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Peril and Perseverance review from Books and Bassets

7/22/2015

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Review from
Books and Bassets
July 22, 2015

As most of you know, I will be moving to a new school in the Fall, teaching 6th grade in a program for the highly gifted. This is quite a shift from teaching 4th grade at a Title I school, but I am excited about the challenge and adventure this new job presents.

In two weeks, I will go to the first of 3 workshops I need to attend before school begins. Although this will be my first official foray back into middle school I have been thinking about it. As with any grade change, it is important to know what to expect in terms of curriculum, but also in terms of what kids should be able to do.

A friend of mine has a daughter who was in 6th grade last year at Jackson Middle School. She told me throughout the year about the longterm Biomes project her daughter was doing in class. It was complex and multifaceted, culminating in fiction and non-fiction writing. ​
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Her teacher was so impressed with the student’s results, he got in touch with a local publisher and had his students’ work published. Alive and Well. Mostly.  is a collection of the fiction that these 6th graders wrote.

As I read the first story, I laughed, because I could picture the writer. And this feeling continued throughout the book. These are excellent stories, written by 11 and 12 year olds. Their stories reflect their age, but they also reflect a lot of research and editing. The result is an excellent volume that I will add to my classroom library once I get around to setting it up.​

You can find out a little more about it on the publisher’s website. If you have a young person who loves to write, they might enjoy reading this delightful collection, and it might inspire them to write their own stories.
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Alive and Well. Mostly. Giveaway

6/27/2015

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GoodReads is hosting a giveaway for Colin Adams's and David A. Wierth's
Alive and Well. Mostly. Enter to win a copy. Giveaway ends June 27th, 2015.

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Book Signing Event for Alive and Well. Mostly.

6/5/2015

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Today marked the release party and book signing for Alive and Well. Mostly. Friends, family, and fans flocked to the event to purchase books and collect autographs from the authors. By the end of the event, each author had signed 100+ books!

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