my school this year for 4th and 5th graders. And promptly bought a shirt and a tank and cup and a hat… because, well - like I told Jarred - I have no chill! Alright - take a listen! Jarred Amato - Interview Outline Welcome to the podcast! Can you take a minute to introduce yourself to our listeners? ProjectLIT What is ProjectLIT and how did it get started? What does a chapter do? How are the books selected? What are the books for the 2018-19 school year? If someone wanted to start a ProjectLit Chapter in their own community, what would they need to know? And what would they need to do? One of the things that makes ProjectLITstand out as more than just a book club, is the focus on service projects to increase book access in the school and community.   What are some examples of projects that chapters have been doing? Did I see you also have a Twitter Chat?   Tell me about the ProjectLIT Summit! What are your plans for the future of ProjectLIT? Your Reading Life One of the goals of this podcast is to help educators and librarians and parents inspire kids to read more and connect them with amazing books.  Did you have a special teacher or librarian who helped foster your reading life as a child? What were some of your most influential reads growing up? What have you been reading lately that you’ve liked? Links: Jarred’s website -https://jarredamato.wordpress.com Jarred on Twitter ProjectLIT on Twitter ProjectLIT Chapter Leader Application #ProjectLITChat Twitter Chat ProjectLIT swag: https://project-lit-community.myshopify.com David’s ending to Long Way Down Dollar General Grant Programs Donors Choose Books & Authors We Chatted About: Goosebumps Series Matt Christopher books The Color of Water (James McBride) Darius the Great is Not Okay (Adib Khorram) Hope Nation (Rose Brock) 2018-19 ProjectLIT Middle Grade Book Club Selections Ghost Boys (Jewell Parker Rhodes) Sunny (Jason Reynolds) I am Alfonso Jones (Tony Medina) Amal Unbound (Aisha Saeed) Rebound (Kwame Alexander) Like Vanessa (Tami Charles) The Stars Beneath Our Feet (David Barclay Moore) Time Bomb (Joelle Charbonneau) Wishtree (Katherine Applegate) Amina’s Voice (Hena Khan) The First Rule of Punk (Celia C. Perez) The Parker Inheritance (Varian Johnson)   2018-19 ProjectLIT Young Adult Book Club Selections The Poet X (Elizabeth Acevedo) When I Was the Greatest (Jason Reynolds) Born a Crime (Trevor Noah) Speak (Laurie Halse Anderson) Tradition (Brenden Kiely) The 57 Bus (Dashka Slater) Allegedly (Tiffany Jackson) Odd One Out (Nic Stone) Pride (Ibi Zoboi) Children of Blood and Bone (Tomi Adeyemi) I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Erika L. Sanchez) Dread Nation (Justina Ireland) On the Come Up (Angie Thomas) Closing Alright, that wraps up our show this week! If you have a question about how to connect kids between 8-12 to books they’ll love or a suggestion about a topic we should cover, I would love to hear from you. You can email me at booksbetween@gmail.com or message me on Twitter/Instagram at the handle @Books_Between. Books Between is a proud member of the Education Podcast Network. This network features podcasts for educators, created by educators. For more great content visit edupodcastnetwork.com Thank you so much for joining me this week. You can get an outline of interviews and a full transcript of all the other parts of our show at MGBookVillage.org. And, if you are liking the show, please leave us some love on iTunes or Stitcher so others can discover us as well. Thanks and see you soon!  Bye!  

