Leigh Anne Eck

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Best Middle Grade Books 2024 | SLJ Best Books Gripping fantastical journeys, family secrets, unbridled joy, and inconceivable loss: in these pages, tweens are facing it all. These 26 middle grade titles are exemplars across genre of the power of…

So happy to see my good friend and occasional co-author @choldenko.bsky.social on this list of School Library Journal's best #mglit of 2024. 💙

Plus @mrschureads.bsky.social, #JasmineWarga, and many more wonderful authors!

What a great collection of poetry. I have missed this!

My 2024 Reading Wrap-Up The year is days from ending, and people are beginning to talk, write, and post about reading challenges from the past year and the upcoming...

It has been a dismal reading year for me, but I have learned a few things. I am sharing those lessons and my favorite books of 2024. adayinthelifeof19b.blogspot.com/2024/12/my-2...

Today we played a Christmas trivia Kahoot. We had a question about filling wooden shoes. I heard a student say, “I know that! I read a book in elementary school.”
Another question about where poinsettias come from. I hear the same thing. They remember reading a book! Background knowledge matters!

How long are your students’ notebook entries with these prompts? My students just can’t seem to generate much if I don’t give them more than this.

This was the first professional book I read as a beginning teacher, and I can’t even begin to say how it has impacted my teaching!

One Piece of Advice From 27 Middle Grade and Picture Book Authors in 2024 Collected here is one piece of advice for writers from 27 different middle grade and picture book authors featured in our author spotlight series in 2024, including Debbie Ridpath Ohi, Ernest Cline, Dan Gutman, Arihhonni David, Alina Tysoe, and more.

A gift basket of writing advice—and it arrives on time for any holiday you celebrate (or not)—from MG and picture book authors! www.writersdigest.com/write-better...