The Book Club for Kids talks satisfying reads and Gary D. Schmidt’s ORBITING JUPITER
The Book Club for Kids episode is about Gary D. Schmidt’s Orbiting Jupiter. Note: I’ve read Orbiting Jupiter and liked it AND I think you may want to read it yourself before reading it with the kids. It’s definitely YA rather than middle grade in my opinion. There’s also a sequel to this book that […]
The Olympic Games Blues: 9 Ways to Juice Up Your Writing Life
Local people call this building Zitronenpresse or the “lemon juicer.” What do you do when your writing life runs out of juice? © Laurel Decher, 2016. Do you need to turn off the Olympic Games? When my older brother and I were 8 or 10 or 12 years old, Mom would turn off the Olympic […]
A Novel Way for Young Readers to Relate to Faith?
Last week, my husband and I visited Marburg, the town where we first met. In 2017, Marburg joined many cities in Germany in a celebration of Martin Luther and the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. Belief, politics, power all mixed together to shape Europe’s history. Events were planned all over Germany. The Playmobil company even […]