<p>This book is a must-read for parents new to homeschooling and college students new to online learning.</p>

<p>The challenge: 105,000 spoken words. 110 unique voices. Can I pull it off?</p>

<p>No library? No problem. I&#8217;m quarrying my own bookshelves for the choicest chops.</p>

<p>So what if the public library is closed due to COVID-19? I can quarry my bookshelves at home for some really solid quarryntine reading.</p>

<p>Another book quarried from my bookshelves while sheltering at home makes the essential &#8220;quarryntine reading list.&#8221;</p>

<p>Advice from a trucker drove me to do something crazy, risky, and rewarding.</p>

<p>Books quarried from my own bookshelves build a stable &#8220;quarryntine reading list.&#8221;</p>

<p>Among travel books, what makes a masterpiece? Sure, we love the writer who describes a location or culture in stunning, heart-flipping prose. But what debt of thanks and praise do we owe the yarner who completely transports us to places we will never ever get to visit in our lifetime? Take, for instance, outer space…&hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://jynnemason.com/2020/02/27/imagined-life-by-trefil-summers/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Imagi

<p>The request came late November. A children&#8217;s book packager reached out asking if I had to time outline, right, and research 6 nonfiction books. Oh, and by the by, could I get those done in 6 weeks? It was grueling work. I rose around 5am every morning. I worked until my various day jobs required&hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://jynnemason.com/2020/02/20/write-like-you-run/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Write Like You&nbsp;Run</span></a>

<p>“It must have been my lucky day,” Lakpa Sherpa says, encapsulating the miracle his family performed to secure his exit from Nepal during its recent, bloody civil war. Beginning in the mid-1990s, a Maoist communist insurgency faction fought to topple Nepal’s 240-year-old monarchy. Most members of the royal family were massacred and the ensuing decade-long&hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://jynnemason.com/2019/11/14/lakpas-lucky-day/">Continue reading <span class="sc

<p>I’d love to recommend this book to all the world&#8217;s would-be Greta Thunbergs and passionate climate change fighters; however, I’ll most likely recommend it to writing coaches who are passionate about fighting writing change. </p>

<p>Repeat after me: W is for wren. M is for mnemonic. D is for Djibouti. This book is the worst alphabet book EVER&#8230;and it&#8217;s proud of it! Haldar, Raj and Chris Carpenter. P is for Pterodactyl: The Worst Alphabet Book Ever. Illus. Maria Tina Beddia. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, 2018. Print. Genre: picture book (ABC)&hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://jynnemason.com/2019/10/02/p-is-for-pterodactyl/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text

<p>Language. It&#8217;s as slippery and fluid as gender. And some of us need poetry to grasp that. Charles, Jos. feeld. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2018. Print. Genre: poetry Summary: Jos Charles, trans editor and poet, recipient of the Poetry Foundation&#8217;s 2016 Ruth Lily &amp; Dorothy Sargent Rosenburg Fellowship, crafts poetry in Chaucer&#8217;s English to simulate&hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://jynnemason.com/2019/09/11/feeld-by-jos-charles/">Conti

<p>This Saturday, July 20, 2019 marks the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. The feat cemented humankind&#8217;s toehold on the final frontier&#8217;s doorstep. In the coming year, engineers and scientists are poised to establish a permanently inhabited base on the lunar surface. From this launch pad, cosmic explorers and entrepreneurs hope to dive&hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://jynnemason.com/2019/07/16/beyawned-earth-pillownauts-by-jennifer-mason/">

<p>I am so pleased to announce that Mountain Flyer&#8216;s Issue No. 61 features my in-depth profile on the teens whose lives have cycled from average to amazing thanks to mountain biking. &#8220;Choose Your Challenge: Durango Devo&#8217;s Winning Formula&#8221; trails a wildly popular local 501c3 organization in my community that gets young people ell beyond their&hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://jynnemason.com/2019/06/20/choose-your-challenge-by-jennifer-mason/">C

<p>When taught to love this Earth like a geologist, we appreciate and crave even the smell of rocks. Glassley, William. A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice. New York: Bellevue Literary Press, 2018. Print. Genre: narrative nonfiction Summary: Two geologist colleagues invite Glassley on a return visit to&hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://jynnemason.com/2019/06/12/a-wilder-time-by-william-glassley/">Continue reading <span class="screen

<p>A pervasive color, temporal slip n’ slides, hop-scotching graphics, one voice to rule them all—everything you’ve ever loved in a Samuel Beckett play now in a graphic novel memoir! Bui, Thi. The Best We Could Do. New York: Abrams ComicArts, 2017. Print. Genre: graphic novel memoir Summary: A graduate school assignment turns into a decades-long&hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://jynnemason.com/2019/03/13/the-best-we-could-do/">Continue reading <span class="screen-rea

<p>Cheating thuds from this book&#8217;s heart. A father and son must confront the question: what exactly counts as cheating on work projects or school assignments? And, how much are they cheating themselves by not facing their fears, which are really their sorrows? Oppel, Kenneth. Inkling. Illus. Sydney Smith. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. Print.&hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://jynnemason.com/2019/03/06/inkling/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text

<p>In this delightful, subversive novel, Voigt gives young readers everything they usually aren&#8217;t supposed to get: strangers, dangers, and unanswered questions. Voigt, Cynthia. Young Fredle. Illus. Louise Yates. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. Print. Genre: middle grade Summary: Separated from his home and family in the walls of the house, Fredle the young mouse&hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://jynnemason.com/2019/02/27/young-fredle/">Continue reading <span c

<p>How hard could it be to teach yourself to build and program a robotic arm that receives instructions from your thoughts? If you&#8217;re a bored sixteen-year-old like Easton LaChappelle, the answer is: sorta not hard at all. Easton grew up rather isolated in Colorado&#8217;s Four Corners region&#8211;down the road from where I live now. All&hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://jynnemason.com/2019/02/20/the-limber-inventor-by-jennifer-mason/">Continue reading <span cl