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A Biography of David Levithan
By Shelby Athey, Christina Goettsch, Rheanna Lipari, Artie Loredo, Taylor Thorne, and Danny Zamarripa BORN: September 7, 1972 in Short Hills, NJ. EDUCATION: Graduated from Brown University in 1994...
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A Biography of Saci Lloyd
By Andrea Cerna, Stephanie Loder, Isamar Meza-Rendon, Brianna Naughton, and Mirna Ruiz Saci Lloyd was born on December 18th, 1967 in Manchester, Lancashire, England (Saci Lloyd). She was “raised in...
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Teaching Resources for Saci Lloyd’s Carbon Diaries: 2015
By Andrea Cerna, Stephanie Loder, Isamar Meza-Rendon, Brianna Naughton, and Mirna Ruiz “An Interview with Saci Lloyd, the Author of the Carbon Diary Books” Through the Looking Glass Children’s Book...
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A Review of Terry Pratchett’s Nation
By Shauna Chaffin, Danelle Huggett, Min Joo Lee, Elizabeth Loiler, and Amelia Lowry “When much is taken, something is returned.” Terry Pratchett breathes new life into this platitude in...
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Biography of Terry Pratchett
By Shauna Chaffin, Danelle Huggett, Min Joo Lee, Elizabeth Loiler, and Amelia Lowry According to Colin Smythe, Sir Terrance David John “Terry” Pratchett was born on April 18th, 1948 in Beaconsfield,...
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Teaching Resources for Terry Pratchett’s Nation
By Shauna Chaffin, Danelle Huggett, Min Joo Lee, Elizabeth Loiler, and Amelia Lowry Barack, Lauren. “Terry Pratchett: State of the Nation.” School Library Journal. Media Source, Inc., n.d. Web. 29...
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A Biography of Thanhha Lai
By Jocelyn Frierson, Devon Garcia, Jennifer Lopez, and Victoria Miller Thanhha Lai was born in Vietnam in 1965. She was the youngest of nine children, she and states that life in Saigon, South Vietnam...
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A Biography of Rita Williams-Garcia
By Lauren Gamache, Amy Gross, Erica Harrison, Paige Ozenbaugh, and Amanda Truong I was born to write stories. When I’m not working, I’m daydreaming. Plotting out the next story. Listening to...
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Suggested Teaching Resources for Rita Williams-Garcia’s One Crazy Summer
By Lauren Gamache, Amy Gross, Erica Harrison, Paige Ozenbaugh, and Amanda Truong Appelt, Kathi. “Rita Williams Garcia Talks about One Crazy Summer.” July 6, 2010. YouTube. April 8, 2013....
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A Biography of Neil Gaiman
By: Kris Choe and Luis Alvarez This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it’s done. It’s that easy, and that hard. –Neil Gaiman Neil Gaiman was born...
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Teaching Resources for Sophie Webb’s Far from Shore
By Corey Woznichak and Brittany Corrothers Johnson, Denise. “The Joy of Children’s Literature.” “New Book from Sophie Webb.” JCL, 19 May 2011. Web. 15 Mar. 2013. Sophie Webb’s Far From Shore is an...
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Suggested Teaching Resources for Doug TenNapel’s Ghostopolis
By Alexis Moffett Deuben, Alex. “Exploring the Afterlife in TenNapel’sGhostopolis.”Comic Book Resources, 20 July 2010. Web.14 March 2013. In this interview, Doug TenNapel opens up about his inspiration...
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A Biography of Sir Terry Pratchett
By Maritza Arteaga, Wendy Hernandez, Brittany Markham, Krista Pohl, Iolani Sciacca, and Gabby Wilson Sir Terry Pratchett was born on April 28th, 1948 in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire (FamousAuthors)....
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Suggested Teaching Resources for Stefan Bachmann’s The Peculiar
Teaching Resources for The Peculiar By Fionna Kuhn Barrow, Mandy. “Project Britain: The Victorians.” Woodlands Junior School, 26 Feb. 2011. Web. 1 May 2013. “Project Britain: The Victorians” is an...
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2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 17,000...
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A Biography of Malinda Lo
by A. Seltzer, D. Rosenau, M. Atwood, R. Kalicki, T. Gilstrap Biography of Malinda Lo According to her website, Malinda Lo was born in China and moved to the United States when she was three years old....
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A Review of Malinda Lo’s Huntress
A Review of Malinda Lo’s Huntress by A. Seltzer, D. Rosenau, M. Atwood, R. Kalicki, T. Gilstrap Making a decision isn’t about knowing every potential consequence. It’s about knowing what you want and...
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A Review of Jack Gantos’s Dead End in Norvelt
By Amber Hancock “Then she reached toward me with her deformed stumps and touched my face and at that moment I yelped out loud and dropped over dead…” (Gantos 26) The unexpected is Jack Gantos’s...
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