As promised last week, here is the follow-up interview with Bonnie Doerr, author of three eco-novels for middle grade students. CAROL: When you wrote Island Sting, did you have any idea that there would be two more books? BONNIE: Island Sting is a rework of Kenzie’s Key. The publisher of Kenzie's Key went out of… Continue reading Bonnie Doerr: On Book Series, School Visits, and Story Lines
Bonnie Doerr has done it again. Continuing the adventures of Kenzie of Island Sting fame, Doerr presents Stake Out (Leap Press, 2011) her second eco-mystery to take place in the Florida Keys. In the first book Kenzie helped to rescue the miniature Key deer. In this sequel, another great middle school novel for boys and girls, Kenzie… Continue reading Stake Out–Giveaway!
I discovered Freak the Mighty (Blue Sky Press, 1993) and The Reinvention of Edison Thomas (Front Street Books/Boyds Mills Press, 2010) when I was preparing for recent workshops at NCRA. Both books feature strong boy protagonists and include science and math elements. Conventional writing wisdom is that the first few lines of a story should grab the reader.… Continue reading Two Boy Geniuses & One Book Giveaway
What better way to hook your readers than have your main character almost drown as she rescues an endangered Key deer and is fished out by a cute guy--all in the first 10 pages of your book? Those are the ingredients that author Bonnie Doerr uses to keep 5th-8th grade readers from putting down this… Continue reading Island Sting
What better way to hook your readers than have your main character almost drown as she rescues an endangered Key deer and is fished out by a cute guy--all in the first 10 pages of your book? Those are the ingredients that author Bonnie Doerr uses to keep 5th-8th grade girl readers from putting down… Continue reading Island Sting