Byron Graves

Thanks Bob! 🙏🏼

Three book covers above and three below the YALSA logo (Young Adult Library Services Association) above "2026 Best Fiction for Young Adults" Highlighted covers: YALSA 2026 Best Fiction for Young Adults includes: ALL BETTER NOW by Neal Shusterman (Simon & Schuster) THE ART THIEVES by Andrea L. Rogers (Levine Querido) LEGENDARY FRYBREAD DRIVE-IN, edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Heartdrum). Additional contributors: Kate Hart, Eric Gansworth, Marcella Bell, Darcie Little Badger, Karina Iceberg, Kaua Mahoe Adams, Andrea L. Rogers, Cheryl Isaacs, Christine Hartman Derr, Brian Young, K. A. Cobell, Jen Ferguson, A. J. Eversole, Byron Graves, Angeline Boulley, David A. Robertson. PICK THE LOCK by A.S. King (Dutton) THE TROUBLE WITH HEROES by Kate Messner (Bloomsbury) THE UNFINISHED by Cheryl Isaacs (Heartdrum)

YALSA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults: www.yalsa.ala.org/thehub/2026/... @nealshusterman.bsky.social @katemessner.com @cherisaacs.bsky.social @yalsa.bsky.social #BookSky

I’ve been getting an influx of the same recently, out of nowhere. I keep ignoring them, but was worried about the same 🤣 (So much for my big budget movie adaptation)

“Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories” book review by Andrew Evans - This is Topeka All the feels! This book features the voices of both new and acclaimed Indigenous writers. It’s a collection of interconnected stories that serves up food,

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Wow! LEGENDARY FRYBREAD DRIVE-IN has debuted at #8 on the Indie Bestsellers List! Thanks so much for all of your enthusiasm and support. @epicreads.bsky.social @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social @kauawrites.bsky.social @ajeversole.bsky.social @byrongraves.bsky.social #BookSky

“Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories” book review by Andrew Evans - This is Topeka All the feels! This book features the voices of both new and acclaimed Indigenous writers. It’s a collection of interconnected stories that serves up food,

"This book is perfect for young adults, folks wanting to learn about Indigenous culture, fans of light-hearted romance, or short stories." thisistopeka.com/2026/01/lege... @kauawrites.bsky.social @byrongraves.bsky.social @epicreads.bsky.social @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social #YABooks

Miigwech Billie Eilish! No one is illegal on stolen land! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Love what you created! Literally got goosebumps when I saw it

BIG REVEAL!!
Here is the cover I illustrated for @byrongraves.bsky.social book, MEDICINE WHEELS! Look forward to it!! Thank you @harpercollins.bsky.social / Heartdrum for letting me illustrate this cover! And thank you Byron for this beautiful story!! 🖤❤️💛🤍 #books #illustration

Kameron created such a beautiful cover! Forever grateful to Kameron, and everyone at Heartdrum/Harper Collins who helped make this magic happen 🙏🏼

When you’re Indigenous, every single breath is an act of resistance

Headline: New Mexico Land of Enchantment 2026-2027 Nominees. Heartdrum logo. Cover art for YAADILA (family standing around a young boy and his messy project); WE STILL BELONG (girl with cat around her shoulders holding a music case at a powwow), REZ BALL (teenage boy holding a basketball outside). Decorations: graphics of prickly pear cactus, lizard and pretty suns in southwest color graphics.

Three Heartdrum books have been named 2026-2027 Land of Enchantment nominees: YÁADILÁ! (GOOD GRIEF!) by @laurelgoodluck.bsky.social & Jonathan Nelson; WE STILL BELONG Christine Day; REZ BALL by @byrongraves.bsky.social. #KidLit @harperstacks.bsky.social @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social

REZ BALL by @byrongraves.bsky.social (Heartdrum, 2023). Ages 13-up. This compelling debut novel by new talent Byron Graves (Ojibwe) tells the relatable, high-stakes story of a young athlete determined to play like the hero his Ojibwe community needs him to be.

Logos for SLJ (letters in blue) and Teen Librarian Toolbox (stacked words in white against red rectangle) above two book covers: AN EXPANSE OF BLUE (Hawaiian girl in profile with a flower in her upswept hair), MEDICINE WHEELS (Ojibwe teen boy holding a skateboard, Medicine Wheels on the board and behind him in the art. Medium blue background to overall image.

Teen Library Toolbox at SLJ highlights its Most Anticipated YA Reads of 2026, e.g. AN EXPANSE OF BLUE by @kauawrites.bsky.social & MEDICINE WHEELS by @byrongraves.bsky.social, both Heartdrum: teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2025/12/30/m... #BookSky @epicreads.bsky.social @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social

So excited to visit Tulsa! If you’re in the area, would love to meet ya!

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The Most Anticipated Children’s Books of 2026 Which books will the kids in your life fall in love with this year? We hope there will be lots, but to get your reading list started, we invited nine stellar children’s book creators—authors and il…

Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Children’s-YA Books of 2026 include Heartdrum's RAVEN, RISING and MEDICINE WHEELS: lithub.com/the-most-ant... #KidLit @byrongraves.bsky.social

Love this so much! Thank you for sharing! 🥺🥺🥺

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The Best Native Studies Books of 2025 Whether fiction, history, or memoir, great storytelling stands the test of time. Our annual list assembles some of the finest Native works published this past year.

Honored to find LEGENDARY FRYBREAD DRIVE-IN in amazing company: tribalcollegejournal.org/the-best-nat... #BookSky @epicreads.bsky.social @harperstacks.bsky.social @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social @kauawrites.bsky.social @ajeversole.bsky.social @byrongraves.bsky.social @davidarobertson.bsky.social

Happy New Year! 🥳

These documents represent real victims, real harm, & real trauma. Transparency matters because accountability matters

The files are real.
The crimes are real.
The delay is real.
The accountability is imaginary—like unicorns or ethical billionaires.

Today’s lesson:
If the truth threatens rich people, it gets put on airplane mode

So are the Patriot Games going to be rated PG-13 or are we going full blown Hunger Games director’s cut?

In The Hunger Games, the games were meant to remind people who had the power.
Funny how that detail survived the real life adaptation

A bookseller’s guide to good reads this holiday season Books are about the West or by authors with regional connections

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As #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth comes to a close, take some time to check out our new Heartdrum educator guides! These guides a great resource all year long for your readers of all ages 📚

Learn more here: bit.ly/3Xqf1hG

Denver/NCTE! I’ll be signing books and taking pics at the Harper Collins booth, 913, today from noon to one! Hope to see ya

See y’all at the Colorado Convention Center!

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