Guest Post: Laurie Morrison on Creating Balanced, Flexible Teacher Guides for Her Books

Photo Credit: Laura Billingham

By Laurie Morrison

Before my first middle-grade novel with Cordelia Jensen, Every Shiny Thing (Amulet, 2018), was published, I taught middle school for ten years, and those two identities—author and teacher—still feel intertwined. I’d never tried to write fiction until I became a teacher and got inspired by my students and the books I read alongside them. And as I was reading widely to find stories my students would connect with, I was also practicing my own craf...