  Intro Hi and welcome to the Books Between Podcast! I believe that books can change your life for the better. I know because books did that for me. And I want to help you connect kids with those amazing, life-shaping books and bring you inspiring (and fun!) conversations with the authors and educators who make that magic happen.  Every other Monday, I bring you book talks, interviews, and ideas for getting great books into the hands of kids between 8-12. I am Corrina Allen - a mom of an eight and ten year old, a 5th grade teacher, and excited about two things this week!  First, the Winter Olympics.  And second - today’s announcement of the American Library Association Youth Media Awards including the Caldecott, the Newbery, The Coretta Scott King, and lots more!  I am so excited for those authors and illustrators who will be getting those early morning phone calls. I’ll be streaming it with my class and can’t wait to chat more with you about it! This is Episode #43 and today I’m talking about some fails, some wins, and bringing you a conversation with author Anna Meriano about her debut novel (and the MG at Heart January Book Club pick) Love, Sugar, Magic! But first I have some exciting news to share with you — I’m joining the fabulous team at MGBookvillage.org!  MGBookVillage has become THE place for all things middle grade, and I’m so thrilled to be working with Annaliese Avery, Jarrett Lerner, and Kathie MacIsaac who’ve done such an incredible job developing a home for lovers of middle grade that I can’t imagine we ever made do without it! MGBookVillage has it all; a book-release calendar, a Kids’ Corner, a monthly book club (MG at Heart), an all-day twitter chat on Mondays (#MGBookathon)—and so, so much more. And from now on it will be the new home of the Books Between podcast and where you can find all our transcripts. Three Fails & One Win And now a new segment I am calling three fails and a win. So - I am going to share with you three failures.  And then one thing that went well recently.  I think we all have the tendency to share our achievements and hide our failures, only revealing things that put us in a positive light. Inadvertently, it can lead to people feeling like they aren’t living up to all the amazingness they see on Instagram and Facebook and Pinterest, and next door. It’s an unrealistic view of teaching and parenting and it makes it seem like there are just these amazing rockstar kidlit advocates who have success after success. Nah! In the interest of acknowledging that the most learning happens through our mistakes, I’ll share three of mine with you today. And then I share something good that happened. Fail #1 Last summer I had an great conversation with Jillian Heise about #ClassroomBookADay and was so inspired to give it a try this year. (If you want to hear that conversation about the power of reading one picture book a day with your students, check out episode 30). So, at the beginning of the year I made this GIANT public display of 280 blank polaroid-style frames - all waiting for me to post colorful pictures of the books we are reading. And I have! Up until about like 40. Now - we have STILL been reading those picture books. Mostly.  We’ve missed a few days here and there, but - ugh that display has embarrassingly just... stalled. And I want to catch up but now I can’t quite remember the order of the titles we’ve read or even the names of them all.  And in fact, one of my eagle-eyed gals noticed that we have Not Quite Narwhal on there twice.  Not my best moment of this year. Fail #2 - So last summer, I secretly pre-ordered a certain book for my daughter.  I will withhold the name because it doesn’t really matter but I’ll just say that it was the next title in a fun graphic novel series that my 8 year-old daughter LOVES. She’s picky with her reading, so when she finds something she likes, I RUN to the ball. Well, I thought I was getting the Best Mom Ever award when a few weeks ago the book arrived on our stoop Tuesday afternoon and I gleefully called her into the kitchen as I whipped the book from around my back and held it out to her with a GIANT grin on my face! TA-DA!! And she….backed out of the room cringing. And then told me she’s just not into those books as much anymore.  Okay then - mom win turned into major mom fail. Fail #3 This is the one I refer to as The Armadillo Book Debacle. So, a couple weeks ago my daughter comes home upset because she’s going to have to pay $15 to replace a missing library book. Well - High Alert in the Allen household! We tear apart the house looking for it. All the bedrooms, under the couch cushions. I look at school. I call the grandparents! Nowhere is this darn Armadillo book. And my husband and daughter start to think they saw it go in the backpack and back to school. And mistakes happen, so we email the librarian and explain that we think it was returned and could she look? And I just want to say - she was extraordinarily nice about it!  And so - she’s looking all over the school for it. Yeah, you know where this is going don’t you? A couple months ago we had a party at our house. And, like happens, there comes a point when you have cleaned and scrubbed and dusted and vacuumed and people are just about to arrive! So you switch from cleaning mode to hiding mode. You know,  there’s that one dirty casserole dish in the sink so you shove it in the oven. And there’s a stack of random papers and mail and books that you haul down into the basement. Including an Armadillo book that ended up tucked away in a corner of our basement for two months. My fault.  