Fiction Writer, Poet, Playwright, Educator, Memoir Writer and Literary Critic
Motivated by her concern after the Virginia Tech shootings in 2007, Kathryn Erskine wrote mockingbird (mok′ ing-bûrd) to examine how families cope after a sudden tragedy. Erksine’s first-person narrator is a ten-year-old girl with Asperger’s syndrome named Caitlin Ann Smith. …
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THE PASSOVER SURPRISE, A Middle-Grade Chapter Book by Janet Ruth Heller, illustrated by Ronald Kauffman Lisa and her little brother Jon enjoy collecting stamps. But when their father holds a contest to decide which child will get a new large…
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On April 5, 2012, the new documentary movie Bully, which had originally been rated “R,” received a revised rating of “PG-13” after an extensive petition drive. The Motion Picture Association of America had designated Bully an “R-rated” film because one…
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