Ellen Raskin’s The Tattooed Potato and The Westing Game are good fun; so are Peter Dickinson’s The Blue Hawk, Joan Aiken’s Midnight is a Place, Katherine Paterson’s The Master Puppeteer, Elizabeth George Speare’s The Sign of the Beaver, Robin McKinley’s The Blue Sword, and every...
Geelong, Eden; acting as Surveyor-in-Charge of the Port Phillip District; surveying coasts in Gippsland and the South Coast; ascertaining the source of the Murray River; and traversing the Main Range of the Snowy Mountains, making an ascent of the then-unnamed Mt Kosciuszko. Even...
One of the GCSE poems I teach, ‘My Father Would Not Show Us’ by Ingrid de Kok is a poem about an (adult) child processing the death of her father, processing her mixed feelings of frustration as to why he didn’t let her know he was dying and grief of what life could have been...
No, this title isn’t a description of the way William Faulkner created most of his stories. I’m referring to tight prose, not tight pro’s. Long ago I was browsing through YouTube videos and found a clip from an old Leave It to Beaver episode. (In fact I think I used it once,...
The sign says "As seen on The Simpsons". Show creator Mike Scully said that after the name was pitched, he started to feel that it was familiar. He then Googled it and found that it was used on The Simpsons, so they credited The Simpsons for the joke.[1] Edge of Heaven N/A 1...
Speare, Elizabeth G.Sign of the Beaver.New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, 1995. Spinelli, Jerry.Crash.New York: Random House Books for Young Readers, 1996. .Maniac Magee.New York: HarperTrophy, 1990. .There's a Girl in My Hammerlock.Old Tappan, NJ: Simon and Schu...
and podcasts (a couple episodes ofHandsomeand one each ofNormalGossipandWhere Should We Begin). Somewhere in Western Pennsylvania I fell asleep and when I opened my eyes the first thing that I saw was a sign that said, “Trump. Fuck Your Feelings,” so that was a rude awakening… ...
Then they got the ATF to sign off a decision that, as long as a firearm built to take the 12gaFH could still chamber a standard shotgun shell, it’s still legally a shotgun, not a “destructive device”, even if it has a rifled barrel and shoots .72 caliber metallic ammunition… ...
I spent over a year cobbling together my first draft of The Wild Robot. It was rough. Very rough. But Little, Brown & Company liked it enough to sign it up and in July of 2014 it became official: my robot nature story would be published! There was just one problem…I didn’t know...
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