Debbi Michiko Florence⁷
@debbimichiko.bsky.social
#kidlit author middle grade, chapter books, picture books | Sansei 🇺🇸🇯🇵 | Highlights Foundation | ☕️🧋| 🐶💜 | Inuyasha, Studio Ghibli | positivity
Available now - A Study in Secrets (Last Chance Academy book 1)
https://debbimichikoflorence.com
Available now - A Study in Secrets (Last Chance Academy book 1)
https://debbimichikoflorence.com
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I'm 😭💙 A star from Publishers Weekly for Last Chance Academy (1): A Study in Secrets! I'm so happy! This book pubs on 3/11/25! Awesome cover art by August Zhang, design by Heather Palisi
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What a fun treasure hunt and mystery in The Last Chance Academy: A Study in Secrets by @debbimichiko.bsky.social! I really liked the friendship issues, how the kids worked them out and learned trust. A good classroom book! #MG #kidlit #edusky 📚👍🏻 #childrensbooks
September 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
What a fun treasure hunt and mystery in The Last Chance Academy: A Study in Secrets by @debbimichiko.bsky.social! I really liked the friendship issues, how the kids worked them out and learned trust. A good classroom book! #MG #kidlit #edusky 📚👍🏻 #childrensbooks
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Also snagged a few books I've been looking to get my hands on! 😁 @laurenmagaziner.bsky.social @pamvau.bsky.social @debbimichiko.bsky.social ❤️
Can't wait to dive in!!!
Can't wait to dive in!!!
June 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Also snagged a few books I've been looking to get my hands on! 😁 @laurenmagaziner.bsky.social @pamvau.bsky.social @debbimichiko.bsky.social ❤️
Can't wait to dive in!!!
Can't wait to dive in!!!
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This book will be in constant demand! The mystery, the adventure, the secret quest. I loved it!! Now I can’t wait for book 2. On to you @beth1campbell.bsky.social #bookposse @debbimichiko.bsky.social @simonkids.bsky.social
June 8, 2025 at 12:47 AM
This book will be in constant demand! The mystery, the adventure, the secret quest. I loved it!! Now I can’t wait for book 2. On to you @beth1campbell.bsky.social #bookposse @debbimichiko.bsky.social @simonkids.bsky.social
Last Chance Academy book 2 title is THE MASTERMIND’S TRAP! Cover reveal coming soon! This book will be released on 3/17/26 so you have time to read book 1 - A Study in Secrets!
May 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Last Chance Academy book 2 title is THE MASTERMIND’S TRAP! Cover reveal coming soon! This book will be released on 3/17/26 so you have time to read book 1 - A Study in Secrets!
Not AI generated! Thrilled to see Last Chance Academy on NEIBA’s Escape into Summer Reading list! See the brochure at your New England indie bookstore or newsletter. 🫶
May 23, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Not AI generated! Thrilled to see Last Chance Academy on NEIBA’s Escape into Summer Reading list! See the brochure at your New England indie bookstore or newsletter. 🫶
Happy birthday to talented best-seller author, Very Asian Book Trip partner, and amazing friend @authorgracelin.bsky.social
May 17, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Happy birthday to talented best-seller author, Very Asian Book Trip partner, and amazing friend @authorgracelin.bsky.social
Yay! So excited!
🎉📚 Bookelicious Presents: DEBBI MICHIKO FLORENCE!
Award Winning Author!
📅 5-5-26 @ 1:30p ET
ℹ️ Info & register: www.bookelicious.com/educators/bookelicious-presents-2025-26/
Includes:
⭐ Books for students
⭐ Interactive read/write/draw
⭐ Activity guide
⭐ FUN!
@debbimichiko.bsky.social
Award Winning Author!
📅 5-5-26 @ 1:30p ET
ℹ️ Info & register: www.bookelicious.com/educators/bookelicious-presents-2025-26/
Includes:
⭐ Books for students
⭐ Interactive read/write/draw
⭐ Activity guide
⭐ FUN!
@debbimichiko.bsky.social
May 17, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Yay! So excited!
I look forward to this every year and am so honored to be in community w these talented Asian American Voices @highlightsfound.bsky.social
My heart is full after an amazing weekend with this beautiful group of authors at the Asian Asian American Voices In-Community Retreat. I'm so grateful I was able to go it far exceeded anything I could have hoped [email protected] @debbimichiko.bsky.social @authorgracelin.bsky.social
May 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I look forward to this every year and am so honored to be in community w these talented Asian American Voices @highlightsfound.bsky.social
While it's frustrating that we have to fight for the Freedom to Read, I'm honored to have participated in the first Freedom Read In with amazing authors! Thank you @aabbri.bsky.social @padmatv.bsky.social @jbradley.bsky.social for organizing, and everyone who is fighting the fight!
