I have several hundred new subscribers over the last few days. I’ve no idea why. Until I figure out something intelligent to say about the English language, teen fiction, teaching, or Life in General, here are pictures of my jewelry workshop.
These awards are near and dear to my heart, as I co-founded the awards in 2004 and have been at least nominally involved ever since. The volunteer judges sift through more than a thousand entries a year to find the books for children and teens that meet our dual criteria:…
Dear Anne, age 14: Stop looking in the mirror. Just stop. News flash: You’re still flat-chested. There’s nothing there. Zip, zilch, nada. You’re 4’11”. You barely weigh 90 pounds. Strangers think you’re 10. Mom sneaks you into movies at the under-12 price. You eat off the kiddie menu in restaurants….
Welcome to YA Scavenger Hunt! I’m Anne Boles Levy, your host for this stage of your journey. At this hunt, you not only get access to exclusive content from each author, you also get a clue for the hunt. Add up the clues, and you can enter for our prize–one…
Folks! Starting Oct. 1, this blog will be participating in an extremely cool event known as the YA Scavenger Hunt. And, yes, there are prizes — copies of brand, spanking new YA novels from some of the participants. You’re going to need to spend some time digging through participating blogs–organized…
Thanks so much to Write All The Words for a chance to guest post on banned books: My parents never set any restrictions on what I could or couldn’t read. Anything in print was fair game, even the books on a musty basement shelf put deliberately a little out of…
My students treat grammar as an exotic species of butterfly to be frozen and pinned on the page. They can label the type of sentence and all the bits and pieces with studied precision, fretting the difference between verb or verbal, or degrees of adjective and adverb. Thirteen-year-olds shouldn’t know…
The night your dream comes true, everything should go according to plan. Your groomsman zooms your pumpkin coach along the carpool lane past traffic, and finds the site of the ball without GPS. The hipster clerk greets you warmly, and one of your besties is already there with her daughter….
Goodreads Book Giveaway The Temple of Doubt by Anne Boles Levy Giveaway ends August 10, 2015. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter Giveaway
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