Susan Stoderl
- Oct 27, 2023
- 3 min
Indie Writer's Life | Unpublished Murder Mystery | Eleven Days in the Death
PROLOGUE Tuesday Morning, August 2, 1932 The Conway house sat back from Nobb Street on the crescent of the town’s only hill. Once plain,...
Susan Stoderl
- Oct 26, 2023
- 3 min
Writer's Life | A Sneak Peek into Future Writing | Fantasy, Time Travel, Young Adult
The Letter - July 18, 2021 Ewan McShannon, a thirty-year-old poet, writer, and storyteller, still lived in his deceased parents’...
Susan Stoderl
- Oct 19, 2023
- 1 min
A Reading from Middle-Grade Book, Sophia Meets Pedro, Prequel to Mission 1: All in a Day's Work
In this middle-grade book, Sophia and Pedro learn about empathy, compassion, justice, and understanding. #middlegradebooks,...
Susan Stoderl
- Oct 17, 2023
- 2 min
The Pros and Cons of Standardized Testing and Child Literacy | Part 2
PRO 2: Standardized testing offers meaningful data to help students in marginalized groups. Standardized tests can show if a child is on...
Susan Stoderl
- Oct 13, 2023
- 1 min
From Beyond the Books Podcast, Vol. 3 of Sophia of the Bright Red Sneakers Series is Conceived
During this week's Beyond the Books Podcast, I interviewed Jan Burl, about having to recapture her literacy one letter at a time after a...
Susan Stoderl
- Oct 6, 2023
- 2 min
Book Ban Week | A Classic Still Banned in Some Places, Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms.
Since 1929, the authorities have heavily censored and/or banned A Farewell to Arms, the story of WWI on the Italian front. Across the...
Susan Stoderl
- Oct 3, 2023
- 2 min
Banning Books | An Attack on Child and Adult Literacy
A small embittered minority is attacking K-12 school libraries and public libraries. They attack and ban teaching that does not agree...
