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A School Canceled My Virtual Author Visit Because of A HIGH FIVE FOR GLENN BURKE
A school canceled my virtual author visit because they didn’t want their fourth graders to know about my middle grade novel A High Five for Glenn Burke. They didn’t want their fourth graders to know about it because they feared a few loud parents in their community....
When Bully Parents Cancel An Author Visit
I had a school visit cancelled this week. No, not because of the novel coronavirus. The school would not allow me to speak to its middle school students -- middle school students -- about A High Five for Glenn Burke, my new middle grade novel. The school would not...
A High Five For Dad, A High Five For Glenn Burke
My dad will never read my new middle grade novel, A High Five for Glenn Burke. Even if he does, he won’t remember it. He has dementia. I said goodbye to my dad last summer on July 16. Well, I said goodbye to a version of Dad because I knew the next time I saw...
A High Five For Andrew Clements
hank you, Andrew Clements. Like thousands of other classroom teachers over the past twenty plus years, I shared the novel Frindle by Andrew Clements with my students. In class 6-413 at the West Farms School in the Bronx in the fall of 1997,...
Make This Year the Year of the Author Visit
Every student deserves to experience an author visit. It doesn’t matter if they attend a rural Title I school in York County, Nebraska or an elite prep school on the Upper West Side of New York City, every student should have the opportunity to experience an author...