Do you follow Sourcebooks Kids on Instagram? Here is a quote from a recent post:

📣Calling all children’s authors!

📖For the month of October, our editor Melissa Manlove is accepting UNAGENTED submissions!

🌟Melissa will choose ONE manuscript at random to read if you send multiple.
🌟We’re expecting a high number of submissions. If you do not hear back by the end of December, we have passed at this time.
🌟Email your submission to OpenOctober@sourcebooks.com.
🌟Check out Melissa’s manuscript wishlist at the link in our bio.

We can’t wait to read your stories📚💛

FYI: The Josephine book (with the award stickers) at the bottom of Melissa’s manuscript wishlist was written by Patricia Hruby Powell, one of my former students.

12 Things to Know about Global Immigration
by Precious McKenzie (Author)
@ Amazon | Bookshop

Booktalk: Immigration is one of today’s biggest headlines. From war and persecution to natural disasters and better opportunities, there are a lot of reasons people move to a new country. Help middle-grade students get the essential facts about this broad current events issue with 12 short chapters that offer insights into the push and pull factors that drive immigration and the hardships that immigrants face on their journey to citizenship.

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The author, Precious McKenzie, is one of my former students.
(Although the bookstore metadata says Luana Mitten wrote this book,
Precious McKenzie is listed as the author in the book itself.)
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Category: middle grade

Open October call for manuscripts

12 Things to Know about Global Immigration