‎"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
Steven Jobs, Stanford commencement address, 2005.

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Melissa Singleton Josef is an MLIS K-12 certified teacher librarian and author of The Suburban Barnyard as well as an environmental education resource blog called The Green Room. She is passionate about education and information literacy in all of its evolving formats as well as good old traditional love of reading. She is eclectic in her interests from science to art and graduated from the University of Delaware in 1991 with an undergraduate BAAS degree majoring in English/Business and Technical Writing and minoring in Fine Arts. She has traveled throughout Asia and the Pacific Islands, the Caribbean, and Europe and speaks both French and Japanese. She is currently in search of a full-time teaching position and spends her time writing novels, children's books, blogging, job searching, and substitute teaching PT in all teaching positions K-12.

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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Picture The Dead By Adele Griffin and Lisa Brown



I happened upon this little book just because I was in Children’s Book World the day before the authors were due in for a book signing. I read the book almost overnight and discovered a delightful little treat. Lovers of paranormal romance, ghost stories, graphic novels, and historical fiction can get all of that wrapped up in one with this little book. These two crafty women teamed up to create this novel about a young woman waiting for her love to return from the civil war only to find out he has died on the battlefield. His brother returns home and a mystery ensues. Clues unfold in pictures and within the story. It is a clever and fun read! very appropriate for early middle school and above.

http://www.picturethedead.com/




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