Today was the first day of the brand new Thalia Book Club Camp teen session.  It was great to see some old friends and meet the newcomers.  We started off the morning decorating our journals, getting to know each other’s names and sharing our favorite books.  After a short discussion of what to expect at [...]

Is it really the second to last day already?! Today Linda Sue Park, author of Keeping Score and Newbery winner A Single Shard came to talk to us about her background, baseball, and writing in general.  We prepared for her visit by playing some theater games, including a partner game in which an established relationship [...]

Another amazing day at Camp! Today we met Polly Shulman, author of The Grimm Legacy, who took us to the New York Public Library and talked to us about  her process as a writer and led us in a few exercises related to her book. In the morning, we played a game involving grouping small [...]

Another fun day at camp! We started the day by reading a scene, in preparation of author George O’Connor’s visit, from his book Zeus: King of the Gods.  The scene was about how the Olympians came full-grown out of their father Kronos the Titan’s mouth. At 9:30, George O’Connor arrived and talked about his longstanding [...]