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Middle Grade Ninja: NINJA STUFF: Winding Down for the Holidays
As you can see, Mrs. Ninja and I are shining a signal in the sky and waiting for our little crime-fighter to be born. We had the nerdiest and best baby shower ever last weekend. The theme was children’s books (naturally) and the cake was a replica of the cover from James and the Giant […]
Middle Grade Ninja: The First Five Chapters of BANNEKER BONES AND THE GIANT ROBOT BEES
Publication Date: October 31, 2014 | Age Level: 9 – 12 | Grade Level: 4 – UP “Let me say at once that I think this is a most original and amusing piece of work. A reader is arrested at the outset by a paradoxical witticism and he goes on being arrested as the story […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author Annette Laing
British-born Annette Laing is author of The Snipesville Chronicles, a series of novels about the adventures of three kids who time-travel in British and American history. Click here to read my review. Dr. Laing is also a historian of early America and the Atlantic World. She has written several articles on popular religious culture, and […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author F.T. Bradley
F.T. Bradley is the author of Double Vision (Harper Children’s, Oct. 2012), the first in the middle-grade adventure series featuring Lincoln Baker and Benjamin Green. Her husband’s Air Force career has F.T. and their two daughters moving all around the world, but for the moment the family lives on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. To find […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author Marina Weber
Marina Weber has been a passionate activist since she was six. Marina plays herself in the story of her debut children’s book – The Global Warming Express. She believes in righting wrongs and in helping others to be heard, seen, and assisted. She is also fearless and single-minded when it comes to completing her quest, […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author Tom Angleberger
Tom Angleberger also writes under the pen name Sam Riddleburger. He is the bestselling author of The Strange Case of Origami Yoda, which won the 2010 E. B. White Read Aloud Award for middle readers, Darth Paper Strikes Back, and Horton Halfpott, which Kirkus dubbed “a romp from start to finish.” He lives in Christiansburg, […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author Donna Gephart
Donna Gephart’s new novel, How to Survive Middle School, garnered starred reviews from Kirkus and School Library Journal. Click here to read my review. Her first book, As If Being 12 3/4 Isn’t Bad Enough, My Mother Is Running for President! won the Sid Fleischman Humor Award. Donna has fun speaking at schools, book festivals […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Author John Claude Bemis
John Claude Bemis tried to write about wizards and dragons. Growing up in rural eastern North Carolina, he read fantasy classics like J.R.R. Tolkein and C.S. Lewis. But when it he began writing his own fantasy-adventure books, he decided to look to a different set of archetypes. John found inspiration for his fiction in old-time […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Literary Agent Alec Shane
Alec majored in English at Brown University, a degree he put to immediate use by moving to Los Angeles after graduation to become a professional stunt man. Realizing that he prefers books to breakaway glass, he moved to New York City in 2008 to pursue a career in publishing. Alec quickly found a home at […]
Middle Grade Ninja: 7 Questions For: Literary Agent Daniel Lazar
Daniel Lazar, the oldest of six children, is originally from Israel. He grew up in Baltimore where his mother took him and his sisters to the library every week, which undoubtedly fed his passion for books. He then moved to New York for school where he landed an internship at Writers House. The highlight of […]