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Organized Teacher, Happy Classroom by Melanie S. Unger is free right now in the Kindle store as an ebook. If it interests you, you may want to grab it.

Voting for the Teens Top 10 Favorite Books through ALA opened today, and is open until Sept 15.

The Teens' Top Ten is a reading list chosen entirely by and for teens. The twenty-five official nominations were chosen by sixteen teen book groups from across the U.S. that participate in YALSA's YA Galley project, in which publishers provide book groups with galleys and the teens provide feedback. Last year, more than 8,000 teens voted for the Teens' Top Ten, choosing Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins as their favorite title.

Do you like movies? I love them. Like books, they can transport us to another world for a while (though books transport us for longer, and more deeply!), and they can bring good feeling.

I've listed my top 25 favorite movies. Do you like any of the same ones?

Someone told me they couldn't see my list of comics on the guest blog, so I'm reposting them here for those of you whose browsers aren't showing the list:

My Top 25 Favorite Movies:

(They all make me feel good in different ways, many of them giving me hope or something I need, just like my favorite books do.)

1) Cocoon & Cocoon the Return

2) Big

3) Frequency

4) What Women Want

5) The Associate

6) Working Girl

7) Tootsie

Erin Brokovich

9) Victor Victoria

10) GI Jane

11) Pretty Woman

12) Chocolat

13) Mrs. Doubtfire

14) Liar Liar

15) Sister Act I and II

16) Stranger Than Fiction

17) Bend It Like Beckham

18) Enough

19) Ghost

20) The Toy (Richard Pryor)

21) Escape to Witch Mountain (the original)

22) Mary Poppins

23) D.A.R.Y.L.

24) Flight of the Navigator

25) Sleepless In Seattle

Check out some of the books I turned to repeatedly as a teen, & why in this post as part of the Scars paperback blog tour.

Random House is going to publish some lost stories by Dr Seuss–stories that were published in Redbook in 1950-51 but never published in book form. How cool is that? We get to have more Dr Seuss books! (I love Dr Seuss books.)

Please join me in telling major corporations to stop funding anti-gay hate groups through CVN. It only takes a moment to sign the petition, and your voice can help make such a positive difference.

If you're interested, you can read an interview with me about SCARS being challenged, & me being a survivor, as part of the SCARS paperback blog tour. You can also enter to win a paperback copy of SCARS (scroll down to the bottom of the interview to enter).

This week you can download YA audiobooks Storm Runners by Roland Smith AND The Cay by Theodore Taylor (I love that book) for free–this week only. So if you want them, grab them now.

What have my scariest moments as an author been on the road of publication? And what about the most rewarding? Check out my guest post (for the SCARS paperback blog tour) for the answers.

Can you relate? What are your scariest moments on the road of or to publication?

Today on the SCARS book blog tour, you can check out the Top 10 Mediums that Kendra from SCARS (and I) like to use to create art.