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...
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
- Sep 26, 2023
- 2 min
Illiteracy, Crime, Welfare, and Poverty Go Hand in Hand
Fourth grade is the turning point for achieving literacy in a child’s life. If a child is not reading at a fourth-grade level while in...
Susan Stoderl
- Sep 22, 2023
- 2 min
Magical Realism Enlightens Middle-Grade Book Series, Sophia of the Bright Red Sneakers
During my book launch on September 12, my co-host Jess Kotzer asked me what drew me to the magical realism genre. In magical realism,...