KJZZ's Lit Squad
There's a lot of talk about the kinds of books students should and should not be reading, and what books kids should have access to in libraries. At the same time, there are more books being published that deal with issues of race, gender and sexual orientation. The Show talks to the authors of some of those books in the series Lit Squad.
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The NDN Girls Book Club is a new group aimed at helping Native American writers. It’s the brainchild of poet Kinsale Drake, and the group features… -
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More and more school districts are facing challenges from parents and other community members who want certain books out of classrooms or libraries. It…
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Dusti Bowling writes middle-grade books, as well as chapter books for younger readers. Bowling grew up in Arizona and still lives in the Valley; most of…
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R. Eric Thomas writes for TV, the stage and has written two non-fiction books. But he’s now jumped into the young adult genre with a novel called "Kings…
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Meet Jamie Sumner. She taught high school English for more than a decade before starting to write books for middle-grade readers — generally between 8 and…
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There has been a lot of talk over the last year or so about the kinds of books students should and should not be reading in school, and what books kids…
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There's a lot of talk about the kinds of books students should and should not be reading, and what books kids should have access to in libraries. At the…