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Writing About Sexual Harassment for Middle Grade Readers, a guest post by Catherine Arguelles

September 8, 2022 by admin

Cover art by Carl Pearce In 2016, as #MeToo trended and stories of sexual harassment rose in the media, I came across this study examining sexual harassment in middle schools. While I certainly remembered incidents of catcalls and inappropriate behavior in middle school, it alarmed me to read that nearly half of the middle schoolers … Read more

Never Too Much, a guest post by Catherine Bakewell

May 6, 2022 by admin

When I was in middle school, the word “nerd” was thrown around a lot, a word that then meant someone who was too much, who loved something too deeply. It was also a word that described me very well–a girl who enjoyed her hobbies with an abandon that was considered by other students to be … Read more