Books for Boys
Maureen Johnson had the blogosphere and twitterverse on fire recently with her excellent blog post “Sell the Girls“, which brought up the issue, among many issues, of male authors being considered...
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New Voices: Crystal Allen
In HOW LAMAR’S BAD PRANK WON A BUBBA-SIZED TROPHY, 13-year-old Lamar is the maddest, baddest, most spectacular bowler at Striker’s Bowling Paradise but he seems to keep striking out with the ladies....
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Dan Gutman’s My Weird Classroom Club
My name is Dan Gutman, and I love teachers and librarians! Hey, the most amazing thing in the history of the world just happened. But I’m not going to tell you what it is. So nah nah nah boo boo on...
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Tim Green…
…is on Facebook! Go over there and “like” him! Interested in having Tim visit your school or library? You can also stop by Tim’s website for information about Skype visits and in-person visits. And...
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Teaching Writing Through Music with author Ben Winters
Doing classroom visits with young writers is probably my favorite part of being a writer, narrowly edging out the actual writing. Kids inspire me; they give me new ideas for characters and stories;...
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BBW Booktalk: BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA
In addition to appearing on the list regularly, Katherine Paterson’s BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA was a Top 10 Banned Book in 2003. It is also ranked in the Top 10 Banned Books of the decade, 1990-2010. It...
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