by Mary Quattlebaum Starting March 1 st , we’re celebrating Women’s History Month with 31 days of posts focused on improving the cli...

by Mary Quattlebaum Amy Sarig King is the author of many acclaimed YA novels, but Me and Marvin Gardens (Scholastic, 2017) is her fir...

by Mary Quattlebaum Rachel Vail is the author of many popular novels for young people, including the Justin Case series, the Friend...

by Mary Quattlebaum Nick Bruel is the creator of highly popular chapter books, picture books and early readers, all of which feature hi...

by Mary Quattlebaum Adam Gidwitz’s new novel The Inquisitor’s Tale is proving as popular as his well-known “Grimm” novels, including A...

by Mary Quattlebaum Is the classroom or your personal journaling experience starting to pall? One way to spice up the journal-keeping...

by Mary Quattlebaum Many kids think that scientists work with beakers and microscopes, but Dr. Alexandra Horowitz is a scientist who ...

by Mary Quattlebaum Family can be inspiring, as Shawn Stout discovered when writing her eighth novel A Tiny Piece of Sky .  In an int...

by Mary Quattlebaum Like a master alchemist, Dan Gutman can take ordinary stuff and turn it into comic gold.  As the best-selling autho...

by Mary Quattlebaum Gene Luen Yang recently became the fifth National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, succeeding Kate DiCamil...

by Mary Quattlebaum The Power of Words.   Students have heard that phrase so often that it sounds like a cliché.  Marc Tyler Nobleman ...

by Mary Quattlebaum Wars rage across the world, but rarely is there talk of the efforts undertaken by ordinary people to promot...

by Mary Quattlebaum Make writing and science fun with Jon Scieszka!  His latest book is the third in his zany Frank Einstein series. ...

by Mary Quattlebaum How to connect writing and science?  Both are important areas for learning for students of all ages.  At the same t...