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Body Language in Middle Grade Lit
By Sarai Walker
STARFISH
By Alyson Gerber
When I was a middle school student in the 1980s, a girl in my class presented a book report on Judy Blume’s “Blubber.” As the only fat kid in my class, I wouldn’t have been caught dead reading a book with that title. Yet that day I had to sit and listen to my classmate discuss the torment of poor Linda, the chubby girl terrorized by the rest of her fifth-grade class. Not surprisingly, Linda begins dieting in a desperate bid to make the bullying stop.
How to Write Middle Grade Fiction That Is Compelling And Compassionate
All writers need to know their audience, and that s especially true for middle grade fiction. In this post, author Alyson Gerber offers up tips for writers on how to write middle grade fiction that is compelling AND compassionate.
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Jun 3, 2021
Growing up, I thought I was too loud, too much, not smart enough, or good enough to matter. By the time I was seven, my undiagnosed ADHD was wreaking havoc on every part of my life. From 11 to 13, I was also trapped in a back brace 23 hours a day, seven days a week to treat my scoliosis. It felt like I was taking up too much space in the world, and food started to take up all the space in my mind.
Braced and
Focused published by Scholastic. Her third novel
Taking Up Space is now in stores. She has an MFA from The New School in Writing for Children and lives in New York City with her family. Visit her at alysongerber.com and find her everywhere else @alysongerber.
Paper linking frequency of Google search terms to violence against women retracted
The findings were, to say the least, shocking: A researcher in New Zealand claimed that Google searches about violence against women soared during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic raising the prospect that quarantines were leading to a surge in intimate partner violence and similar crimes.
Shocking, yes, but now retracted because the methodology of the study was “catastrophically wrong,” in words of some critics.
The paper, “COVID-19, suicide, and femicide: Rapid Research using Google search phrases,” was written by Katerina Standish, of the University of Otago’s National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies and appeared online in January 2021 in the