I’ve been thinking a lot about this question lately–should characters change throughout the course of a novel, and more specifically–should they change for the better? In the latest novel I’m working on, I had a fairly simple, but hopefully humorous-appealing-to-boys story, idea for a middle-grade series–especially book one. While writing it and finishing the first [...]
December 5, 2012 in Book Club Possibility, Books With Social Studies Content, Elementary Educators, Finding My Place by Margo Dill, Middle Grade Novel, Reading Skills, Writing Skills
Tags: character study, characterization, Finding My Place | 5 Comments »
In my novel, Finding My Place: One Girl’s Strength at Vicksburg which you can buy here, I have a main character and her brother, who is also in the book A LOT! I hope that this will help the book appeal to both girls and boys. I thought I would start with Anna Green, whom [...]
October 10, 2012 in Book Club Possibility, Books With Social Studies Content, Elementary Educators, Finding My Place by Margo Dill, Middle Grade Novel, Reading Skills
Tags: character study, Finding My Place, United States Civil War, White Mane Kids | 2 Comments »
Reviewed by Margo Dill, margodll@aol.com, www.margodill.com Middle grade novel, realistic fiction 13-year-old boy as main character Rating: Gary Paulsen tells a captivating story of Brian and his plight in Hatchet, a Newberry Honor Book. Short, short summary: In Hatchet, Gary Paulsen tells the story of Brian Robeson, who is taking a single engine plane to [...]
March 19, 2009 in Creative Writing activities, Elementary Educators, Making Personal Connections, Middle Grade Novel, Paulsen, Gary
Tags: character study, Gary Paulsen, Hatchet, Middle Grade Novel, Newberry Honor Book, writing activities | 6 Comments »
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