The Koolura Series: How a YA Series is Born and Evolve
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The Koolura Series: How a YA Series is Born and Evolve

When my oldest daughter was in sixth grade, I began writing the Koolura series. I was a reading specialist in Glendale, California working in a year-round school. During my off-time, I wrote.  Channie hated to read. As a reading specialist, this was tantamount to revolution. Instead of arguing, I asked, “If I wrote a book with…

Orphaned Book Sale
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Orphaned Book Sale

Orphaned books at a great price available during the Coronavirus Pandemic. This is a great way to encourage your children to read.

Revenge of the Spiders: An Excellent Sequel
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Revenge of the Spiders: An Excellent Sequel

Revenge of the Spiders is book 2 in Rod Little’s four book series, Sons of Neptune. In book one, Earthweeds, the novel’s two protagonist brothers, Shane and Sam, return from a mountain hunting trip to find their home has been invaded by large man-eating lizards created by the Sayans, an alien race of humanoids. The young…

Growing up Deaf
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Growing up Deaf

Audiologists acknowledge four levels of deafness—mild, moderate, severe, and profound. Author Cece Bell is severely to profoundly deaf. At the age of four she contracted meningitis, robbing her of most of her hearing. When she started public school, Cece was mainstreamed into a regular classroom. She knew she was different from the other kids due…

The Koolura Series: YA Fantasy at It’s Best
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The Koolura Series: YA Fantasy at It’s Best

      Twenty-four years ago author Michael Thal began what would become The Koolura Series. His prime motivation at the time was to get his daughter Channie excited about reading. Then in the sixth grade, she promised to read the book upon its publication. Good for her word, even though she was twenty-eight years…