Guest Post for Friend Friday
In anticipation of today’s launch of Fast Backward, I wrote a guest post for Kirby Larson’s Friend Friday blog, and...
Fast Backward Trailer
Thank you to students Rosie and Prisha for creating this amazing book trailer!
Alexander Hamilton, Revolutionary by Martha Brockenbrough
Alexander Hamilton…My name is Alexander Hamilton…There’s a million things I haven’t done…Just you wait, just you wait… So you’ve seen...
Leaving Our Island Day
On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. Only two-and-a-half months had passed since the bombing of...
Slaughterhouse Five
The Book and Kurt Slaughterhouse-Five captured my imagination (the book) and admiration (the author) on my initial read (way back...
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
Can a Knife Be a Page-Turner? I’m late to the book, but I just finished The Knife of Never Letting...
A Step Forward with Fast Backward
Fast Backward Didn’t Happen Fast. Fast isn’t my middle name. If I were a Great Plains farmer who’d endured a...
The Alex Crow by Andrew Smith
What the Hell’s an Alex Crow? The Alex Crow: unbridled imagination, inspired (and inspiring) storytelling. Andrew Smith’s tale isn’t for...
NaNoWriMo
NaNoWriMo is on the Horizon. But last week I was only thinking about NaNoWriMo. I was busy, on the road,...
Serendipity
On December 20, 1991, I was unemployed. Not destitute, mind you (this isn’t a story about facing Christmas with a...