Sharing some more photos from today’s Freedom Read-In with @debbimichiko.bsky.social & @padmatv.bsky.social in conversation #FreedomToRead #kidlit @authorsabb.bsky.social
May 10, 2025 at 10:35 AM
While it's frustrating that we have to fight for the Freedom to Read, I'm honored to have participated in the first Freedom Read In with amazing authors! Thank you @aabbri.bsky.social @padmatv.bsky.social @jbradley.bsky.social for organizing, and everyone who is fighting the fight!
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Tomorrow - May 9, 10-3 ET - join us to celebrate #ChildrensBookWeek25 & raise awareness of #FreedomToRead efforts around the country with a free, online read-a-thon.
10 a.m. - 12:45 EST : bit.ly/Read-In-am
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. EST : bit.ly/Read-In-pm
10 a.m. - 12:45 EST : bit.ly/Read-In-am
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. EST : bit.ly/Read-In-pm
May 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Tomorrow - May 9, 10-3 ET - join us to celebrate #ChildrensBookWeek25 & raise awareness of #FreedomToRead efforts around the country with a free, online read-a-thon.
10 a.m. - 12:45 EST : bit.ly/Read-In-am
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. EST : bit.ly/Read-In-pm
10 a.m. - 12:45 EST : bit.ly/Read-In-am
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. EST : bit.ly/Read-In-pm
This Friday!
Please show your support for the Freedom to Read & join authors as we read from our challenged/banned books this Friday 5/9. Please register: bit.ly/Read-In-am
bit.ly/Read-In-pm
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May 8, 2025 at 12:56 AM
This Friday!
Being in community w these amazing creators was the best! 🫶
Had a great time this past weekend at the Asian and Asian American Voices Retreat @highlightsfound.bsky.social #kidlit Thank you @authorgracelin.bsky.social and @debbimichiko.bsky.social for hosting!
May 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Being in community w these amazing creators was the best! 🫶
So fun!!! As is Grace’s new MG The Gate, The Girl, & The Dragon! Be sure to get your hands on a copy!
Many thanks to my awesome in-convo partners @ellenoh.bsky.social and @debbimichiko.bsky.social as my book tour begins! It’s been so lovely meeting my readers! I hope to see you at my upcoming events 1/2
May 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM
So fun!!! As is Grace’s new MG The Gate, The Girl, & The Dragon! Be sure to get your hands on a copy!
Please show your support for the Freedom to Read & join authors as we read from our challenged/banned books this Friday 5/9. Please register: bit.ly/Read-In-am
bit.ly/Read-In-pm
bit.ly/Read-In-pm
May 5, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Please show your support for the Freedom to Read & join authors as we read from our challenged/banned books this Friday 5/9. Please register: bit.ly/Read-In-am
bit.ly/Read-In-pm
bit.ly/Read-In-pm
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CALLING ALL #kidlit #edusky #schoolvisit #booksky #kidlitsky #skybrarian peeps!
Please join this incredible lineup of authors in our first ever FREEDOM READ-IN on MAY 9!
📕Free
📙All day (10-3 EST)
📘Virtual
📗All ages
Morning: crowdcast.io/c/z2e4i7i652g1
Afternoon: crowdcast.io/c/ky2m562xhkso
Please join this incredible lineup of authors in our first ever FREEDOM READ-IN on MAY 9!
📕Free
📙All day (10-3 EST)
📘Virtual
📗All ages
Morning: crowdcast.io/c/z2e4i7i652g1
Afternoon: crowdcast.io/c/ky2m562xhkso
May 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
CALLING ALL #kidlit #edusky #schoolvisit #booksky #kidlitsky #skybrarian peeps!
Please join this incredible lineup of authors in our first ever FREEDOM READ-IN on MAY 9!
📕Free
📙All day (10-3 EST)
📘Virtual
📗All ages
Morning: crowdcast.io/c/z2e4i7i652g1
Afternoon: crowdcast.io/c/ky2m562xhkso
Please join this incredible lineup of authors in our first ever FREEDOM READ-IN on MAY 9!
📕Free
📙All day (10-3 EST)
📘Virtual
📗All ages
Morning: crowdcast.io/c/z2e4i7i652g1
Afternoon: crowdcast.io/c/ky2m562xhkso
Thrilled to reveal the cover for Monster Maker: The Strange Creatures of Mark Nagata w words by me & awesome art by Inko Ai Takita, a PB bio about a Japanese American @marknagata.bsky.social a kaiju artist turning his childhood passion into a dream come true. Coming 11/11! Preorder now!
