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Advice on Writing by C.S. Lewis!

My goal is for students to see themselves as writers.

Here is some advice from C.S. Lewis that should inspire students to see writing in a new light.

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History lives here. Humanity lives here.

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There’s a proven correlation between school libraries and student achievement.

Studies have shown a 20% better performance when students have access to a well-stocked and managed library! (SLJ)

“Why do I have to learn this?” is a common question with math classes

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I haven’t factored a polynomial in years, but I have had to solve lots of problems.

Jen Fournier

One of our favorite things to do is see kiddos graduate 🧑‍🎓! Many students choose to graduate in December. Congrats Jax! So excited for your future in the military. You will make our country proud 🇺🇸 and do great things in your future.

One of our favorite things to do is see kiddos graduate 🧑‍🎓! Many students choose to graduate in December. Congrats Jax! So excited for your future in the military. You will make our country proud 🇺🇸 and do great things in your future.

Francine Pascal -- the creator of the best-selling "Sweet Valley High" book series -- was one of the Mighty Girl role models who died in 2024. After its debut in 1983, the series went on to become a massive success with over 200 million copies of the 181 books in the series sold. The series -- which follows the lives of Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield, identical twins attending high school in Sweet Valley, a fictional Los Angeles suburb -- was so popular that in January 1986, 18 out of the top 20 books in the young adult market were "Sweet Valley High" titles. The success of the series revolutionized young adult publishing; as Pascal observed at the time, "there are millions of teenagers that no one in publishing knew existed."

Born in New York City in 1932, Pascal studied journalist at New York University and became a freelance magazine writer. Along with her husband, John Pascal, she first became more widely known as a writer for the 1960s soap opera "The Young Marrieds." She wrote her first young adult novels in the late 1970s, starting with "Hangin' Out With Cici." She was inspired to write the first "Sweet Valley High" book after having lunch with an editor friend who wondered why there was no teenage version of "Dallas," the massive television hit. Pascal later recounted that she immediately drafted a detailed sketch of the first book and sold that title, along with her first 12 books, to Bantam Books.

When some literary reviewers criticized the books, which were often filled with high school drama related to friends, boys, and the cheerleading squad, Pascal, who died in July at the age of has died at the age of 92, responded: "These books have uncovered a whole population of young girls who were never reading. I don’t know that they’re all going to go on to ‘War and Peace,’ but we have created readers out of nonreaders. If they go on to Harlequin romances, so what? They’re going to read.”

All of the books in the "Sweet Valley High" series are available online at https://amzn.to/3WuJgTF

There is also a recent graphic novel adaptation which follows the twins in middle school; it begins with "Sweet Valley Twins: Best Friends" at https://amzn.to/4d427MG

For books to help Mighty Girls navigate the increasingly complex world of middle and high school, visit our blog post, “50 Guides For Mighty Girls in Middle & High School,” at https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=12739