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“We get caught up in the ‘shoulds’”: Erin Dionne & Andrea Gellerstein

2 Apr 2026 11:37 AM | Anonymous

Wilson Middle School (Natick) Special Education Administrator Andrea Gellerstein and children’s book author Erin Dionne are not only friends, but library advocates! They joined us to discuss ideas professional and personal that can help our practice in school libraries. Erin is presenting at the Mass Reading Conference (https://www.massreading.org/-conference), being held just prior to the MSLA conference and also judged in the MSLA bookmark contest. We discuss genre, AI, educating the next generation of writers and the library’s role in these ideas.

Discussed stuff:

Montserrat College of Art, Prof. Erin Dionne, https://www.montserrat.edu/staff/erin-dionne/ 

Kate Messner, Trouble with Heroes

Renee Watson’s All the Blues in the Sky

The Civil War of Amos Abernathy Michael Leali

Special Teams by Fred Bowen

History Smashers, Kate Messner

Loree Griffin Burns, https://loreeburns.com/ 

Nancy Costaldo, https://nancycastaldo.com/ 

Melissa Stewart, https://melissa-stewart.com/ 

Brian Lies, https://www.brianlies.com/ 

Christine Soontornvat, All 13 https://soontornvat.com/

Christine Soontornvat, Wish in the Dark

Christine Soontornvat, Last Mapmaker

Erin Dionne, Shiver by the Sea, https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/VE6/shiver-by-the-sea/

Stephen King

The House with a Clock in Its Walls, John Bellairs

Fainth Erin Hicks, Universal Monsters: The Mummy https://www.skybound.com/universal-monsters-the-mummy/comics/issue-1 

Brian “Smitty” Smith, Meet Ballpoint! https://conskipper.com/transformers-worst-bot-ever-meet-ballpoint-creators-brian-smitty-smith-and-marz-jr-the-conskipper-interview/ 

Hunger Games

David Kelly, Ballpark Mysteries, https://davidakellybooks.com/books/series/ballpark-mysteries/ 

Jarrett Lerner, https://jarrettlerner.com/ 

Anthropic AI Class Action Lawsuit, https://www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/  

If Looks Could Kill, Julie Berry https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/If-Looks-Could-Kill/Julie-Berry/9781534470811

Eli Brown, Oddity, https://www.eli-brown.com/ 

Eli Brown, Mooncussers

Justina Ireland, Dread Nation, https://www.harpercollins.com/products/dread-nation-justina-ireland?variant=40827474313250 

Warrior Girl Unearthed, Angeline Boulley, https://angelineboulley.com/ 

Shrinking, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15677150/ 

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, https://www.netflix.com/title/81758849?fromWatch=true Derry Girls, https://www.channel4.com/programmes/derry-girls



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