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Happy release day of Ed Lin's "David Tung Can't Have a Girlfriend Until He Gets Into an Ivy League College"! Don't miss our online event this Friday at 6pm for a talk with Ed Lin and fellow YA author Lilliam Rivera. Both will be reading from their new releases and chatting about growing up in the NYC area. David Tung is a Chinese American high-school student who works in his family’s restaurant, competes for top rank at his upscale, Asian-majority, suburban New Jersey h...igh school, and hangs with his real friends at weekend Chinese school in NYC’s working-class Chinatown. When popular girl Christina Tau asks David to the high school Dame’s Dance, David’s tightly regimented life gets thrown into a tailspin. He soon realizes that he actually has feelings for Betty, the smartest girl at Chinese school. Ed Lin’s YA-debut explores coming-of-age in the Asian diaspora while navigating relationships through race, class, young love, and the confusing expectations of immigrant parental pressure. #WordUp #NewReleases #BookLaunch #BookReading #Reading #OnlineEvent #WithFriends #YAbook #YA #books #bookevent #nyc See more

Thank you so much, Natalie! We love seeing our neighbors again, albeit behind masks and from safe distances. Keep ordering your books online (wordupbooks.com) and swing by to pick them up from our store front! We'd love to see you.

El taller de Inquietud/Disquiet continúa: Nuestra segunda propuesta es escribir un texto acerca del fuego: un fuego que es de otra época, pero que todavía hoy arde, quema. Un poema de Diana Bellessi: Algo de aquel fuego quema todavía.... La luz del sol móvil sobre la copa de los árboles, y mi corazón desbocado, de deseo. Afuera, al alcance de mi mano la fiesta. Los tiempos verbales amarrados, como helechos a una misma piedra. Formas de compartir tus escritos (en español o inglés): - Compartir una foto del papel en el que escribiste. - Compartir lo que escribiste en tu teléfono o en una computadora. Por correo electrónico: [email protected] En Instagram y Facebook con los hashtags: #escrituraentransitony #inquietuddisquiet #WritingInTransitNY See more

Join us and the Uptown fridges on November 1st for a day of community, remember since, honoring of loved ones, and support of community fridges! Being some canned goods/non-perishables or donate to the event via Venmo @UptownCommunityAltar For those who do not have printed photos or cannot make it to the event in-person, feel free to email the name and/or photo of your loved one(s) at [email protected] and we will take care of including them in the alter! #community #communityfridge Word Up will be handing out free books :)

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, a National Book Award finalist for The Undocumented Americans, talks immigration, her unconventional approach to nonfiction and why impostor syndrome doesn’t faze her.

Calling BIPOC creatives! Scholastic wants to hear from you

Join us for a book reading and discussion of Ed Lin's debut YA novel "David Tung Can't Have A Girlfriend Until He Gets Into An Ivy League College" and Lilliam Rivera's new YA novel: "Never Look Back." Both books are set in New York City and New Jersey -- specifically focused on Chinatown and The Bronx. Don't miss out on Lo'Mas Lit's NOVEMBER pick (learn more on the last slide)! The event is free and open to the public :) RSVP at WithFriends.co/Word Up (LINK IN BIO) for t...he Zoom link and 15% off both books on our website. Both available at WordUpBooks.com. "David Tung Can't Have A Girlfriend Until He Gets Into An Ivy League College" centers on David, an over-achieving New Jersey high school student who finds himself in a love triangle of sorts event though he isn't allowed to date. "Never Look Back" retells the myth of Eurydice and Orpheus, but set in the Bronx. These two authors will read from their books and talk about why they want to tell stories about growing up in New York and New Jersey. See more

Now more than ever, we need to ensure our families are counted. 1 million children were missed in the last census. We can’t let that happen again. The recent SCOTUS ruling means that the census ends FRIDAY AT 6AM EST! Fill it out before the deadline and make sure everyone you know had taken it: My2020census.gov #GetCountedNYC

A lot of love goes into Word Up every single day, even when we're not open. When you make a purchase through us or donate, your money goes to so many other things that you may not see every day, including free books for kids, paying artists and authors for their time, and giving back as much as we can to our community. This Prime Day and holiday season, support #IndieBookstores and #shoplocal with businesses that care about you, put effort into their products, and care about their staff. Amazon doubled its profits this year and still doesn't treat their employees, the environment, and your privacy with decency. #BoxedOut #ShopIndie #PrimeDay

Nuestra compatriota Claudia Prado sigue coordinando talleres. Escriban sobre el tema de inquietud, en español o inglés, usando consignas semanales, y se publicarán sus palabras. Miren la primera consigna abajo. / Our friend Claudia Prado is running a workshop on the topic of disquiet: answer the weekly prompts through writing in English or in Spanish, and your words will be published. Prompt for week 1 below. #escrituraentransitony #inquietuddisquiet