Too Bright to See, by Kyle Lukoff

Each Friday that school is in session, I share the link to a read-aloud preview of a book from SRCSA library. The “First-chapter Friday” selection for March 15, 2024 is Too Bright to See, by Kyle Lukoff.

It’s the summer before middle school and 11-year-old Bug’s best friend Moira has decided the two of them need to use the next few months to prepare. For Moira, this means figuring out the right clothes to wear, learning how to put on makeup, and deciding which boys are cuter in their yearbook photos than in real life. But none of this is all that appealing to Bug, who doesn’t particularly want to spend more time trying to understand how to be a girl. Besides, there’s something more important to worry about: A ghost is haunting Bug’s eerie old house in rural Vermont … and maybe haunting Bug in particular. Too Bright to See was a winner, in 2022, of the Stonewall Book Award, as well as an Honor Book for the Newbery Medal.

Among the 2024 Youth Media Awards, presented on Jan. 22 by the American Library Association, author Kyle Lukoff was selected for the Children's Literature Lecture Award.

The winner of this award “shall prepare a paper considered to be a significant contribution to the field of children’s literature.” Lukoff’s address will take place in Spring 2025 and will afterward be published in “Children and Libraries,” which is the official journal of the Association for Library Service to Children.
https://youtu.be/du2dMiEZPS0