Karla Manternach

Happy #BookBirthday to #TeamMeena! This is the fourth and final installment in my #MeenaZee series with @SimonKIDS. Order from anywhere books are sold! #MGLit #Kitlit #MGBookChat #Novel19s

@SandyBrehl Thank you, Sandy! Yes, it is just this long since I've logged into Twitter. (And yes, I refuse to call it anything else.)

Called @BalinBooks last week to order the first two books in the Meena series by @mskarlam for @viviankirkfield's #50PreciousWords literacy initiative. A chance to support #literacy #EpilepsyAwareness and a #Wisconsin author, all at once? I'll take it! ❤️📚

@THelixon @BalinBooks @viviankirkfield Thank you!

Non-native English Speakers, what’s a word from your language that you think is perfect that doesn’t have an English equivalent? Take us to church.

I would buy this!

@PatZMiller This year: new garage door, wisdom teeth removal, repairs on a 20-year-old van. Up next: radon mitigation. 🥳

Today is the day of spending lots of money on things that have to be done but do not bring joy.

@stacymcanulty ebay.com/itm/3640006353…

@stacymcanulty I got two hits with Google image search, but they don't agree:

OK TWITTER, what is this??? We’re going through my deceased BIL’s belongings and found this. No clue what it might be. (We think it might be from the time he was station Burundi.)

@maerespicio I love Bluefish by Pat Schmatz.

Hey #kidlit #MG Twitter—just curious & looking for some new reads—what are your favorite DUAL POV middle grade novels? (Bonus points if you share your favorite dual POV books that are contemporary #MGlit!) 🙏❤️

@HillaryHomzie Thanks, Hillary!

Happy book birthday to Team Meena! #kidlit #middlegrade

Just sold all my hair to buy a watch chain for my bf for Christmas. Can’t wait for him to open it! It’s going to be the best Christmas ever

@EssentialCoco Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen by @NikiRLenz

@NaomiJKrueger Reading together was an absolute joy in our house . . . until my second grader started bringing home tedious, badly-photocopied non-stories of read-aloud homework. I'll never forget the pained look she gave me at the end of one of those pointless readers.

@SketchesbyBoze Every time we watch it, we wail and gnash our teeth at that part. "Oh, my God, no, not the LIBRARY!"

funniest moment in It’s a Wonderful Life is when George says “what happened to Mary in the dark timeline where I don’t exist” and Clarence says “George, you really don’t—” and George says “TELL ME” and Clarence says “she’s SINGLE and RUNNING A LIBRARY”

@ErikaManternach @WriteNowCoach I don't suppose you have an MLA citation handy. 🙂

@mskarlam @WriteNowCoach I agree. Both names on first reference, then last name only. That's the journalistic standard unless there are two ppl with the same last name in the story. Calling him just Arthur would be disrespectful/overly familiar.

What say you, #WritingCommunity? This seems way off to me.

My teen's history lesson for the day: "Wait. . . To clean a CD player, do you use. . . a cleaning CD??"

@WriteNowCoach Exactly. If that's no longer standard practice, it's sure news to me. What say you @ErikaManternach?

@mskarlam That's not right. I'd introduce the dude (so readers who are not familiar know who he is) then refer to him by his last name.

@StorinoDana @ReadintheWoods Thank you! More great options here: readingmiddlegrade.com/tween-books-ab…