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The Heroes of Olympus Book One: The Lost Hero
Rick Riordan introduces new demigod heroes in latest mythological adventure series. . . With another prophecy, more enemies, and three new demigods, author Rick Riordan is back and kicks off his new series, The Heroes of Olympus, with The Lost Hero.
August 13 is International Left-Handers Day! Who would have known there was an international holiday celebrating left-handed people all over the world? Only my clever editor at Scholastic of course. So if you aren't celebrating already, get ready for the festivities with this Famous Lefties Quiz. All the answers are the names of famous left-handed people.
This blog post is sponsored by Dolphin Tale.
True story: a dolphin named Winter got its tail caught in a crab trap. It survived but had to have its tail amputated. How can a dolphin swim without a tail? It can't. . . BUT it got a prosthetic tail and now Winter can swim fine! You can read about the story in a book called Winter's Tail, and coming in September, you can see the movie based on the story called Dolphin Tale.
If you love dolphins, we have a special surprise for you at the end of this blog post but first, here is Nathan Gamble, the 13-year-old star of the movie to talk about what it was like to make the movie.
Q: Tell me about your character in Dolphin Tale.
Continue reading "SPONSORED POST Interview a Dolphin Trainer!" »
Last week, I asked you awesome, intelligent, and creative people for your ideas for Writing Prompts, and you gave me . . . SHOCKER! . . . awesome, intelligent, and creative Writing Prompts, like a million of them! I love you guys. I really do. I promised I would use them all, and I will but it might take me a few months, or years, to include them all. Keep checking back because yours will definitely be here someday!
Ashi1 submitted these ideas:
"Well, I pretty much have silly ideas:- You could keep a quiz on your fave book. You can have a random 3 line poem thingy. You can give a caption yourself and tell us guyz to describe the situation like-If the caption's Kittens blah blah blah,then describe what they're doing."
I like the 3 line poem idea! OK I'll start the poem and you guys continue in the Comments.
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That moves and shifts like clay
When all at once, I saw a crowd
of amazing STACKERS who just made my day!
OK, so it's 4 lines and I stole some of it from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, but you get the picture. Yours will be much better than mine. Please add your lines to the poem in the Comments.
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