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World Read-Aloud Day!

On World Read Aloud Day (WRAD) I’m donating 12 back to back 15 minute readings / quick chats with 12 schools. Many thanks to Kate Messner who helps distribute a listing of authors willing to volunteer their time on WRAD so that students who might otherwise never hear an author read, get to do so! My schedule filled up within a day or so of being posted. The final slot was an add-on because two Manitoba students (Zander and Chaz) wanted to interview me, so I offered them this instead. Their whole class is joining in.

10:15-10:28: Sterling Grade School

10:30 – 10:43: Colchester Middle School

10:45-10:58am: Tucker Creek Middle School, NC

11am to 11:13am: Batesburg-Leesville Middle School NC

11:15-11:28am: 6th grade Mamaroneck UFSD

11:30 – 11:43: Seneca East Local Schools, Attica Ohio

11:45 – 11: 58: S. C. Lee Junior High ccisd.com

12-12:13: grades 5/6 Gideon Welles School, Glastonbury, CT

12:15 – 12:28: 6th grade, Polly Ryon Middle School in Rosenberg, Texas

12:30 (9:30 pacific) – 12:43: 8th grade, Paakuma’ San Bernardino City, California

12:45 (9:45 pacific) – 12:58: Orland California, CK Price MS

1pm – 1:15: 8th grade, Melita School, Manitoba

World Read-Aloud Day 2023

Eleven schools on WRAD23. The 2 in Texas were snowed out (stay safe and warm my friends) and one school was late, but by luck that coincided with a snowed out school, so all good. In addition to Winterkill I talked about Sylvia McNicoll’s What the Dog Knows and Adrian Lysenko’ s Five Stalks of Grain, and then showed the best nonfiction written about the Holodomor, Anne Applebalm’s Red Famine. 

Educator feedback:

“Thank you for reading aloud to my fifth and sixth graders today. It was fabulous. We now have a waiting list for Making Bombs for Hitler and for Winterkill.“

“Thank you so much for Zooming with us this morning. The excerpt you read was powerful and I anticipate Winterkill being checked out for the foreseeable future! Thank you for shining a light on this lesser known piece of history.”

“We enjoyed hearing you read from Winterkill and learning so much about your writing process.”

Thanks again for visiting with us! Every single one of your books that I have are checked out to students now! Success! 

World Read-Aloud Day

It was a fun day celebrating World Read Aloud Day with seven schools and multiple classes within those schools. Many thanks to librarians and educators who scrambled amidst family emergencies, covid quarantines, and snow storms to still make the sessions happen. Mostly, I read the opening pages of my newest novel, Traitors Among Us, but Sara Lema of Allendale Michigan asked if I could read Chapter 16, The Blue Room, because she had been reading the book aloud to her class and that’s where they were! It was such fun for me to read in the middle of my book like that!Here’s a pic from Knowlton School in NJ and Weiner Elementary in AZ.