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Medicine and Health in Children's and YA Lit: A Long Walk To Water
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Medicine and Health in Children's and YA Lit. Reflections of Medicine and Health in fiction and non-fiction. For more about Janice Scully, please check out http:/ janicescully.writersresidence.com. Sunday, June 17, 2012. A Long Walk To Water. Upon hearing a story of impossible journeys, filled with physical torment, uncertainty, loneliness and loss, we ask, "How do human beings survive such things? Think of the courage of Cambodian refugees in the novel Never Fall Down,. What boosts his courage? When the...
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Medicine and Health in Children's and YA Lit: A Thousand Splendid Suns
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Medicine and Health in Children's and YA Lit. Reflections of Medicine and Health in fiction and non-fiction. For more about Janice Scully, please check out http:/ janicescully.writersresidence.com. Friday, February 21, 2014. A Thousand Splendid Suns. A Thousand Splendid Suns,. Dead or injured relatives abound, usually well before the age of twenty in the lives of most kids. But there is also a love story that feels very much like Romeo and Juliet. I felt the book was honest and evocative and well worth r...
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Medicine and Health in Children's and YA Lit: The Healing Spell
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Medicine and Health in Children's and YA Lit. Reflections of Medicine and Health in fiction and non-fiction. For more about Janice Scully, please check out http:/ janicescully.writersresidence.com. Monday, February 6, 2012. The most compelling middle grade characters have indomitable wills, in other words, they will stop at nothing to get what they want. Think: Bud in Bud Not Buddy. And Jody in The Yearling. And how they faced impossible circumstances with grit. By author Kimberley Griffiths Little.
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Medicine and Health in Children's and YA Lit: You Are The Best Medicine
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Medicine and Health in Children's and YA Lit. Reflections of Medicine and Health in fiction and non-fiction. For more about Janice Scully, please check out http:/ janicescully.writersresidence.com. Wednesday, February 23, 2011. You Are The Best Medicine. The theme of this beautifully illustrated picture book by Julie Aigner Clark. And illustrator Jana Christy. Is stated clearly in the last eight words: "love and kindness really are the best medicine." Do they convince us? February 24, 2011 at 8:17 AM.
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GottaBook: Mary Lee Hahn - Green Door
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Thoughts, opinions, and ramblings about (broadly) children's literature from my perspectives as a writer, parent, and volunteer elementary school librarian. Plus I post Fibs, Oddaptations and poetry galore, all listed on the right and left hand sides of the blog. 30 Poets/30 Days - April 2013. Featuring previously unpublished poetry by. Stephen W. Cahill. 30 Poets/30 Days - April 2012. Featuring previously unpublished poetry by. Robert L. Forbes. Michael J. Rosen. 30 Poets/30 Days - April 2011. Duo or as...
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GottaBook: Irene Latham - Octopus Postcards
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Thoughts, opinions, and ramblings about (broadly) children's literature from my perspectives as a writer, parent, and volunteer elementary school librarian. Plus I post Fibs, Oddaptations and poetry galore, all listed on the right and left hand sides of the blog. 30 Poets/30 Days - April 2013. Featuring previously unpublished poetry by. Stephen W. Cahill. 30 Poets/30 Days - April 2012. Featuring previously unpublished poetry by. Robert L. Forbes. Michael J. Rosen. 30 Poets/30 Days - April 2011. Has provi...
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GottaBook: Jon Agee - High Jump
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Thoughts, opinions, and ramblings about (broadly) children's literature from my perspectives as a writer, parent, and volunteer elementary school librarian. Plus I post Fibs, Oddaptations and poetry galore, all listed on the right and left hand sides of the blog. 30 Poets/30 Days - April 2013. Featuring previously unpublished poetry by. Stephen W. Cahill. 30 Poets/30 Days - April 2012. Featuring previously unpublished poetry by. Robert L. Forbes. Michael J. Rosen. 30 Poets/30 Days - April 2011. Oh, yes, ...
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Do Twitter and Blogs Really Drive Book Sales? | Follow The Reader
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Laquo; 5 Ways to Put More Skin in the Game. Nurturing Literary Culture: Ron Hogan. Do Twitter and Blogs Really Drive Book Sales? June 24, 2009 by Charlotte Abbott. We’ve all heard the old adage that “fifty percent of advertising works, we just don’t know which fiftty percent it is.” But does it apply to book chatter on Twitter and blogs? And if so, now that it’s becoming possible to measure just about everything through digital analysis, do we have to accept that it’s still true? Science fiction review b...
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Medicine and Health in Children's and YA Lit: Eleanor and Park
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Medicine and Health in Children's and YA Lit. Reflections of Medicine and Health in fiction and non-fiction. For more about Janice Scully, please check out http:/ janicescully.writersresidence.com. Tuesday, January 21, 2014. To read the YA novel Eleanor and Park. I was afraid to continue, though I had to. Rowell's storytelling is great. I thought the ending was just right. Would that all modern Romeos were as responsible. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Fayetteville, New York. Inspired by my experien...
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