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Story Maps and Boxes 6/28/2001 [Language Arts, Literature, Reading Grades 3 - 5, 6 - 8, 9 - 12 Submitted by Patricia A. Fry] Patricia A. Fry, a teacher at Templeton Middle School in Sussex, Wisconsin, submitted this week's lesson that has students creating story maps to share information about books they have read.

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DeHart reviews books at Reading and Literature Resources Blog and taught middle grades English for eight years.

A Los Angeles book launch event on Dec. 2 featured four Teach Plus Teaching Policy Fellows and contributing writers: Sujata Bhatt, founder of the Incubator School; Kyle Hunsberger, a mathematics teacher at Johnnie L. Cochrain, Jr., Middle School who developed and successfully implemented a 6th - grade basic - skills intervention program; Jeannette Marrone, a founding teacher at Environmental Science and Technology High School; and Stephanie Widmer, a Teach for America Learning Team Leader and humanities teacher at Camino Nuevo Charter Academy.

This book reports on key elements of success at six urban middle - grades school districts that are part of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation's Program for Student Achievement.

Anne Wheelock's 1998 book, «Safe to Be Smart: Building a Culture for Standards - Based Reform in the Middle Grades,» now has a study guide, available free at the National Middle School Association website.

I also employed a very light drift of fantasy in my adult novel The Uncoupling, as well as in a book for middle - grade readers about kids who meet at a Scrabble tournament, called The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman.

In addition to reviewing middle grade and YA books for BookPage, Jill Ratzan reviews for School Library Journal and works as a school librarian at a small independent school.

At her publisher's request, she reduced the protagonist's age in her middle grade book The Eighth Day from 14 to 13, because «age 14 was a No Man's Land as far as book stores... are concerned.

When he was around the middle - grade age, I realized that these were the books I had needed at that age as well.

Holly Black, co-author of the best - selling Spiderwick Chronicles and author of several fantasies for teens, aims her latest book, Doll Bones, squarely at the middle - grade audience.

At Fuse, Laurie specializes in adult genre fiction (romance, fantasy, science fiction, mystery, thrillers, suspense, horror, etc.) plus middle - grade and young adult children's books.

I've reviewed at least a dozen books in three months, edited a 94,000 word middle grade novel, offered feedback on the work of six critique group members, wrote a technical manual for a business, constructed a grant proposal for an individual, tweaked a historical article for an upcoming state project, and became a writer for Demand Studios.

After years of radio silence for her fans, admittedly while she collaborates on some of the most highly innovative movies to come out of a book series, especially one aimed at middle grade readers, J.K Rowling is unleashing something new.

A former acquiring editor at Little, Brown and Simon & Schuster, Sangeeta Mehta is a freelance book editor focusing on middle grade, young adult and commercial women's fiction.

I am a professional developmental editor and copy editor at BookBuddy Media, a YA and middle grade publishing company, and have edited over 100 books for publication.

This well - crafted picture book for middle grades offers a look at WWII's Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) through the experience of Maggie Gee, an Asian American pilot.

WEISMAN: After several very successful young adult titles, your last two books, Furthermore and Whichwood, are aimed at middle - grade readers.

If you look back at her work for young readers, from picture books to middle grade nonfiction, you'll find she uses this approach carefully and in a way that brings the reader right into the time and story.

The press release describes it as both middle grade and young adult, so the book's age range is unclear at this time.

And I would love to suggest adding Rochelle Deans at http://www.rochelledeans.com/... Rochelle has recently edited my initial two middle grade books.

Little Bigfoot, Big City by Jennifer Weiner, Book 2 of the Littlest Bigfoot series, a review Published 2017 by Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing, 317 pages Genre: Middle grade fantasy, aimed at readers approximately 12 years old

A Vice President at Curtis Brown Ltd. literary agency, Elizabeth Harding represents authors and illustrators of juvenile, middle - grade and young adult fiction and her list include New York Times bestsellers, Newbery, National Book Award, Printz, and Coretta Scott King honor and award winners.

My guest post today is by C. Lee McKenzie, blogger and author friend, who has a new middle grade book out that looks awesome: Alligators, witches and a spooky mansion aren't your average neighbors... not unless you live at the edge of the Ornofree swamp in the backwater town of Hadleyville.

At the same time, I don't regret going through a small publisher for my first novel, and I'm still pursuing traditional / big publishing for my middle grade series (because those are the right choices for those books).

At the moment we're having a very great success with both our middle - grade and young teen books in China.

Then you may be interested in my Q&A over at Kirkus today with Mariko Tamaki, pictured above, who has adapted the award - winning comic books series to a novel for middle - grade readers, complete with spot illustrations by Brooke Allen.

Boogie Down's next book event at Mottley will be a discussion on May 24 about The Doughnut Fix (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky) with middle - grade author Jessie Janowitz, featuring free donuts from the café.

I've already started experimenting with a new middle - grade book called «Alienated» (about the only human boy in the school for aliens at Area 51) and have involved a hundred children in the development of the book, chapter by chapter.