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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....
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...