Category: General
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Mary Amato ISBNs
ISBNS for Mary Amato’s Books: Good Crooks Book One: Missing Monkey Good Crooks Book Two: Dog Gone! Guitar Notes Edgar Allan’s Official Crime Investigation Notebook (Holiday House, 2010). ISBN-13:978-0823423866 Invisible Lines (Egmont USA, 2009). ISBN-13:978-1606841877 Take the Mummy and Run: The Riot Brothers are on a Roll (Holiday House, 2009). ISBN-13:978-0823422739 The Chicken of the…
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My Writer’s Notebook Video
Teachers, you can pause this video in two places in order to stimulate discussion. Pause it right after I ask: Can you guess why I like small notebooks? Allow your students to guess, and then push play to hear my answers. Next, pause it after I ask: Can you guess what else I put in…
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Jim Benton’s Secret
Jim Benton, author of the popular Dear Dumb Diary series, says that the diary format frees him up. When he gets into character, in this case the “writer” is a middle school girl named Jamie Kelly, he lets it all pour out. “Jamie can write about anything because she thinks nobody will read it.” If you’re…
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Songwriting Workshop with Mary Amato
Are you a teen who loves to write poetry but struggles with song lyrics that work? Or are you a songwriter wanting to take it up a notch? Find out more about summer songwriting workshops…
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Landon School for Boys
Thanks to Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Agarwal for inviting me to Landon School for Boys. Here I am standing next to the fantastic life-size image of me created by a talented Landon student. He even got my boots right! The boys were attentive and engaged and asked excellent questions. After my presentation, fifth grade teacher…
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Hillcrest Elementary School (PA)
WOW! Hillcrest Elementary School (PA) knocked me out with their enthusiasm and great ideas. Ms. Toomey, music teacher, led the Select Chorus in a song about my books! Ms. Falcone and her fourth graders showed me the collaborative journal they started, inspired by my book Please Write in This Book, and I got to add…
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Belmont Hills (PA) Elementary School
Thanks to all the kids, staff, the enthusiastic media specialist Cathy Kaufman and the principal. Thanks also to PTA representative Lynn Siegel for being such a great host. Belmont Hills loves to read! I enjoyed seeing all the READ posters of teachers and staff members hanging in the school. What a fantastic idea!
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Thanks, Texas!
Flew into Austin, Texas, “the live music capital of the world” for my first ever Texas Library Association conference (2011). Guitars were everywhere…even at the airport! I thought I landed in heaven. Texas hospitality is not fictional. It’s true! Librarians were so friendly and warm and full of great ideas.…