“THE WIZARD OF DARK STREET,” by Shawn Thomas Odyssey, Egmont, July 26, 2011, $16.99 (ages 9-12) If you ever have…
Browsing: Middle Grade
“SPELLBOUND: The Book of Elsewhere Vol. 2,” by Jacqueline West, Dial, July 12, 2011, $16.99 (ages 9-12) Imagination and creativity…
“QUEST FOR THE SCORPION’S JEWEL: Amerias Adventures Book One,” by Amy Green, Warner Press, July 2011, $7.99 (ages 9-12) Sometimes…
“THE LOVELY SHOES,” by Susan Shreve, Arthur A. Levine Books, June 1, 2011, $16.99 (ages 9-12) Every once in a…
“TIME FOR KIDS BIG BOOK OF HOW,” by Editors of Time for Kids Magazine, Time for Kids, June 7, 2011,…
“SCARY SCHOOL,” by Derek The Ghost (Derek Taylor Kent) and Scott M. Fischer, HarperCollins, June 21, 2011, $15.99 (ages 8-12)…
If anyone would have told Hal Malchow 10 years ago that he would become an author of a novel for…
“AMOS DARAGON #1: THE MASK WEARER,” by Bryan Perro, translated by Y. Maudet, Delacorte Books for Young Readers, Feb. 8,…
The most important year of author Derek Taylor Kent’s life was when he was 11 years old.
“I had an amazing teacher named Ms. Russell who was incredibly encouraging and gave us tons of freedom to work on our own projects outside of class for extra credit,” the “Scary School” author told me in an email interview. “My friends and I basically formed our own comedy troop and would write and perform skits just about every single day (we got a lot of extra credit).”
Helen Stringer has always wanted to tell stories but not necessarily write. As a child growing up in Liverpool, England,…