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Category Archives: A Girl Called Problem
Author visits!
I had such a wonderful set of visits last week. First stop on my tour was a day with 5th graders at the wonderful Boston Collegiate Charter School. What an inspiring school community they have: ever-present, encouraging, extremely hard-working teachers; … Continue reading
Book Tour Time!
I’m looking forward to a fun week! Thursday, I’ll spend the day with students at Boston Collegiate Charter School who have recently finished reading A Girl Called Problem. Visiting with students who have already read the book is always so … Continue reading
Girl Power: The Key to Change
This is a guest post I wrote for the wonderful middle-grade blog, From the Mixed Up Files of…Middle Grade Authors, to celebrate the U.N.’s International Day of the Girl: International Day of the Girl October 11th marks an exciting day … Continue reading
Growing Up With Ujamaa: An Interview
Interested in learning more about the history behind A Girl Called Problem? Following Common Core and looking for a nonfiction supplement to the book? I hope you’ll be as fascinated as I was with this first-hand account of what life … Continue reading
Write what you know. But, what exactly do we know?
Over the last academic year, I’ve met with a variety of students–8th graders to college kids–to talk about the craft of memoir writing. The invites have come because I’m currently working on a memoir about two years I spent in … Continue reading
A Girl Called Problem comes full circle
I started writing A Girl Called Problem as part of a graduate creative writing class taught by Kathryn Reiss at Mills College. In addition to being a very prolific and talented author of teen mysteries, Kathryn has taught young-adult craft … Continue reading
The Amelia Bloomer List!
A Girl Called Problem made the 2014 Amelia Bloomer Project List. This is a list, compiled by the American Library Association, of the year’s best feminist literature for readers aged birth to 18. It’s an honor to find A Girl … Continue reading
While on the topic of lists…
I’m overdue in celebrating this mention from the wonderful Betsy Bird at School Library Journal’s Fuse #8 Blog, but A Girl Called Problem‘s own Mama Shida made Ms. Bird’s list for the “WORST parents of 2013” in kid lit. Here’s … Continue reading
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Visiting Old Town Elementary School!
I had a wonderful time visiting Old Town Elementary School last week. They have a gorgeous school building, which has been divided up into intimate communities of small groups of classrooms with their own courtyard spaces.The 2nd graders have been … Continue reading
More lists!
A Girl Called Problem recently made two more best-of lists for 2013: VOYA’s 2013 Top Shelf for Middle School Readers List. VOYA is the leading library journal dedicated to young adult fiction and young adult readers. and The Notable Social Studies Trade Books … Continue reading
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