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October 27, 2024 by Travis Jonker

Gayle Forman Visits The Yarn!

October 27, 2024 by Travis Jonker   Leave a Comment

Travis: Not Nothing is one of the best-reviewed middle grade novels of 2024. In today’s episode, author Gayle Forman takes us behind the scenes of how it was made.

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About Travis Jonker

Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.

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