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Award Winning Author Shares Tips With Sixth Grade

During the summer, the sixth graders read the novel Anything But Typical by award-winning author, Nora Raleigh Baskin. For those students, Friday, September 27 was anything but typical, as they were treated to a writing workshop with Baskin, who shared her writing process and offered tips for budding writers in the group. In smaller sessions held throughout the day, Baskin encouraged the sixth graders to try their hand at writing the first line of their own stories and in doing so to consider: the point of view, setting, and the tone. Before the end of the workshop, the author herself put pen to paper and autographed copies of her books for her young admirers.