I kind of disappeared yesterday.
People often ask me what my "favorite" book is, among those I've written. I really don't have "favorites" of anything.
Well. Except for my children.
Just kidding.
I do have a special kind of connection to all the books I've written. My first book, Ghost Medicine is kind of about disappearing.
I think it's a really good book, too.
Apparently, so do some of the people at Seneca Valley Intermediate High School in Harmony, Pennsylvania. They got 150 copies of Ghost Medicine to use in their 9th grade English classes.
Now I want to go to that school. Next time I'm in PA... I am so going to be there.
That is a really cool thing.
Today is Saint Patrick's Day.
I have been to Ireland. I brought my kids there last year. It was really cool.
I mention this because Saint Patrick's Day actually occurs in my forthcoming novel, Stick. Something transformational happens to a couple of the characters on that day, as a matter of fact. And the boys in the book do happen to be Irish-American, too.
It would be a really good book for a high school English class, too.
Happy non-disappearing Saint Patrick's Day.
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I wish our teachers/school would open their eyes to the fact there are other (great) books out there but then that would mean they would have to step out of the box and teach instead of sitting on their asses making copies of stuff they've been using for the last few years (yeah, I can complain, I work with these people). opps sorry.
Andrew, that's awesome for you and those kids and how lucky for them when you get to visit.
Ghost Medicine will be the first book of yours I'll let Chase read but in a year or two.
PS how was your day off, sweet huh!
Happy Saint Patrick's day to you too Andrew. That's great news about Ghost Medicine, I wish more schools would teach using great books like that.
I don't get to read stuff like that at school. I get "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Hamlet" and all those other works. I think probably the most 'modern' book on the reading list would be "The Kite Runner"... I want to go to Pennsylvania.
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