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Book Lists and Recommendation Policy
When making book recommendations and lists on Nerdy Book Club, we consider diversity in all the ways young readers need it. Children become stronger readers when they read books from a variety of levels and genres. Picture books and graphic novels don’t define a reader’s age or ability—these formats provide rich storytelling opportunities for all readers. Offering books from a range of topics and themes increases opportunities to connect more children with books that match their interests.
The Nerdy Book Club proudly supports the We Need Diverse Books movement and its mission to increase the diversity of books published for and shared with children. We live in a wide world made of many different people and the books we promote and share with children must reflect this truth. Through reading, our children can travel beyond their own lives. Celebrating books that feature people from our world’s ethnicities, cultures, races, genders, and sexual identities fosters empathy and affirms the history and experiences of every child.
All children deserve books they can read. All children deserve books they are interested in reading. All children deserve books reflecting their lives. All children deserve books illuminating lives different from their own.
Because we believe in the power of books, we encourage all Nerdy Book Club contributors to consider our stance on diversity when recommending books in your posts. We appreciate lists and recommendations that express your unique point of view, however, our audience expects inclusiveness. Please consider the needs of our audience and the children we serve when creating lists and recommending books. If your post does not appear balanced, we may ask you to revise it.
When we celebrate a wider range of books, we invite more people into our reading community.
Thank you for reading Nerdy Book Club and sharing your passion and ideas with our readers through your posts.
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Nerdy Book Club friends,
We have two separate forms here now – one for people interested in writing guest posts for Reading Lives, Book Reviews, Pay It Forward, and Top Ten Lists; the other is for authors interested in posting.* Please fill out the appropriate form and submit it.
Thank you for your interest!
*The author database seems to be overflowing so we are taking it down for a while. Thank you for your cooperation and patience.
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Thank you for the information. I’ll make some adjustments to that this afternoon.
I’m excited to be apart of the Nerdy Book Club.
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Hello. I am a new author of a book called Class Clown the Memoirs. It is doing pretty good, but recently I was given advice to try to get bloggers to talk about it. I dont know how to do that but ask. I am an educator and parent. My book is for the reader who does not like to read in grades 4-7 grades. It is inspired by son who was a class clown. It is a fun book that shows how you do not have to be like everyone else, but have confidence, smarts and have a good time. Let me know if you have any advice. Thanks.
You can sign up for a post!
I’m a huge fan of your blog! I follow it and share it with many other teachers probably more than they like. I write my own reading reviews or about my reading life every Monday on my blog. I wonder how I might sign up to write a Nerdy guest blogger. I just finished a shortened Retro Review on Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher on my own blog. I’d love to do anything to contribute! Such a great site you have here!
Thank you! If you’re interested in being a guest blogger, sign up in the Google form above.
Do guest blogger submissions need to be exclusive to Nerdy Book Club or can they be posts originally from or also posted on one’s own blog?
Posts must be originally published on Nerdy Book Club. You may cross post to other blogs after the initial Nerdy post.
Thanks for clarifying.
Having high expectations has been a theme of many discussions I’ve had lately. After reading Book Whisperer and hearing you speak at the Literacy Retreat I can see how you get your students to achieve. It’s simply non-negotiable. You are an inspiration to us all.
New kid on the block! I have been mesmerized into hours of blog-hopping thanks to NerdyBookClub. I recently joined wordpress and seem to be channeling Dora the Explorer. A whole new world of like-minded, extremely talented, and helpful people has been opened up to me, and I can’t get enough. I look forward to the day, when I am ready to answer Nerdy’s call (I picture an uber-stylish librarian, wearing stars and strips, staring over her cat-eye glasses, while pointing a determinate finger directly at me, in a most Uncle Sam-like manner: Nerdy Needs YOU!). Until then, I will happily stalk these pages and do what I love so much: READ!
I love to read and write and promote reading / writing with my students. I’d be happy to create a post in the future, or submit some ideas to you for your approval.
I’m interested in guest blogging! I’m always looking to network with readers, writers, and teachers.
Please sign up in one of the forms above then, Ryan! Thank you for your interest!
found your site through the newest SCBWI Bulletin!
This sounds great!! Excited to be apart of the nerdy book club!
Hi! I’m having a little trouble with the form. I clicked on Top Ten but was sent to Retro Review instead. I typed my Top Ten idea there anyway (with a note about the mix-up) but when I hit Continue, I was back suddenly back at a blank Retro Review page again. So, I’m not sure if you received my proposal or not.
HI! I got an email form nerdy book club saying to write a retro review. In the email from nerdy book club it said that my post would be on the website on 15th July. It is already the 17th and it still not on the website. Do you know why?
Thank you so much. 🙂
Heard about the Nerdy Book Club at the Scholastic Readjng Summit in Charlotte. I am a teacher-librarian in a k-5 school in SC. I am excited about being part of the Nerdy Book Club
Thanks for doing this! I will be filling out the request for someone to review my work as soon as my book becomes officially published! God bless! ❤
I am a middle school ELA teacher and a voracious YA book reader. I love the information that I have found on this blog in the past and would love the opportunity to start sharing some ideas.
Hi I Have Answered The Forms
I love the idea of this!!