“Ninety minutes ago, I was getting off the school bus. An hour ago, I saw a bird that might be a black swift. And now I’m standing in a kitchen, trying to shoot ice from my hands?” Noah Grow pg. 53 The Drake Equation by Bart King
“My heart was racing as I asked, ‘What do you think about your books being banned from our library?’
“ ‘Noch’ ved’m,’ I whisper to myself as I crouch in the rubble of our apartment building and watch the searchlights scraping the night, looking for those tiny planes, the U-2 trainers. Tatyana and I had both learned to fly these light biplanes, their four wings made of wood and canvas. Open cockpit. No parachutes. In these fragile machines the women of the 588th Regiment harass the Ger
Imagine the New York Times best-selling author of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library, Chris Grabenstein, sending a writing prompt to two time Newbery Medal winner and author of Because of Winn Dixie, Kate DiCamillo. The prompt asks DiCamillo to write “… a song about moldy pizza, rancid butter, and flat root beer.” pg. 153 Oh yeah, and it needs to be a love song!
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