All Blog Posts Tagged 'middle-grade' (3)

Author Interview with Natasha House

I met Natasha House on Book Blogs. She has been happily married for seven years. She enjoys reading, writing, singing, playing piano, and crafting. Her dream is to be a full-time author one day and quit her day job!

Christine: How, and when, did you decide to become a writer?

Natasha: I decided…

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Added by Christine Rice on November 7, 2012 at 10:57am — No Comments

Middle-Grade/Teen Fiction Review: Things Not Seen

“It’s a Tuesday morning in February, and I get up as usual, and I stumble into the bathroom to take a shower in the dark. Which is my school-day method because it’s sort of like an extra ten minutes of sleep.

It’s after the shower. That’s when it happens.

It’s when I turn on the bathroom light and wipe the fog off the mirror to comb my hair. It’s what I see in the mirror. It’s what I don’t see.

I look a second time, and then rub at the mirror again.

I’m not… Continue

Added by Sue Jackson on February 26, 2009 at 3:37pm — No Comments

Middle-Grade Nonfiction Review: Chasing Lincoln's Killer

James L. Swanson’s book, Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer, has been at the top of the best-seller lists for a long time, but I hadn’t gotten around to reading it yet. I was thrilled to hear that he’d recently published a young adult version called Chasing Lincoln’s Killer.

“This story is true. All the characters are real and were alive during the great manhunt of April 1865. Their words are authentic and come from original sources: letters, manuscripts,… Continue

Added by Sue Jackson on February 23, 2009 at 3:42pm — No Comments