Welcome to the Read-A-Loud Revival. This is the show that helps your family fall in love with books, fall in love with homeschooling.

I'm your host Sarah Mackenzie and I am delighted today

to have a repeat guest on the show. Laura Martin is the author of some of my very

favorite page turners for books including The Edge of Extinction

series and Glitch, which is a time traveling book you will not be able to put down.

I ignored a lot of laundry while I read that book.

She's also the author of several other books. We're going to put them all on the show notes.

Hokes for Hire, Monster Missions, we're going to talk about them. Last time she came on the show, we were talking about

resistant readers. Kids who say, I don't like reading. How do you get them to start reading? In that first

interview I love when Laura told me that she would have like sixth grade boys come into her classroom saying they didn't like books and she was like took it as a challenge to make books they couldn't put down and she did it because so many of her books are page turner so anyway

Laura I am just absolutely delighted to have you back today. Thanks for coming on the

show. I'm so excited to be back. Yeah when I was here the last time I kind of had my teacher

shoes on because I was a seventh grade language arts teacher prior to being an author. But now I've

been an author longer than I was ever a teacher. So I feel like I get to come back and be like a writer now and talk about all the

writing things or before I don't know if it was imposter syndrome or I just only had one book out

so I was like I can't not a real writer yet I only have one book so I should talk about teacher stuff so I'm excited to come back and talk more about you know

raising kids who are creative and teaching writing and just my own writing journey which has been

really fun so far too and I do write books for that surly seventh grade boy in the back of

class who says I don't like reading and I wanted something they couldn't put down and so that's

kind of what has always been behind the way that I write books. I want unput downable books and I want just a really fun adventure because when I was a kid that's what I looked for in a book.

I looked for a book that would take me to somewhere cool and have a fun adventure, meet

new people, have adventures and all the things.

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