By: Alissa Lauzon,
on 5/4/2008
Ryan began to get fat in fifth grade after her brother was diagnosed with lukemia and has been a fat girl ever since. Seven years later, 5'1" Ryan weighs in at 206 pounds and is completely obsessed with her weight. She measures everything- every relationship, every goal- by how much her fat interferes. Ryan's life is far from where she wants it to be, her BFFF (best fat friends forever) is in
By: Alissa Lauzon,
on 1/21/2008
Kaitlyn's mother has recently begun writing a sex advice column for a local newspaper and Kaitlyn is modified and wonders why her mom can't have a low key job like her father, an undercover FBI agent. Kaitlyn's life changes when her father brings his work home with him in the form of seventeen-year-old Blaine, who is part of the Witness Protection Program. Suddenly Kaitlyn finds herself having
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By: Mark,
on 5/27/2007
Imagine drawing while having books read to you. There are no expectations of what you draw, just the freedom to do so. It’s really not such a crazy idea, and yet for so many children, the expectation is that they will sit still and be read to.
Mark speaks with illustrator Alice Priestley on drawing while being read to by her father — still to this day — getting the rhythm of language into your bones and understanding a story and its characters in order to illustrate books.
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Hi there.
I’m tagging you for a meme, http://mentortexts.blogspot.com/2007/05/8-things-meme.html.
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