Louise Hopping

Our St. Michael's quiz bowl team is competing at the NAQT National Middle School Championship tournament in Chicago! Supporters can follow this brainy team here, match by match, SAT May 9: naqt.com/tournament/tea… We need 5 WINS to advance. #naqt #quizbowl #msnaqt #gogaels

How to Read Like a Child Again (gift article) "It is about recovering a way of moving through the world with a little more curiosity, a little less certainty, and a greater willingness to be surprised." #books #tweens #kidlit theatlantic.com/newsletters/20…

The STANDINGS board: naqt.com/stats/tourname…

And the quiz bowlers are almost... OFF! Here's where to keep up on teams, schedules, results, and those super-important STATS. Dawn start tomorrow. naqt.com/tournament/;js…

Finished 2-6, time to cut loose tomorrow in the consolation rounds and have some fun. (None of the Michigan teams made it into the finals this year.)

St. Michael A is 1-2 going into the break. Tough loss in the first round but closed the gap and then put up their first W. Nearly 200 teams competing in the NAQT Middle School National Championships! #naqt #quizbowl

Our St. Michael's quiz bowl team is competing at the NAQT National Middle School Championship tournament in Chicago! Supporters can follow this brainy team here, match by match, SAT May 9: naqt.com/tournament/tea… We need 5 WINS to advance. #naqt #quizbowl #msnaqt #gogaels

Proud to represent the B'ham area for the fourth year in a row at the quiz bowl finals...

Here's the NAQT Middle School Championship stat board, if you want to follow ALL the results. naqt.com/tournament/tea…

NAQT Middle School National Championship is May 8-10 in Chicago. #naqt #quizbowl naqt.com/msnct/2026/det…

St. Michael A places 5th at Michigan Middle School State Championships! Full results below, with powerhouse Emerson A taking first. The team is heading to nationals in May! This will be my last #quizbowl tourney. #gogaels naqt.com/stats/tourname…

Co-captain Philip Calabrese All-State Honorable Mention, Senior Joseph Harrison 2nd team All State, Co-captain Christian Curtis 2nd team All State. Senior leadership at its finest.

Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back. Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: nasa.gov/artemis-ii-mul…

What Bookstores Want From Traditional Publishers—and How the Bookstore Market Has Changed janefriedman.com/what-bookstore… via @janefriedman

The color of wonder and the chemical code of creation themarginalian.org/2026/02/19/tra…

When the Oxford children's dictionary discarded dozens of nature-words—"dandelion," "fern," "starling"—as irrelevant to children's imagination and replaced them with words like "broadband" and "cut-and-paste," this inspired act of resistance was born: themarginalian.org/2019/06/17/the…

Blessed Angela Middle School quiz bowl tournament results (Feb 7, 2026) are posted! Ann Arbor's Emerson A, undefeated powerhouse team, takes first. (I've retired as head coach but still help out as a volunteer.) #naqt #msnaqt #quizbowl naqt.com/stats/tourname…

Teachers and Librarians! Do you have materials for the 25th Anniversary of 9/11?

Community Pick in honor of the trailblazing Grace Hopper's birthday: Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code, Laurie Wallmark. Filled with detailed illustrations by artist Katy Wu, this is the inspiring story how Hopper revolutionized computer science 5-9 amightygirl.com/hopper-queen-o…

Pick of the Day: Iceberg, Jennifer A. Nielsen. A suspenseful thriller, told through the eyes of observant 12-year-old would-be journalist Hazel, that's packed with the best and the worst of the story of Titanic, the Ship of Dreams. 10+ amightygirl.com/iceberg

I mean, a PRINT version in a magazine! I co-wrote 14 print-and-play game/activity books for Scholastic, two with my history/social studies teacher and sister @HoppingReads. Those games dealt with: child labor, immigrants, Civil War, Progressive Era, tyranny, more.