Tricia Springstubb

@triciaspringstubb.bsky.social HOW TO TELL A TRUE STORY has been in my TBR stack for 8 months. I just read it today and loved it!

#amreading #middlegrade #kidlit #bookboost

Thank you, Sue! You made some light shine in a dark day xxx

Many thanks from my public library--I am greatly boosting their circ with all the books you have me requesting!

A gleeful afternoon at Scrawl Books in Reston VA with buddies Wendy Shang, Barbara Roberts and Kate Albus

Me and some favorite peeps! Sharing book joy on a beautiful afternoon. xxxx to Elisa, Natalie, Bryan and everyone who joined us. #youngteenlit

We are excited to welcome back author @triciaspringstubb.bsky.social on Sat., May 24 at 1 p.m. to the Upper Arlington Public Library in celebration of her new novel, How to Tell a True Story. BONUS! Tricia will be in conversation with authors @elisastoneleahy.com and Natalie D. Richards.

Respect and support you more than EVER, educators. Thanks for the myriad things you do for students and their families.

I feel so lucky to have had the opportunity to sit down with @triciaspringstubb.bsky.social to discuss her newest upper middle grade novel, How To Tell A True Story. It was an incredibly powerful, poignant story about family and the nature of truth and kindness and one I won't soon forget.

Kindness: It's Complicated This is an essay I wrote for the School Library Journal website, Teen Librarian Toolbox.

Kindness: It's Complicated

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#EduSky

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Book birthday! HOW TO TELL A TRUE STORY, my first foray into young-teen-lit, is out today. Booklist says "Late middle grade and early high school readers will devour this quickly." #EduSky

Book birthday! HOW TO TELL A TRUE STORY, my first foray into young teen lit. Booklist says "Late middle school and early high school readers will devour this quickly." #EduSky

My young-teen novel, HOW TO TELL A TRUE STORY, publishes on April 1! BCCB's review quotes one of my favorite lines: "Truth is often as confusing as people, who could be good and bad, kind and selfish, brave and weak, familiar and changing, all rolled into one." Hope you'll give it a look! #EduSky

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Goodreads is having a giveaway for my young-teen novel, HOW TO TELL A TRUE STORY, coming on April 1. I know there are increasingly mixed feelings about the site, but I'd so love if someone here won a copy! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/ent...

Thanks, Amanda, for spreading the word on these books!

Violent Vacuuming i once had a neighbor who kept her house so tidy, so orderly, I felt nervous taking off my coat, for fear I'd set it in the wrong place (no worries--she'd whisk it straight away).

I'm not sure I'm doing this right--are you supposed to use Substack for quiet musing? Anyway--hope you'll read and enjoy this...
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OMG, your shirts are so great!!!

I love this illustrator's work! She also did the cover of my upcoming Young Teen Lit novel.

So much work but so interesting--thank you!

Coming April 1!

Thank you thank you thank you. My new novel, HOW TO TELL A TRUE STORY, coming April 1, has been called upper MG and younger YA and neither feels right. Now I know--it's Young Teen Lit. I'll be using that term from now on 😍

So excited to read this article! My new novel, HOW TO TELL A TRUE STORY, coming on April 1, has been called upper middle grade and younger YA and neither feels right. I Love Young Teen lit and will be using that term happily from now on. Thanks so much!

Wonderful, bright, shining, adorable, funny--for hours today I forgot everything awful.

Love the fierce eyes! We all need to practice that kind of vision!

So excited for my #BookMail today from @triciaspringstubb.bsky.social 💖🎉 I am already on page 30 and completely intrigued. #ctcaslreads @holidayhouse.bsky.social

Thank you, Melissa! So happy you are meeting Amber and Gage!

Some very kinds words from PW on my upper-MG coming April 1 "...a suspenseful exploration of morality; particularly compelling is perceptive Amber's questioning of truth and loyalty". Whoot! #EduSky

Homer Sleeps With Earrings No, it's not a Simpson episode that you somehow missed.

Homer Sleeps With Earrings
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When your agent mentions your new project in the same breath with Anne Ursu and Kate DiCamillo

An early gift for me: HOW TO TELL A TRUE STORY is a JLG Gold Standard selection! (coming April 1, 2025--no fooling).