April 14, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Thrilled to reveal the cover for Monster Maker: The Strange Creatures of Mark Nagata w words by me & awesome art by Inko Ai Takita, a PB bio about a Japanese American @marknagata.bsky.social a kaiju artist turning his childhood passion into a dream come true. Coming 11/11! Preorder now!
Getting ready to send out my March newsletter. Just found out I can reveal Last Chance Academy 2 title in my April newsletter. Subscribers will find out before I announce on socials.
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Debbi Michiko Florence, Author for Kids and Teens
Debbi Michiko Florence is the author of Keep It Together, Keiko Carter (Scholastic/May 5, 2020) and the Jasmine Toguchi chapter book series.
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March 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Getting ready to send out my March newsletter. Just found out I can reveal Last Chance Academy 2 title in my April newsletter. Subscribers will find out before I announce on socials.
Sign up at my website: debbimichikoflorence.com
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Woohoo! I may have to turn my Winsome Bingham shelf into a bookcase! 🥰
@armyvet5.bsky.social
@armyvet5.bsky.social
March 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Woohoo! I may have to turn my Winsome Bingham shelf into a bookcase! 🥰
@armyvet5.bsky.social
@armyvet5.bsky.social
I'm signing tomorrow in New Haven CT and Stratford CT tomorrow! Hope to see you there!
March 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I'm signing tomorrow in New Haven CT and Stratford CT tomorrow! Hope to see you there!
This family (& now my friends) have been amazing supporters of me and my books for many years and Willow has grown up from reading Jasmine to my middle grades. So grateful! (She also named Fred Just Fred in the second set of Jasmine books.)
Willow just got her copy of Last Chance Academy @debbimichiko.bsky.social , and as Debbi’s biggest fan (and busy teen), she has already blocked out reading time.
Also, Bank Square Books in Mystic Connecticut is the best. 💜💜💜💜💜
Also, Bank Square Books in Mystic Connecticut is the best. 💜💜💜💜💜
March 16, 2025 at 10:06 AM
This family (& now my friends) have been amazing supporters of me and my books for many years and Willow has grown up from reading Jasmine to my middle grades. So grateful! (She also named Fred Just Fred in the second set of Jasmine books.)
My heart is full! Thank you to @authorgracelin.bsky.social for being my in-conversation partner, and thank you everyone who came to help me celebrate the launch of Last Chance Academy!
What a FUN afternoon! I spent some time with @debbimichiko.bsky.social & @authorgracelin.bsky.social in Mystic at #BankSquareBooks celebrating #TheLastAcademy #booklaunch! Saw @armyvet5.bsky.social too:) #bookjoy #joyfulteacherlibrarian #ctcaslreads @ctcasl.bsky.social @nerdcampct.bsky.social
March 16, 2025 at 10:04 AM
My heart is full! Thank you to @authorgracelin.bsky.social for being my in-conversation partner, and thank you everyone who came to help me celebrate the launch of Last Chance Academy!
Loving the audiobook of Last Chance Academy: A Study in Secrets! Thank you, Mirai, for giving voices to my characters! 🫶
March 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Loving the audiobook of Last Chance Academy: A Study in Secrets! Thank you, Mirai, for giving voices to my characters! 🫶
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@debbimichiko.bsky.social @simonkids.bsky.social A STUDY IN SECRETS pairs well with Anderson & Comport's #AstraKidsBooks HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT!
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March 13, 2025 at 10:56 AM
@debbimichiko.bsky.social @simonkids.bsky.social A STUDY IN SECRETS pairs well with Anderson & Comport's #AstraKidsBooks HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT!
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Wooohoooo @katemessner.com 🤩
Are you familiar with HISTORY SMASHERS, @katemessner.com’s wonderful nonfiction middle grade series?
Well, book ten in the series, HISTORY SMASHERS: EARTH DAY AND THE ENVIRONMENT arrives today!
We definitely recommend this thoroughly researched and highly engaging series.
Happy book birthday!
Well, book ten in the series, HISTORY SMASHERS: EARTH DAY AND THE ENVIRONMENT arrives today!
We definitely recommend this thoroughly researched and highly engaging series.
Happy book birthday!
March 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Wooohoooo @katemessner.com 🤩
💌🗝️ Thank you! I’m excited for readers to meet Meg Mizuno and friends!
Happy Book Birthday to Last Chance Academy by @debbimichiko.bsky.social 🎈🎁🎈🎁 @simonkids.bsky.social #bookposse
March 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
💌🗝️ Thank you! I’m excited for readers to meet Meg Mizuno and friends!