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Demigods invade BookPeople!

The tour for The Sea of Monsters has been phenomenal! Many thanks to Anderson’s, Diane’s, Bank Street Books, Books of Wonder and all the other great bookstores who have sponsored…

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Demigod of the Week

A fan sent this photo from a holiday in Greece. This brave young half-blood (who really is the child of a mother named Athena, go figure!) is holding the pen-sword…

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Fidgeting in Classroom May Help Students

This was an interesting article in the news today. Sitting still perhaps isn’t always the best thing for kids. I’ve suspected for years that a middle schooler’s incessant need to…

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Rick’s recent reads

The Penderwicks, by Jeanne Birdsall. I’ll admit I approach award-winning children’s books with some trepidation. All too often, children’s literature awards denote books that appeal to adult librarians and book…

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Rethinking ADHD, New York Times article

A great article on ADHD from today’s New York Times. I love the term “attention surplus disorder.” Perhaps the half-bloods from The Lightning Thief are right. ADHD was a useful…

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Rick’s recent reads 3/3/06

A Great and Terrible Beauty, by Libba Bray.Okay, so I was a little slow discovering this, but since Rebel Angels just came out, I figured I would read the first…

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When’s the Movie Coming Out?

The cartoon pretty much says it all! In Frank McCourt’s most recent memoir, Teacher Man, he writes about the huge increase in attention he got when his book Angela’s Ashes…

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The Standardized Test Monster

Today is the first day of TAKS, the standardized test all students are required to take in Texas. As I read the article below in my local paper, I wasn’t…

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The Trouble with Boys in School

I read a very interesting MSNBC article today on boys and how they struggle in the American school system . http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10965522/site/newsweek/ If you haven’t read William Pollack’s book “Real Boys,”…

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