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Welcome to Superhero School
We love our ARCs – and this one is an exciting read from author Gracie Dix! If you’re looking for an exciting middle grade book, you’re in luck. This one won’t disappoint. The story: It’s not so easy being a … Continue reading →
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Tagged Adventure, book, Book Review, book series, books, bookworm, children's books, children's fiction story, dinosaurs, Family, Gracie Dix, Kids Lit, literature, mglit, middle grade lit, middle grade reads, reading, stories, superhero, supervillain, tween reads, Welcome to Superhero School
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Spooktacular Reads
Though I’m a huge Halloween fan, I know many people love the opportunity to dress up, munch on some sweet treats, and have ghoulish fun. In the spirit of October, I decided to pick three of my more spooktacular reads … Continue reading →
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Tagged book, Book Review, books, bookworm, Boyd Mills Press, Carl Reiner, children's books, children's fiction story, Eve Bunting, Family, family stuff, ghosts, Halloween, Harcourt Inc., Heebie Jeebie Jamboree, home school, home schooling, homeschool, Homeschooling, James Bennett, Kurt Cyrus, literature, Little Brown and Company, Mary Ann Fraser, October, read, reading, reads, scary, stories, Tell Me a Scary Story, Tell Me a Scary Story...But Not Too Scary, The Bones of Fred McFee
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Jar-Jar the Unlikeable Evil
If you’ve been reading my blog for quite a while, you may remember how I used to publish posts under the heading “The Writing Files”. While I did abandon these quite a while ago, I am now resuming them as … Continue reading →
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Tagged Star Wars, stories, writers, writing, writing process, writing tips
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Return of the Writing Files
If you’ve been reading my blog for quite a while, you may remember how I used to publish posts under the heading “The Writing Files”. While I did abandon these quite a while ago, I am now resuming them as … Continue reading →
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Tagged Family, home school, home schooling, homeschool, Homeschooling, literature, my stories, My Writing, stories, writers, writing, writing files, writing tips
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Question of the Week
For this week’s question, the answer is a bit complicated. I’m breaking it up into three different parts of the one answer. Q: How do I create a good leading hero? A: There are three general steps to creating any … Continue reading →
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Tagged home school, home schooling, homeschool, Homeschooling, my stories, My Writing, stories, writers, writing, writing methods, writing process, writing tips
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Question of the Week
This week’s question is pretty basic advice for writers who find their books being rather…skeletal: Q: I feel like I am bunching everything together in my book and it is moving along too quickly. What should I do? A: [This is another … Continue reading →
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Tagged home school, home schooling, homeschool, Homeschooling, questions, Scratch, stories, writers, writing, writing tips
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A Study in Writing: Jack and the Cuckoo Heart
This week I wanted to discuss storytelling. Though this is in relation to a specific movie, this blog post is not a movie review. I merely seek to point out what I think went wrong with the movie’s narrative, character … Continue reading →
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Tagged Family, home school, home schooling, homeschool, Homeschooling, Jack and the Cuckoo Heart, movie, movies, stories, writers, writing, writing process, writing tips
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The Writer’s Epidemic
There seems to be a common disease that is becoming more and more prevalent. It’s been floating around in the movie industry for years now, but it seems to be spreading rather rapidly to the authors of this world. Before … Continue reading →
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Tagged book, book series, books, bookworm, home school, home schooling, homeschool, Homeschooling, literature, my stories, My Writing, reading, stories, writers, writing, writing process, writing tips
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Just Being Audrey
This week is a simple post, what with having gotten my first job (yay!), my second college class ending, and the holidays coming up. I’ve got some pretty special ideas for my December posts, but that’ll have to wait until … Continue reading →
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Tagged acting, actress, Audrey, Audrey Hepburn, biography, book, Book Review, books, bookworm, children's books, educational books, Family, family stuff, girl, Girls, Hepburn, home school, home schooling, homeschool, Homeschooling, Julia Denos, literature, Margaret Cardillo, non-fiction, Nonfiction, reading, stories
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Say What?!
As a child, reading was a safe haven where every book was like traipsing through Beatrix Potter’s world. Innocent, carefree, it was a world of hope and freedom, where every danger was easily escapable. When reading classics, my parents chose … Continue reading →
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Tagged Ben White, book, books, bookworm, children, children's books, children's lit, children's literature, Family, family stuff, home school, home schooling, homeschool, Homeschooling, Kid's Lit, kid's literature, kids, literature, my stories, My Writing, reading, stories, writers, writing, writing process, writing tips
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