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Kendra Felder @kendrafelder.bsky.social · 19h

All Calliope wanted for the summer before 7th grade was to advocate for a community garden for again. A magical scavenger hunt through NYC was not in her plans. The appearance of glowing clues changed that. Will this be her 🔑 to save the family bakery from shutting down? #DVPit #MG #CF #BVM

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Kendra Felder @kendrafelder.bsky.social · 22h

Calliope’s summer of advocating for a community garden turns when glowing magic clues appear from her mom lead her and friends on a scavenger hunt. Add her Dad’s bakery on the verge of foreclosure and exploring her first crush to mix. What could this search around NYC lead to? #DVPit #MG #CF #BVM

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Kendra Felder @kendrafelder.bsky.social · 1d

In a Just A Pinch of Magic x North of Supernova mash up, Calliope’s summer of gardening and astrology takes a turn when magic notes from her mom led to a scavenger around NYC. Calliope is faced with how to save her dad’s bakery from closing or lose all she’s known for good. #DVPit #BVM #MG #CF

Green starlike succulents with red center hues.

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Kendra Felder @kendrafelder.bsky.social · 1d

Join 12 year old Calliope in the summer before seventh grade on a NYC baking journey
🌳Environmentally conscious tween
♎️ Astrology Nerd
🧁🚫Family Bakery
👦🏼👧🏽First Crush
👨🏽Single Dad
🫥 Invisible Mom
🫆✨Mystery
🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Community
📫 Letter Writing
#DVPit #MG #BVM #CF

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Kendra Felder @kendrafelder.bsky.social · 16d

Shana Tova! Wishing all my Jewish friends a sweet and abundant new year!

Apple tree with bushels of greenish-yellow apples with light red spots and green leaves.

Kendra Felder @kendrafelder.bsky.social · 18d

#PitBlk Taking a leap on my middle grade contemporary fantasy. ✨

Kendra Felder @kendrafelder.bsky.social · Sep 2

Kendra Felder @kendrafelder.bsky.social · Aug 23

Flowers around the garden’ 👩🏾‍🌾

Kendra Felder @kendrafelder.bsky.social · Aug 16

#Q #MG #PosterPit #C #SPF

Image of chocolate macarons with chocolate filling. Text top: London the best friend. Kaliya P the MC Elliott, the crush.
Text center: slice of sapphire skies
Text bottom: middle grade, contemporary, mystery in parentheses.
Text bottom: Twelve-year-old Calliope’s summer plans change when magical notes appear out of nowhere. The family bakery facing foreclosure pushes her to dive into decoding the mystery. Could it lead to more than the end of Slice of Sapphire Skies?

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Christiana Doucette @doucette515.bsky.social · Aug 16

12yo #STEM genius Ada Lovelace hides prohibited poetry, & dreams of flight to freedom.

Both risk the volitile connection with mom.

She must persuade Lady Byron STEM & dreams are the future, or lose the tenuous connection completely.

STARFISH X ENOLA HOLMES

#MG #AG #HF #PO #NIV #PosterPit #KidLit

Ada Figures: a verse novel by Christiana Doucette
Tag line: If magic is science undiscovered, then someday I'll be an enchantress.

A portrait of young Ada Byron Lovelace is flanked by her parents, mad bad and dangerous to know Lord Byron the poet, and his ex wife the mathmatical genius Annabelle Milbanks Byron. Behind Ada is a leather bound folio with a key, a white pawn, a black rook, and a white persian cat (her kitten Miss Puff). The wings she's working to build halo her. The Background is an old map of the Bifrons area where Ada Lovelace was confined away from most society. The title is framed by a blackboard with steampunk-esque gears.

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Sara M. Kapadia @sarakapadia.bsky.social · Aug 16

#PosterPitQ #YA #F #BIPOC
Between newfound magic skills, saving her Indian ancestor, juggling her studies, and dealing with her mother's disapproval, Sonali can not decipher Rav's mixed messages. Is her talking crow the only true friend? Time will tell...

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Kendra Felder @kendrafelder.bsky.social · Aug 16

Journey along with 12-year old Calliope in this middle grade story full of magic ✨✨

#Posterpit #Q #MG #C #SPF

Background of night sky full of stars and a galaxy. The title of the novel slice of sapphire skies is overlaying a white opaque flag like banner. Below this is the image of a bakery display with chocolate donuts and berry covered croissants. Under that image two side-by-side pictures on the middle left is a picture of succulents, laid out in a tray form dusted with red yellow blue and green paint splatters next to that is the image of a street of brownstone houses underneath. These images is another opaque white underlay with the following statement written out: Kalapi had a summer full of astrology lessons and bakery deliveries all planned out, until magical notes from her not so present mom began appearing out of nowhere, sending her on a hot through New York City to decode alongside the mystery, alongside her best friend and the boy she has a crush on.
Underneath this statement is the phrase coming to a query inbox near you

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Kendra Felder @kendrafelder.bsky.social · Aug 16

Follow Twelve-year-old Calliope’s hunt through NYC.

🌳 Environmentally conscious tween
♎️ Astrology Nerd
🧁🚫Family Bakery
👦🏼👧🏽First Crush
👨🏽Single Dad
🫥 Invisible Mom
🫆✨Mystery
🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Community
📫 Letter Writing

#PosterPit #C #MG #SPF #Q

A cream colored background with the image of a bakery displaying croissants in different variations taking up the bottom half of the poster. On display in the middle in a bright blue font is tge title Slice of Sapphire Skies with the following underneath in three separate rows: Mystery, Astrology, Bakery.
A quote from the novel is underneath the row of words: “Let your dreams puff up like marshmallows and memories ripen like limes.”
On the middle right above the bakery image are the words in a light gray font: Coming soon to your query inbox

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Kendra Felder @kendrafelder.bsky.social · Aug 7

Follow Twelve-year-old Calliope’s hunt through NYC.

