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The Secret School

Everything about The Secret School

The way The Secret School begins, with four­teen-year-old Ida dri­ving a Mod­el T Ford, but being so short her broth­er need­ed to be on the floor work­ing the clutch and brakes, is a true tale, told to me by a book­store own­er who had gone to a one-room school house. Resources and more for teach­ing this book.

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Sophia's War

Everything about Sophia’s War

For those of you who fea­ture Sophi­a’s War in your cur­ricu­lum or in your read­ing groups, or if you’re con­sid­er­ing this book for your les­son plan­ning, here are resources, links, and guides to help you.

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City of Orphans

Everything about City of Orphans

Immi­grants have arrived in this coun­try for hun­dreds of years. For many of them, life in Amer­i­ca was much hard­er than they expect­ed. Maks’ sto­ry, set in 1893, is one of har­row­ing dan­ger and a lov­ing, car­ing fam­i­ly. In your class­room or book group, open up dis­cus­sions com­par­ing immi­gra­tion then and now, as well as

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Catch You Later, Traitor

Everything about Catch You Later, Traitor

What is truth? What is rumor? To what lengths will a gov­ern­ment go to round up cit­i­zens sus­pect­ed of under­min­ing the Unit­ed States? Set amidst the true events of the McCarthy Era (late 1940s to 1950s), this nov­el is based on my own sto­ry. Class­rooms and book groups will find much to discuss.

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The Fighting Ground

Everything about The Fighting Ground

For many years, schools have includ­ed this book in their Rev­o­lu­tion­ary War cur­ricu­lum because it engen­ders good dis­cus­sions, so in our tour of my books this sum­mer, we need to include The Fight­ing Ground.

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The Button War

Everything Button War

This book is being dis­cussed in class­rooms, book clubs, and peace orga­ni­za­tions around the world, so I offer you some inter­est­ing tid­bits about The But­ton War: Behind the sto­ry It must have been some­thing like forty years ago. I was vis­it­ing my father-in-law with my old­er boys. They were play­ing with some­thing they were col­lect­ing, per­haps baseball

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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

Everything Charlotte Doyle

For The True Con­fes­sions of Char­lotte Doyle, learn the sto­ry behind the book, intrigu­ing resources, book cov­ers over the years, and what we know about a movie version.

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Avi Warwick School Visit

Visiting classrooms

The first time I vis­it­ed a classroom—in my role as a writer—was in 1970. I remem­ber it well. This morn­ing, via Zoom, I vis­it­ed a class in Rum­ford, Rhode Island, via Zoom. Last class of the strangest sea­son. I shall remem­ber it well, too.

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e-book reading

A Computer Screen is Not a Book

On my doorstep, the oth­er day land­ed (with an actu­al thud) an ARC (Advanced Read­ers Copy) of my new book, Loy­al­ty.  … It looks dif­fer­ent, it feels dif­fer­ent, and most fas­ci­nat­ing to me, it reads differently.

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