The idea there were kids out there who didn't love to read and write just as much as I did struck me. So I went around schools and tried to make other kids love to read and write.
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The unsaid message of that endless rack of juniors' pushup bras? No matter what size you are, it still isn't good enough.
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I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older.
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My parents homeschooled my sister and me for many years. Why? Because the local school insisted that I, being three, should go to preschool, and my sister, being five, should go to kindergarten. The problem? You learn your alphabet in preschool, and I was already reading chapter books.
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Hoping to instill my love of learning in other children, I taught my first class at a local elementary school the year my first book, 'Flying Fingers,' debuted; since then, I have spoken at hundreds of schools, classrooms and conferences around the world.
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It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.
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Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children that you can read for fun, too, and to understand human spirit. It builds empathy.
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As children, we have a tenuous idea of love; we often try to quantify it with how much we feel seen and heard.
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The point of my work is to make it clear that all youth can make 'big miracles' happen.
