"Never really thought much about Alabama's red dirt roads, but now, all I can think about is kicking up their dust.  I miss the hot...

  " So, we're going to treat the Revolutionary War like a football game, okay?  Because that's what it was like, one team advan...

  "H e says he hates to read, but I know you'll change his mind."   "I asked for her to be in your class because you'...

I love books!  I love reading them and I especially love introducing students to them.   So it should come as no surprise that I enjoy makin...

If you're an upper elementary or middle school teacher, you've most likely heard of Alan Gratz, the author of Refugee, Grenade, Proj...

These three books...each one so different from the other...and yet, the resourcefulness and persistence each protagonist shows in her cir...

Historical fiction is sometimes a tough sell for upper elementary students.  It's not that they don't like the ideas, it'...

Ruta Sepetys takes little nuggets of history and turns them into powerfully told, hard-to-forget novels.   Fifteen year old Lina, her...

When students explain why they don't like historical fiction, they usually say something like, "It doesn't grab me in the...