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Story Genius’ Misbelief in Paul Acampora’s HOW TO AVOID EXTINCTION

Posted by beckylevine on 29 Mar 2017 in Book Review, MG Lunch Break, Middle-Grade Fiction |No Comments

I’m blogging about the writing craft in one of my newest favorite books today over at MG Lunch Break. Check it out.

Peter Brown’s THE WILD ROBOT: Seeing Yourself in a Book that is Totally Not About You or For You

Posted by beckylevine on 22 Mar 2017 in Book Review, Middle-Grade Fiction |No Comments

I just read Peter Brown‘s The Wild Robot. By the time this post is live, I’ll have discussed it in a virtual book club this weekend, but we come at our books as writers looking at the craft and I don’t think that discussion and this post are going to overlap much. Because, as good as it […]

MG Lunch Break…Come See What (and How) We’re Reading

Posted by beckylevine on 10 Nov 2016 in Middle-Grade Fiction, Uncategorized |No Comments

A blog post or few ago, I said I had various reasons for starting up my blog again. And one of them is very cool–I got invited to join a great team at another blog, the MG Lunch Break writers and readers. Kristi Wright Anne-Marie Strohman Jen Jobart Sonya Doernberg Kat St. Claire In their non-virtual lives, […]