10 Yuck-Inducing Nonfiction Reads for Middle Grade Fans of All Things Gross From fish farts to how animal poop helps fight the climate crisis, these STEM books will inform and satisfy readers who enjoy supercool titles about the slimy and disgusting.

10 Yuck-Inducing Nonfiction Reads for Middle Grade Fans of All Things Gross
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Fresh off winning her first NCAA women’s basketball title at the University of Connecticut, superstar guard Paige Bueckers was selected No. 1 overall by the Dallas Wings in Monday night’s WNBA draft in New York. cnn.it/3XYV0jc

Stand with Ukraine.

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REMEMBER: THIS Friday, February 28. NOT 1 PENNY SPENT. We can DO this. I'm IN, are YOU?

Absolutely.

Can you please share more details on how you did this?

One Word of the Year Activity - www.controlaltachieve.com/2025/01/one-...

🔗 Free Google Slides "Photo Word" template
▶️ Demo video with directions
🧒 Great for students & educators
🧭 Set a goal or focus for the year

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This sounds like heaven!

Agree or disagree?

Fighting cancer is hard enough, we shouldn’t have to fight insurance companies and the government too!

This is so true! Reading should also never be used as a “punishment “, at home or school

Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.

Teachers & librarians! Want me to be your virtual author-in-residence this spring? I've cooked up some special National Poetry Month plans to get kids writing - details are here! katemessner.com/announcing-a...

Resources Resources for Educators and Librarians Browse our collection of free resources for readers kindergarten through twelfth grade including author studies, educator's guides, book club guides, and…

Teachers and librarians, if you're looking for resources for next semester, check out the Harper Stacks page. It's full of educator's guides, activities, reading lists, & more—including materials for my "One and Only" stories. 🦍🐕🐘

Fabulous Features of Google Docs Google Docs is a powerful word processing program with loads of useful features , and Google frequently adds new tools and options. Even if...

I presented on Google Docs for the OASSA Secretary Conference this morning. Here are the resources I shared with 24 of my favorite Google Docs features:
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Which are your favorites? What did I leave out?

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Libraries are absolutely the best places on earth.

🖍️ Library Girl Reading Challenges: December Just for fun, I’ve started creating monthly reading challenges for readers of all ages. Here's the one for December!I started creating these reading challenges as a way to offer some examples of how we might challenge kids to read in authentic ways that center joy and fun. I hope they also help teachers and librarians build even stronger reading communities. It's been a fun project and it's been incredibly rewarding to see them being used in schools and libraries around the country (I haven't se

Back in January, just for fun, I started creating FREE monthly reading challenges/coloring sheets for readers of all ages - because both #reading and #coloring help to reduce stress. Here’s the one for December + all the others!
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Let's do a giveaway,!

ELMORE THE CHRISTMAS MOOSE (art by @mikeboldt.bsky.social) makes a fantastic gift! I'm giving away 3 signed copies, one with this handsome plush Elmore bookmark.

Follow & share by 11/23, bonus entry if you comment with a weird and wonderful Xmas anecdote.

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Book cover THE TROUBLE WITH HEROES shows a surly 7th grade boy with a backpack and FDNY baseball hat standing on top of a mountain, looking into the distance. A drooly Bernese Mountain Dog looks up at him adoringly.

Time for a book giveaway!

If you'd like me to mail you an advance copy of my Apr. '25 MG novel in verse THE TROUBLE WITH HEROES, follow & share this post. Bonus entry if you also reply w/ a pic from a recent hike!

I'll draw winners on 12/1.

About the book:
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