PROJECT MAYHEM

Before I began writing middle grade, I wrote plays for fifteen years. I never thought—in a million years—that I would ever write...

April is National Poetry Month, but, unfortunately, tell that to a bunch of middle graders, and you just might get a groan or two (or is t...

As I've said here before , it's not always easy to find books that interest both my boys. Now that they're getting older (Happy ...

This post originally ran at Caroline by line December 2011. My boys are at an age when my suggestions for read alouds aren't always gr...