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Claudia Mills is the author of Nixie Ness, Cooking Star, 7 x 9 = Trouble!, Zero Tolerance, Write This Down, and many other books for children. She was born in New York City in 1954. She received her bachelor's degree from Wellesley College, her master's degree from Princeton University, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University. She also received an M.L.S. degree from the University of Maryland, with a concentration in children's literature. She had a second carer as a professor of philosophy at the Colorado at Boulder, until leaving that career in 2014 to write full time. She now teaches in the graduate program in children's literature at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. She has two sons, Christopher and Gregory, and one ...more

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	Zero Tolerance 3.79 avg rating — 1,265 ratings — published 2013 — 7 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
	How Oliver Olson Changed the World by Claudia Mills (Goodreads Author), Heather Maione (Illustrator) 3.73 avg rating — 744 ratings — published 2009 — 13 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
	Kelsey Green, Reading Queen 3.96 avg rating — 652 ratings — published 2012 — 11 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
	The Lost Language 4.12 avg rating — 457 ratings — published 2021 — 8 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
	Lizzie at Last 3.91 avg rating — 318 ratings — published 2000 — 10 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
	Write This Down 3.91 avg rating — 305 ratings — published 2016 — 4 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
	Annika Riz, Math Whiz (Franklin School Friends, 2) by Claudia Mills (Goodreads Author), Rob Shepperson (Illustrator) 3.86 avg rating — 257 ratings — published 2014 — 6 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
	7 x 9 = Trouble! by Claudia Mills (Goodreads Author), G. Brian Karas (Illustrator) 3.84 avg rating — 242 ratings — published 2002 — 17 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
	Being Teddy Roosevelt: A Boy, a President and a Plan by Claudia Mills (Goodreads Author), R.W. Alley (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.72 avg rating — 238 ratings — published 2007 — 9 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
	The Totally Made-up Civil War Diary of Amanda MacLeish 3.78 avg rating — 170 ratings — published 2008 — 5 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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Reunited (with Writing) and It Feels So Good!

Now that we are settled in the cottage (the cottage! the cottage! the cottage I love so much!), it was time to face The Rest of My Life. Which means: if I have this beautiful writing nook, I needed to start actually writing in it.

So, four days ago, on July 29, I actually did.

I slipped out of bed at 4:30 a.m. and crept up the stairs to the nook. I made myself a pot of tea in my Wedgewood teapo

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Franklin School Friends (5 books)
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West Creek Middle School (5 books)
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3.78 avg rating — 588 ratings

Math = Trouble! (2 books)
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G. Brian Karas

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Gus and Grandpa (10 books)
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Catherine Stock (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator)

3.60 avg rating — 333 ratings

After-School Superstars (4 books)
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Grace Zong (Illustrator)

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Author Rachel Funez gives her young protagonist Sonia an appropriately kid-sized disaster - forgetting her mom's birthday - and amusingly escalating sub-disasters as she scrambles to rustle up a last-minute breakfast-in-bed. Comic Illustrations by Ke ...more
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This delightful picture book shows young Rosa about to make her debut performing beside her mother in an all-female mariachi band. This Mexican style of music has historically been a male-dominated art form, but female mariachi players are now enrich ...more
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From the opening half-title page, showing a little girl and her mother eagerly hastening their way through a field of marigolds, the reader is invited to share in this celebration of the Mexican holiday of Día de Muertos. I wasn’t familiar with the t ...more
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Carol Coven Grannick is an extraordinarily talented poet who has crafted an exquisite novel in verse about an adolescent girl struggling simultaneously with shame over her changing body and an intense desire to express herself creatively through danc ...more
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How can Ellen O'Clover be such a brilliant writer???! She delivers it all here: believably painful and poignant family dynamics, a completely delicious slow-burn romance, a breathtaking OMG reveal at the climax, and wise reflections on letting go of ...more
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Based on the true story of animals who had lost their homes in the devastating fires of 2020 in Australia and then found shelter - and welcome - in wombat burrows, ACCIDENTAL HERO stars an utterly adorable, fictionalized wombat who played this role f ...more
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What do you do when the dream you've built your whole life around is shattered? This is the question protagonist Alina Keeler faces when a dancing accident injures her leg so badly that that the career, and life, she has dreamed of, and worked toward ...more
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Peggy-the-ghost (from O'Kane's previous title GHOST MOM) is back again in this delightful sequel, returned from the dead to help solve the mystery of the dead body found in her old house, now for sale. This title is as funny as the earlier book, with ...more
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“When you're in a family, it's not clear where one person's story begins and another person's story ends" -Autumn”
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“To Beverly Reingold, again and always, and this time to Abby Sider, too”
― Claudia Mills, You're a Brave Man, Julius Zimmerman

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“It’s amazing how just one thing said by just one person in the middle of just one conversation on just one regular day can start a person wondering things she had never wondered before.”
― Claudia Mills, The Lost Language

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