aIF you read Harry Potter, you know about prefects.In UK schools, prefects are older students. They take charge of younger students outside of the classroom At Hogwarts magic school, prefects can take points away at Quidditch games. And they always walk through the dorms to see that no ...
drumsticks, some dog-eared Harry Potter paperbacks (pages dropping out by the day), and the device he uses for IXL, our on-going academic supplement. (Check it out, it might work for you. You choose the grade, the subject to study, you get analytics...
Lev Grossman’s novelThe Magiciansmade quite a stir back in 2009 when it was first published with its mix of Harry Potter andNarniaand the way it turned these YA stories into some serious adult fiction. I read it in 2009 and liked it a lot. I’ve had the second book in the series ...
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Who or what inspired you to start your writing career? I believe it’s important to get children back into reading. Children are reading less than any previous generation; a third of children surveyed said they couldn’t find things to read that interested them. Yet research shows that stro...
I read your book, Blow Out The Moon, and I really liked it. Some parts of it were really funny. You never mentioned any thing about blowing out the moon in your story. Where did the title come from? You said that you never saw any of your friends from the boarding school, but if...
And Louis explained the picture to anyone who didn’t immediately get it: This was (of course) St. Patrick driving the snakes out of Ireland!Though it was long before St. Patrick came along, I think the people of Israel in our first reading would have really liked Patrick and Patrick’...
I particularly liked the chapters written by Jess’s siblings about their feelings growing up – it’s so important for them to have their viewpoints heard, too. Did you find writing your story about raising Jess therapeutic? Thank you! And yes, writing was therapeutic for me. Writing each...
Put another way, this is either a totally mediocre ‘good book’, or a fantastic ‘bad book’. Why might this distinction matter, you might rightly ask? Because, I would answer, the success or failure of a book, like any other endeavor, ought to be measured in part against its goal....
If you look for a book as a present for a child, you will be spoiled for choice even in a year when there is no new Harry Potter.J.K.Rowling’s wizard is not alone:the past decade has been a harvest for good children’s books, which has set off a large quantity of films and ...