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Melanie Weiss is author of two Young Adult novels, Crossing Lines and Spoken, which received a 2019 Readers' Favorite Book Award for Young Adult -Social Issues. In December 2020, she published the illustrated middle grade book, Oliver's Birthday and the Robin's Nest.

She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and worked as a journalist for newspapers and magazines for 20 years. She began writing her novel, Spoken, shortly after her younger child left for college in 2015 and she became an “empty nester.” She currently manages a scholarship foundation at her local high school that provides scholarship support to more than 60 graduating high school seniors each year. ...more

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	Oliver's Birthday and the Robin's Nest by Melanie Weiss (Goodreads Author), Allen Groner (Illustrator) 4.69 avg rating — 13 ratings — 3 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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THE SIX-WORD STORY IN THE CLASSROOM: BRILLIANT!

Flash fiction is a genre of fiction that involves telling a story using between 5 and 1,500 words. Today, we are going to focus on the smaller side of that scale:

Flat tire.
New Job.
No Job?

This may be just six short words but in the right combination it says everything you need to know. Writing a six-word story can be fun for every age and makes an excellent creative writing assignment that encourag Read more of this blog post »

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Published on October 01, 2020 08:35 • Tags: creative-writing, poetry, poetry-month, six-word-story, spoken-word, teacher-classroom-project

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Modern Love: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption

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The Feather Detective: Mystery, Mayhem, and the Magnificent Life of Roxie Laybourne

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“When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.”
― Lily Tomlin

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“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“Goals are your destinations in life; objectives are the stops along the way.”
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“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

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