Susan Stoderl
- Feb 20
- 1 min
"Exploring Banned Books: Why Freedom to Read Week Matters"
Freedom to Read Week Yet Not Free to Read. Three banned classic books.
Susan Stoderl
- Sep 29, 2023
- 1 min
Middle-Grade Time Travel Book | Reading Chapter 12 of Mission 2: Unexpected Visitors
Two enslaved children set out on the Maritime Underground Railroad in 1832, but end up in New York City in 2019.
Susan Stoderl
- May 19, 2023
- 3 min
Writing Middle-Grade Fiction | Handling Tragic Subjects
For marketing reasons, I wrote a prequel to Mission 1: All in a Day’s Work, the first book in my Sophia of the Bright Read Sneakers...
Susan Stoderl
- Feb 28, 2023
- 1 min
A First Century Birthday Invitation | Claudia Severa to Sulpicia Cerialis
Sometime between the years 97-103 CE, Claudia Severa invited her sister Sulpicia Lepedina Cerialis to come to her birthday celebration on...
Susan Stoderl
- Jan 27, 2023
- 2 min
White Lady Ghost of Stow Lake—Another Fake!
“Sophia and Pedro, finish your tea and cookies. The tea house closes in fifteen minutes. Then we’ll go check out the Pioneer Mother...
Susan Stoderl
- Jul 6, 2022
- 2 min
Fanny Fern and the Cult of True Womanhood
"The Cult of Domesticity" or "True Womanhood," was established for the wives and daughters of the white American middle- and upper-class...