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By Cynthia Leitich Smith for Cynsations Congratulations to Jeff Crosby on the release of Rockabilly Goats Gruff (Holiday House, 2014). From the promotional copy: Three rockin' billy goats turn a grumpy troll into the biggest rockabilly fan at the honky...

Book of the Month Sugar Man: The Life, Death and Resurrection of Sixto Rodriguez by Craig Bartholomew Strydom and Stephen ‘Sugar’ Segerman In the summer of 1972, during a compulsory stint in the South African military, Stephen ‘Sugar’ Segerman heard...

Sexual orientation is a big part of a teen’s identity and the protagonists in the latest books for young adults grapple with that complex question, including Alyssa Brugman’s Alex as Well, Samantha Hale’s Everything Changes, and an anthology of writings...

By tweeting this syndicated post, you can earn promotional tweets from me as part of the Amazon Tweet Exchange. Details here. Can bookstores survive in the era of ebooks and ecommerce? Cover links to Amazon.com Dramatic changes in the publishing industry...

*All events have been moved inside due to weather. Those locations have been updated below.* To celebrate the end of the festival, Fall for the Book is gathering at George Mason’s Fairfax Campus in true festival style. On Saturday, October 3, a whopping...