Fiction Writer, Poet, Playwright, Educator, Memoir Writer and Literary Critic
A Review of Randall’s Wall by Carol Fenner, 1991; rpt. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, 1996, 85 pages This realistic novel for middle-grade children concerns an artistic boy from a poor family. Randall’s father has abused…
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Dear Friends, I will read part of my book and be interviewed about my new middle-grade fiction chapter book for children,The Passover Surprise (Fictive Press, 2015), by JD Holiday on Tuesday, July 21 at 1 p.m. EST on her show…
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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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