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...
by Carol Cross | Jul 2, 2014 | Blog
I never read J.K. Rowling’s first post-Potter book, A Casual Vacancy, but I also haven’t heard very good things from the people I know who did read it. But when the new detective series author Robert Galbraith was revealed to be a nom de plume for...
by Carol Cross | Jul 1, 2014 | Blog
It may be hard to recognize, but the image above is pure literary gold. It is J.K. Rowling’s original hand-drawn spreadsheet for chapters 13-24 of the fifth book in her series, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Starting from the left, Rowling records...
