road trips

Newbery Roundup 2: Mexikid, The Swifts, and Shira and Esther’s Double-Dream Debut

By Janie Cheaney | Jan 16, 2024
This is second of our roundup series of possible Newbery contenders for 2024. See the first roundup here. Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir by Pedro Martin. ...
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Let’s Take a Road Trip: Our Final Destination

By Janie Cheaney | Jun 14, 2013
Before I started writing The Middle of Somewhere, I did some research.  Every novelist has to do some research, especially if she’s writing historical fiction ...
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Let’s Take a Road Trip (and the Second Key to Great Writing)

By Janie Cheaney | Jun 13, 2013
(He likes the book so far, and but he hasn't got to the tragic part yet.) How’s the road trip going?  Have we arrived in ...
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