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Movies, History, and Books for Kids

By Melissa Luttmann
Don’t you just love the movie Gone with the Wind? The beautiful costumes, the intriguing heroine, the quotable lines…it’s a great work of fiction. And I wish that more people would take notice of those last three words: work of fiction. Gone with the Wind is a delightful movie, but not every detail [...]

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A Bright Spot for YA Historical Fiction

By Melissa Luttmann
Sometimes the future of YA historical fiction looks pretty grim, but this blog post gave me a lot of hope for the genre.
The author, a YA novelist/teacher, asked her students what sorts of books they do and don’t like, and what they’d like to see more of. Based on what’s currently selling in [...]

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