Awkward email back to the librarian.   And…. a WIN! I have to end on a positive note. So I have this student who I love but he was tough nut to crack when trying to find a book that would hold his interest. In September, I discovered he had liked The One and Only Ivan, so I handed him my ARC of Wishtree weeks before it came out. Nope. I piled book after book after book on his desk - asking him questions about what he liked - to no avail.  It seemed like he was going to be one of those kids that you just hope the next person can help them find books they’ll love because it just didn’t click with you. But, then - I found out that he LOVES wrestling - like WWE wrestling. And a friend on #mglitchat recommended these Choose Your Own Adventure style WWE wrestling books. I order them on Amazon Prime and two days later, I slid one across his desk and his eyes just lit up!  I even caught him reading it as he walked to the bus! He read those books back and forth cover to cover for weeks. And now - he’s on to the second Tapper Twins book and on a roll and YES!!!  (I’ll link to those wrestling books in the show notes if you want to check them out. As far as I can tell there are only two of them - Race to the Rumble and then Night of Champions. Both are by Tracey West)   So, maybe my hallway display has stalled out, and I got overzealous with my child, and I embarrassed myself with the school librarian, but I helped that one kid get himself on his way. Anna Meriano - Interview Outline This week I had the opportunity to have a fantastic conversation with two authors debuting middle grade novels in 2018. Joining me today is Amanda Rawson Hill. She is the author of the upcoming book Three Rules of Everyday Magic and one of the organizers of the MG at Heart Book Club. Her and I hopped on Skype to chat with Anna Meriano about her debut novel (and the January MG at Heart Book Club pic), Love Sugar Magic. Take a listen….. Interview Outline Love, Sugar, Magic CA: Your first middle grade novel, Love Sugar Magic, debuted last month. For those listeners who haven’t yet read the book - can you tell what the story is about? CA: One of things I loved about this book was that passing down of family recipes from mother to daughter generation to generation. So - did I hear that you aren’t actually much of a baker? CA: Where did the recipes come from? CA: In your novel, each sister has a special power, depending on her birth order. First born daughters have the gift of influence, second born daughters have the talent of manifestation, and the third borns have the gift of communicating with the dead.  Which gift would YOU want to have?   ARH: I wanted to get some insight into how you wrote a big family so well... Your Writing Life CA: How long ago did you start writing Love, Sugar, Magic? ARH: You’ve talked a lot about how you worked with Cake Literary, a book packager. I was wondering what the experience of doing that from the beginning with someone else was like compared to when you’re writing a book all on your own.  And how did it affect your creative process? CA: What is Cake Literary and what is a book packager? CA: How did you end up connecting to Leo? JL: I’d be interested to hear about Anna’s experience with her debut group. The Electric Eighteens seem like such a positive and supportive bunch, and they’re so active in promoting one another. I’d love to hear what Anna got out of being a part of such a group — both in practical terms of promotion and things, and emotionally and psychologically, too, since the debut experience can be so confusing and exciting and overwhelming and joyful and terrifying and a million other things, too! CA: The more I chat with authors about their process, the more I want to share with my students the idea that what they see as a finished story is the very tip of a gigantic iceburg of planning and writing and revising that never sees the light of day. What below-the-surface part of your writing process do you really enjoy? And what parts are challenging?   Your Reading Life CA: Something that I think about a lot is how sometimes it only takes ONE person to really influence a child’s reading life - either in a positive way or sometimes in a negative way. Was there someone in your life who impacted you as a reader? C: What have you been reading lately that you’ve liked?   Links: Anna on Twitter Cake Literary website - http://www.cakeliterary.com Electric Eighteen Debut Group website - https://electriceighteens.com Anna’s Nerdy Book Club Post is here The Coco Movie   Books & Authors We Chatted About: The First Rule of Punk (Celia C. Perez) Goosebumps (R.L. Stine) Calvin & Hobbes (Bill Watterson) The Inquisitor's Tale (Adam Gidwitz) The Gauntlet (Karuna Riazi) Betty Before X (by Ilyasah Shavbazz & Renee Watson)   Closing Alright, that wraps up our show this week! If you have a question about how to connect kids between 8-12 to books they’ll love or a suggestion about a topic we should cover, I would love to hear from you. You can email me at booksbetween@gmail.com or message me on Twitter/Instagram at the handle @Books_Between. Thank you so much for joining me this week. You can get an outline of interviews and a full transcript of all the other parts of our show at MGBookVillage.org. And, if you are liking the show, please leave us some love on iTunes or Stitcher. Or even better - tell a friend about us! Thanks and see you soon!  Bye!