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You know when you enjoy a book so much you begin to slow down towards the end just to make the sweetness last?  Well, Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book is one of those.  NG writes with a rhythm in his ...

I loved Derek Landy's Skulduggery Pleasant.  Let me say it again: I loved this book.  It's edgy, dark, and hilarious.  I haven't read a vivid character like this is a long time.  Skulduggery is in one breath a rapscallion, a ...

 Here's how I have set up this lesson:    Having been trained in the America's Choice Writer's Workshop as well as History Alive, I have my students keep a Writer's Journal with a running Table of Contents.  This is a journal that ...