by Deb Aronson | Sep 5, 2018 | Features
Imagine you were going to the beach. You’d put your swimsuit on under your clothes, drive or walk to the beach, and then what? For Claire Williams, she spreads out her towel. Takes off her shoes, then she takes off her clothes, takes off her watch, puts on her swim...
by Deb Aronson | Sep 3, 2018 | Blog
Breakout (Hint: It’s not a story about pimples!) One of the most unusual parts about Kate Messner’s Breakout, (Bloomsbury) is its format. The story is an epistolary novel — a story told in personal letters that characters exchange. In this case “letters” include...
by Deb Aronson | Aug 30, 2018 | Blog
Great Metaphor for Tuning Out Haters This article by James Clear resonated with me. In part it is because it deals with how to handle one’s inner critic. That’s always a good topic to re-visit since one’s inner critic never rests. But I particularly appreciated his...
by Deb Aronson | Aug 11, 2018 | Blog
A Story About Friendship And Family Aven Green, the main character in Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus, (by Dusti Bowling, published by Sterling), happens to have been born without arms. But this story is not about Aven’s armlessness per se. It is, at its...
by Deb Aronson | Jul 30, 2018 | Blog
The Wish List: A lighthearted middle-grade series about Sparkles and so much more In any classic fairy tale the fairy godmother shows up, wand in hand, grants the main character’s wish and then — her job done — POOF! she disappears in a shower of sparkles. In her...
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