Call to Adventure
Chapter 2: Trading a Walking Stick for an Awkward Situation After about an hour of traveling down the road and occasionally tugging on the leash to get the rooster to cooperate, you make it to Milkvale. Despite its [...]
Documentaries for Teens: Stolen Education
Hello again, friends, and welcome to Documentaries for Teens, where I review documentaries on Kanopy for you, the teen! Kanopy is a great source of movies, international works, shows, and of course, documentaries. (How many times is she going to say documentary? [...]
National Mushroom Month Craft
Well of course we have a month to celebrate the delightful, delectable, dear old mushroom. Mushrooms have been used perhaps most popularly in cooking, but also for their medicinal/healing properties throughout history. There is also quite a bit of myth and folklore [...]
Tween Comic Club Recommends 25
Tween Comic Club is a place for comic lovers ages 9-14 to discuss what they are reading each month. Here is the latest list of the books we’ve been talking about and that our tween readers recommend! Follow the links to check [...]
Celebrate National Hobbit Day!
September 22nd is National Hobbit Day, so make sure you plan to have a big breakfast or big second breakfast. First started by the American Tolkien Society in 1978, September 22nd celebrates the birthdays of Frodo and Bilbo Baggins. Here are some [...]
Call to Adventure
Chapter 1: Call to Adventure (and Losing Some Health Points Along the Way) You wake up one morning, the sun shining through your window. Your story begins in a little cottage in the countryside. You live a simple [...]
8 Great Young Adult Titles Set in Schools
It’s coming. You can’t stop it. It’s inevitable. Summer is going to end and school is going to start again. The return date is fast approaching and trying to stop it is futile. Some of you reading this will be excited by [...]
Flower Creations
With summer coming to a close, now is the time to preserve the bright colors to remind us of warmer days during the cold winter. So let’s discuss the methods of drying and displaying dried flowers and other plants. Below you will [...]
Nobody Understands Me! A Teen Angst Film Festival
As a teen, I remember when nobody understood me. I felt alone, unpopular, and never thought talking about it with anyone would help. My escape often came in the form of watching movies. But over the years, I discovered through movies that [...]
Tween Comic Club Recommends 24
Tween Comic Club is a place for comic lovers ages 9-14 to discuss what they are reading each month. Here is the latest list of the books we’ve been talking about and that our tween readers recommend! Follow the links to check [...]