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MMGM: Spotlight on ‘How Tia Lola Came to Stay’

17FebruarySuzanne11 CommentsMarvelous Middle Grades, The Bookshelf

This warm and hilarious book is the perfect antidote for winter-weather blahs. Â I loved it, truly loved it, and challenge anyone to read it without feeling warmer! At the beginning of the book the main character, Miguel, is adjusting to country life in snowy Vermont after his parent’s divorce and the move from New York

Flash Friday: Ode to the Toad

14FebruarySuzanne6 CommentsFlash Friday, Writing

Today’s Flash Friday post was inspired by this valentine, which I put together when a certain frog came calling this past summer and found our toad statue an irresistible place to sit and sun. There’s something about the frog’s (or, more likely, toad’s) expression, as he sits on a giant statue of himself…it captured my

Marvelous Middlegrade Monday, er, Tuesday: May B

11FebruarySuzanne5 CommentsMarvelous Middle Grades, The Bookshelfcaroline starr rose, cat, may b, novel in verse, review, spotlight, twitter how to

Have you ever read a book in verse? Â I hadn’t, and wasn’t sure what to expect. Â Truth…I wasn’t sure I’d like it. Â Poetry has always seemed to me something best suited for shorter forms, though I love Dr. Seuss of course and that’s a bit longer. Â If you’re like me and wondering if it can

Flash Friday: Oh the Woes of a Sleeping Bum

7FebruarySuzanne6 CommentsFlash Friday, Writingblog hop, bum, butt, chicken, flash Friday, flash piece, flash writing, funny, humor, joke, laugh

This what comes from the middle school writing club having been cancelled for three weeks in a row. Â When we finally got together again yesterday and sat down to write our Flash Friday pieces…well, let’s just say, sillyness reigned and fun was had! Â I blame all of that tween energy for this piece. The topic

Hi, my name is SuperBowlMan, and I’m the reason the Broncos lost their Big Game

3FebruarySuzanne1 CommentHome in the Rookery, Just for Laughsbroncos, funny, how come, humor, joke, laugh, lost, meme, superbowl, superbowlgirl, superbowlhero, superbowlman, why

For at least the last fifteen years–longer, most likely–I’ve ignored the Super Bowl so thoroughly that it would come as a surprise to me when I chatted with my brother or friend and learned that today was ‘The Day’ and they’d be attending a party. Â I can’t tell you a single team that’s played in

Flash Friday: If All Else Fails, Fake It…Then Run it Over While No One’s Looking.

31JanuarySuzanne6 CommentsFlash Friday, Writing

Did you ever read the fable about the father, son, and their donkey on the way to market? Â It tells of how they get criticized as they walk along no matter how they arrange themselves–father riding, son riding, both riding, and finally donkey being carried. Â And in the end they slip (while carrying the donkey)

Marvelous Middle Grade Monday: The Hero’s Guide to Saving Your Kingdom

27JanuarySuzanne12 CommentsMarvelous Middle Grades, NinChicks, The Bookshelf

This fabulous little story is to blame for my new pet squid. Â Honest–it’s all their fault! Â If you look between the pages, you’ll see a cleverly written subliminal message telling people that they must have a squid, they can’t transcend themselves and achieve the happiness of enlightenment until they get a squid, and in fact,

Flash Friday: Proud Parents of a Zompire

24JanuarySuzanne8 CommentsFlash Friday, Just for Laughs, Writing

Plenty of parents have noted–in the most loving way possible–that children are rather like vampires. Â They swoop down on you when least expected, prefer to stay up all night, and suck your energy dry. Â When they have the flu they’re also rather like zombies–shuffling around growling at everyone, incapable of coherent communication, and, it sometimes

If You Give a Chicken a Snow Cone…

22JanuarySuzanne6 CommentsHome in the Rookery, Just for Laughs

You can expect them to want some worm-and-acorn flavor to go with it. Â Which will of course lead to your making funky brew in your backyard… While attempting to guess which pile of snow represents the purest flavors, and adjusting your snow cone recipe to accommodate the chickens’ changing taste for icy desserts… only to

Marvelous Middle Grade Monday: Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry

20JanuarySuzanne5 CommentsMarvelous Middle Grades, The Bookshelf

Cassie Logan has been a heroine of mine for some time, so it made perfect sense to me that I schedule the spotlight on Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry for today, Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Of course, that gave me the excuse to pull the book out (once I tracked it down on

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