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A teacher since 1973, Atwell started her career in western New York, but found traditional teaching methods constraining. [7]In 1990 Atwell founded the nonprofit Center for Teaching and Learning, a school at Edgecomb in rural Maine where students read an average of 40 books a year, choose which books they read, and write prolifically.
Ellie Crowe is a South African-born author of more than sixteen books. She now lives in the United States, in Honolulu, Hawaii and Santa Barbara, California.Her books on the culture and history of Hawaii include Exploring Lost Hawaii, Places of Power, History, Mystery and Magic, Kamehameha: the Boy who became a Warrior King, recipient of the HVCB Kahili Award for Literary Arts in 2004, and ...
In 2013, Bank Street College of Education included The Amazing Harry Kellar on their list of the year's best biographies for children ages 9–12. [ 10 ] In 2014, School Library Journal included Red Madness on their list of the year's best children's books. [ 11 ]
This 12-book series kicks off with how the CIA recruits a middle school science whiz for its undercover school. Packed with twists, suspense, adventure and friendship, this series supplies ...
THE LIST: Catch up on 2024’s most illuminating life stories, encompassing tales of recovery, literary feuds and devastating betrayal, with Katie Rosseinsky’s edit of the best memoirs and ...
Sharon Creech (born July 29, 1945) is an American writer of children's novels.She was the first American winner of the Carnegie Medal for British children's books and the first person to win both the American Newbery Medal and the British Carnegie.
Here, an animated show based on Max Brallier’s best selling book series about a scrappy gaggle of middle schoolers battling monsters in a post apocalyptic world. There’s tons of peril and the ...
Likewise, Barnhill learned about a powerful form of activism at her new school where the principal had walked hand-in-hand with Martin Luther King Jr., saying that ‘It was the first time I had seen that kind of activism that was part of everybody's story.’ [6] Witnessing such a moment is also seen in When Women Were Dragons when women are ...