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What’s Up Wednesday, 10/9

by Rebecca | Oct 9, 2013 | ARCs, audrey and alice, contests and giveaways, covers, What I'm Reading Right Now, what's up wednesday, writing

What’s Up Wednesday is a weekly meme that helps readers and writers touch base with blog friends. If you’d like to join in, you can find the link widget on Jaime’s and Erin’s blog posts. I love this idea because it gives a structured, easy way...

Around the Web

by Rebecca | Sep 2, 2013 | Adventures in Bloggysitting, debutanting, middle grade, onefour kidlit, What I'm Reading Right Now, YA book club

Happy Labor Day! I’m back from a trip to the Midwest and taking the day *off* before more revising starts tomorrow. But in the meantime, I have two posts elsewhere online:A OneFour Kid Lit interview with YA author (and agentmate) Sara Polsky about her debut,...

Bookanista Rec: Wonder

by Rebecca | Aug 29, 2013 | Bookanistas, books, chose kindness, middle grade, watch out I'm getting all verklempt, What I'm Reading Right Now

It’s time for another Bookanista recommendation: R. J. Palacio’s Wonder.Here’s the summary from Goodreads: August (Auggie) Pullman was born with a facial deformity that prevented him from going to a mainstream school—until now. He’s about to...

MMGM: Every Day After

by Rebecca | Jun 10, 2013 | Adventures in Bloggysitting, books, debutanting, historical fiction, middle grade, MMGM, onefour kidlit, this is how we read it, What I'm Reading Right Now

One of the many fun things about being part of OneFour KidLit is getting to interview debut 2013 authors about their great new books. Tomorrow, my interview with Laura Golden, author of Every Day After, will be up on the OneFour blog. But I couldn’t wait until...

MMGM: Will Sparrow’s Road

by Rebecca | May 6, 2013 | books, historical fiction, middle grade, MMGM, nerdiness, this is how we read it, What I'm Reading Right Now

As a reader, I have a strong pull toward girl heroines–if I were to break down the kid lit I read, probably 92% has a female MC or narrator. Also as a writer, I generally find inspiration in girl POVs. So I’ve been meaning to pick up more books that have...

Mira’s Diary: Home Sweet Rome (MMGM!)

by Rebecca | Apr 22, 2013 | authors, middle grade, MMGM, Sourcebooks, this is how we read it, What I'm Reading Right Now

I really love time-travel books, and one of the things I’ve enjoyed about reading lots of them is that different authors tend to focus on distinct aspects of time travel. The Time Traveler’s Wife focuses on how it affected relationships; Stephen...
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