🌳 Environmentally conscious tween
♎️ Astrology Nerd
🧁🚫Family Bakery
👦🏼👧🏽First Crush
👨🏽Single Dad
🫥 Invisible Mom
🫆✨Mystery
🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Community
📫 Letter Writing

#Q #QuestPit #MG #C #S

A collage of pictures in a row of six. Top Left: A tween mixed race girl with caramel skin and curly brown hair. She is smiling. Top Right: A bakery window display with various croissants. Middle Left: a desk with a card on top of it that reads The MAGIC happens right where you STAND. Middle Right: A photograph of buildings between trees at Central Park in New York. Bottom Left: a clear night sky full of stars Bottom Right: A sign hanging in a glass window that reads CLOSED

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Kendra Felder @kendrafelder.bsky.social · Aug 6

Twelve-year-old Calliope’s summer plans change when magical notes appear out of nowhere. The family bakery facing foreclosure pushes her to dive into decoding the mystery. Could it lead to more than the end of Slice of Sapphire Skies?

JUST A PINCH OF MAGIC X NORTH OF SUPERNOVA

#MG #C #Q #QuestPit

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Lit Kids Magazine @litkidsmagazine.bsky.social · Jun 1

It's official! Issue 6: Earth is out in the world! 🌎
Congratulations to all the young creatives featured in this Issue. Please share their work far and wide to help them celebrate! And subscribe to our website for future updates. Keep shining! ✨
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#kidlit

a frog is hugging the earth with the words we love the earth

ALT: a frog is hugging the earth with the words we love the earth

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Manuscript Academy @manuscriptacademy.bsky.social · May 28

Why does it take SO long to get an agent?

We discuss the common misconception that silence from an agent means rejection--and what in the world agents are doing when NOT replying.

When is it "no response no" and when is it a rejection? Tune in to find out!

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Silence Is NOT Rejection: What's REALLY Happening In Agents' Inboxes with Agent Savannah Brooks

YouTube video by The Manuscript Academy, LLC

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Lesley Roessing @lesleyroessing.bsky.social · May 5

Readings for JEWISH-American Heritage Month, books featuring Contemporary Jewish characters

For recommendations and review, see www.literacywithlesley.com/novels-featu...

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Kendra Felder @kendrafelder.bsky.social · May 18

Miriam gives really great feedback!

miriamsf.bsky.social @miriamsf.bsky.social · May 17

To celebrate the end of the school year, I'm offering dev edit specials on YA & MG manuscripts along with query packets. If you're in the trenches and not getting requests, please reach out! Please repost to spread the word! #MG #writing #YA
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Kendra Felder @kendrafelder.bsky.social · May 16

May is Jewish American Heritage Month…what are you reading? #MGLit #JewishAmericanHetitageMonth

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Middle Grade Coast-to-Coast @mgcoast2coast.bsky.social · May 15

Author @melissadassori.bsky.social shares two of her favorite #MGLit books by Jewish authors featuring Jewish characters to celebrate Jewish American Heritage Month!

HONEY and ME by Meira Drazin
WHERE YOU'VE GOT TO BE by Caroline Gertler

#jewishamericanheritagemonth #kidlit #EduSky #TLsky

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Macmillan Children's School & Library Marketing @mackidssl.bsky.social · Apr 29

With Jewish American Heritage Month coming up in May we wanted to draw your attention to our resource center featuring stories by @kalynjosephson.bsky.social, @brigityoungbooks.bsky.social, @baronchrisbaron.bsky.social, and more! bit.ly/4iZi0He

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Rebecca Weber 🙂🐈‍⬛📰 @rweberwrites.bsky.social · Apr 25

To celebrate a month since Loophole's birthday, I'm hosting a BOOK GIVEAWAY!
Win a signed paperback by liking, commenting, and reposting by midnight. And don't forget to add Loophole to your GR TBR! Thank you for your support! 🤗
www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
#kidlit #giveaway #readers

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Kendra Felder @kendrafelder.bsky.social · Apr 24

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Holocaust Remembrance Day

Do something today to remember the 6 million.

One talk in middle school gave me a perspective that I’ve never forgotten…#NeverAgain #NeverForget #historycantbeerased

TikTok video by kendra

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Kendra Felder @kendrafelder.bsky.social · Apr 19

Calliope never expected her summer to be like this; but from the first glowing clue she was hooked and ready for an adventure. #PosterPit #PosterPitQ #MG #C #M

Background image of a hand stretched out holding a string of fairy lights. This hand is set against a teal blue background with what appears to be blurred teal lights or circles. I’ll close the top of the page in three separate columns. Are the words: scavenger hunt, Family owned Bakery and coming-of-age. Offset in the center of the page is the novel title: Slice of Sapphire Skies in various shades of blue to match the background image. Below the outstretched hand is a blurb of the novel that reads: Calliope had a summer full of astrology lessons and bakery deliveries all planned out, until magical notes from her not so present mom began appearing out of nowhere, sending her on a hunt through NYC to decode the mystery.
Under the blurb offset to the left bottom of the image is the phrase coming to a query inbox near you. Offer to the right bottom of the image is the phrase a middle grade novel written by Kendra Felder.

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