by Rebecca | Dec 5, 2020 | Alone in the Woods, audience, awards and honors, book clubs, everyone's a critic, JLG, news, reviews, survival stories
Here’s a roundup of some more news and reviews for Alone in the Woods! The book received great reviews from BCCB and the Midwest Book Review: Behrens plays fair with both the friendship drama and the survival story, and each protagonist’s voice is astute and...
by Rebecca | Mar 26, 2020 | adventures, book clubs, eReading, eventful, In Case of Emergency, middle grade, news, readers/reception, Sourcebooks, survival stories, talking about writing, teachers are the best, The Disaster Days, this is how we read it, verisimilitude, What I'm Reading Right Now
The scariest thing about writing The Disaster Days was realizing how the heightened scenario I put my characters in–which really felt like capital-F Fiction when I started working on the book, despite all that research–was, actually, pretty realistic....
by Rebecca | May 23, 2017 | Aladdin, book clubs, books, contests and giveaways, happy happy joy joy, i heart the beach, news, pairs well with a hammock, paperback, pretty pretty, releases, Simon & Schuster, Summer of Lost and Found, summertime, teachers are the best, The Last Grand Adventure
It might be a little chilly and gloomy this week, but Summer is finally here–at least in paperback. It was a real treat to come home from a great day at #nErDcampNJ last Saturday and find a package with some early copies inside. It’s the same gorgeous art...
by Rebecca | May 16, 2015 | audrey and alice, book clubs, rare Saturday post alert, Sourcebooks, this is how we read it
My mom and I have been discussing books since I was a kid–not surprising, considering I have always been a reader and she is a former English/Language Arts teacher. Over the years, reading together has helped us understand our own relationship better, see each...
