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Tom Durwood

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Tom Durwood is a teacher, writer and editor with an interest in history. Tom most recently taught English Composition and Empire and Literature at Valley Forge Military College, where he won the Teacher of the Year Award five times.

Early reader response to Tom’s historical fiction adventures has been promising. “A true pleasure … the richness of the layers of Tom’s novel is compelling,” writes Fatima Sharrafedine in her foreword to “The Illustrated Boatman’s Daughter.”

The Midwest Book Review calls that same adventure “uniformly gripping and educational … pairing action and adventure with social issues.” Adds Prairie Review, “A deeply intriguing, ambitious historical fiction series.”

Tom earned a Masters in English Literature in San Diego, w ...more

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Fordlandia: A Favorite Lesson Plan

My students love this little-known story. It was easy to get them to write 300 words on “What went wrong in Fordlandia?”

You can find several accounts online, one by The Guardian and a second by a writer named Morgan Dunn. Here is how his starts:

Fordlândia: Henry Ford’s Forgotten Rubber Empire Deep in the Heart of the Amazon

By Morgan Dunn
Published June 24, 2020

In 1928, Henry Ford broke ground on Fo Read more of this blog post »

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	The Adventures of Ruby Pi and the Geometry Girls (Ruby Pi Adventure Series) by Tom Durwood (Goodreads Author), Sandra Uve (Foreword), Mai Nguyễn (Illustrator) 3.86 avg rating — 43 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kid Lit: An Introduction to Literary Criticism by Tom Durwood (Goodreads Author), Kara Colley, Ali Raza 4.17 avg rating — 35 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Illustrated Boatman's Daughter 3.87 avg rating — 31 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Adventures of Rubi Pi and the Aviation Girls: History of Flight in Stories 4.58 avg rating — 24 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Adventures of Ruby Pi and the Math Girls (Ruby Pi Adventure Series) by Tom Durwood (Goodreads Author), Sandra Uve (Foreword), Mai Nguyễn (Illustrator) 3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pact (The Illustrated Colonials Book 1) 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Adventures of Ruby Pi and the Aviation Girls 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Illustrated Ulysses S. Grant in China and Other Stories 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saratoga (The Illustrated Colonials, #3) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Ruby Pi Adventure Series (2 books)
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“As time crawled on, Daniel became mesmerized. He gazed at the planes of Rupa’s face, the texture of her skin, the forelock of hair that fell over one of her eyes.”
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“How did you know?” he called to Isoke. “What gave them away?”
She wiped her blade on the fabric of her skirt.
“Geometry,” the border girl replied.”
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“It’s just us,” said Simone. “Either we stop this thing, or everybody dies.”
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