by Carol Cross | Jul 16, 2014 | Blog
“When I’m with Lula, I always feel like she’s chocolate cake with a lot of fancy frosting and I’m more in the ballpark of a bagel.”–Janet Evanovich, Top Secret Twenty OneLet’s be honest–who hasn’t felt that at...
by Carol Cross | Jul 15, 2014 | Blog
Only “Weird Al” Yankovic could make such an important statement about the need for good grammar in such an amusing way. I think I’ll make this required viewing for all Heroic University families! He does include some of my personal top pet...
by Carol Cross | Jul 13, 2014 | Blog
The gist of this book by New York Times bestseller author Katherine Howe–which happens to be her first foray into YA writing–is a high school senior who uses something she is reading in school to help figure out issues in her real life. So if you know...
by Carol Cross | Jul 9, 2014 | Blog
I’ve been remiss in letting you all know of an opportunity to support an effort to radically change how we approach math education. But first, full disclosure: I sometimes take on freelance editing jobs, and I was the copy editor for this book. Therefore, I...
by Carol Cross | Jul 6, 2014 | Blog
From the “Spectacular Now” to the “Great Perhaps.” That is the arc that my YA reading has taken me, since I followed up Tim Tharp’s novel, The Spectacular Now, with John Green’s debut work, Looking for Alaska. As the key phrases might indicate, Looking for Alaska’s...
