Brooks Benjamin

Brooks Benjamin

@brooksbenjamin.bsky.social

Writer, reader, pizza eater Librarian the rest of the time Writes books like MY SEVENTH-GRADE LIFE IN TIGHTS. 🇵🇸✊🏾🏳️‍🌈

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Brooks Benjamin
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All 16yo Audrey knows about her mom is that she was an aspiring scream queen who worked with legendary horror director Warren Rothstein. So when the Wagner Student Film Festival announces Rothstein is this year’s guest judge? She decides it’s time to flex her director muscles and win. #DVPit #YA

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THE FOREVER WONDER CLUB 53k #MG When the city council shuts down her grandma’s psychic shop, 12yo Dolly Moon decides to open her own underground tarot business to earn money for her family while she figures out how to fight back against the city’s unfair ruling. #DVPit

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12yo Asher just found out his late father's mysterious keepsake is the key to a magical world. And when he and 2 friends get pulled into it, he discovers something else: His dad’s alive and well. And by well, he means imprisoned for treason. Welsh folklore inspired! #DVPit #MG 58k

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12yo Oscar and his D&D friends are going to save his uncle’s store. How? Hosting a gaming tournament, of course. But when they preview a game called Nightmares, they accidentally unleash the board’s monsters on the town. Ghouls?✅ Werewolves?✅ Giant dolls?✅ Evil scarecrows?✅ And more!😱 #DVpit #MG 🏳️‍🌈

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12yo Cody starts a dog-walking business to fund his family’s trip back home to Nashville. But when he falls for a boy & a girl at his new school AND gets blackmailed by the 8th grade Queen B, he worries he’ll be stuck (& crushed) in Sweetbrier forever. SIMON VS. + LIFE OF A CACTUS #MG 42k #DVpit 🏳️‍🌈

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THE HAIRY TRUTH ABOUT GROWING UP 45K humorous #MG 11yo Shannendoa has until the end of summer break to find a way to jumpstart his puberty and outgrow his humiliating nickname, Shannon Doughy, before middle school begins. WIMPY KID + STARFISH = body positivity and hilariously mad science! #DVpit

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ED WOOD X A DISASTER IN 3 ACTS 16yo Audrey never knew her mom. But legendary horror movie director Warren Rothstein did. So when the Student Film Fest announces he’s this year’s judge, Audrey forms a team to make a chaotic horror short sure to get Rothstein’s attention. And her answers. #DVpit #YA

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JUMANJI X STRANGER THINGS When 12yo Oscar and his D&D group play a vintage board game, they unknowingly unleash a horde of monsters and are forced to battle each of the game’s bosses before their town is destroyed. THE GAME OF NIGHTMARES 58k MG horror #DVpit 🏳️‍🌈 #OWN

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CRUSHED 42k MG 🏳️‍🌈 12yo Cody’s mission? Save his family from small-town exile. His plan? Start a dog-walking empire to fund the trip home. Not in his plan? Falling for a boy & a girl, getting blackmailed by the Queen B, and being forced to compete in the annual Halloween costume contest. #DVpit #own

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TALES OF A TEENAGE SCREAM QUEEN | 56k 16yo Audrey has ?s about her late B-movie scream-queen mom. Too bad the guy who knew her best is elusive director William Rothstein. When the Student Film Fest announces him as this year’s judge? She makes a plan: Make a movie. Win. Get her answers. #DVpit #YA

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#PreDV TALES OF A TEENAGE SCREAM QUEEN 16yo Audrey is done being ghosted by William Rothstein, the horror director who knew her late scream-queen mom so she rallies a ragtag crew of misfits to create a horror short and earn the Wagner Student Film Fest’s grand prize: a convo with Rothstein. YA 56k

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#PreDV When 11yo Shenandoah wakes up with a real chest hair he decides to turn his bedroom into a makeshift mad scientist’s lab to complete his puberty transformation before sixth grade starts so he can outgrow his humiliating nickname Shannon Doughy. THE HAIRY TRUTH ABOUT GROWING UP 45k humorous MG

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What if the phenomenon of days being shorter as we age is actually because we move through space faster, picking up speed as we get older. Maybe we forget things more because we have less time to remember them! Maybe we stumble because we’re being thrown off balance as we rocket through the cosmos!!

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I’m teaching a banned books lesson next week for the first time since I became a librarian because 1) I’m at that point in my career where I’m finding which hills I’m ready to die on and 2) we have way too many amazing books that I want to show off for it!

Brooks Benjamin
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Every summer around this time I have a nightmare where the school has moved the library to some room I’ve never seen and I have to quickly reorganize EVERYTHING but the kids show up and they’re all loud and mean and no matter what I do nothing helps so I wind up questioning my career choices.

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I’m attempting to turn this into a cat-friendly sanctuary for our ferals. This is the before and after (so far). When I say I had a brush with death trying to get rid of all that poison ivy, I mean it. It’s trying to kill me y’all.