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Introducing Jon McGoran

5/17/2019

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  A little over a year and a half ago, I meet Jon McGoran at the KidLitCon 2017 in Hersey Pennsylvania.  I  can't believe it has been that long. i enjoyed meeting Jon and I loved hearing him talk about his book, Spliced. i knew that I had many students while I was teaching that would have loved this book. I have been meaning to feature Jon during one of my special author editions of Dr. Bickmore's YA Wednesday. Well, here it is at last. Thanks, Jon for waiting.

If you love books. I hope you get a chance to attend a KidLitCon event. They are fantastic. I meet several fantastic authors. A couple more will be featured on this blog eventually. Please be patient. I also meet Phil Bildner, who has connected me to even more authors and he will be one of the featured authors at the 2019 Summit on Teaching YA Literature at UNLV. See the link at the bottom of the page.

 Jon is one of the guys who writes in a variety genres. Jon also has a series of ecological thrillers written for the mainstream adult market. If you are true fan of the thriller, you should check out his website. You find descriptions of the rest of his books and short fiction as well. 
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Jon is relative new to the YA classification. As I mentioned I know students who will love Spliced and the good news for them is that the sequel, Splintered, is officially out this week (May 15, 2019). 

Science and YA literature provide an opportunity for those students interested in science, experiments, and general exploration to find something books that explore the things they are interested in fiction. Too often we seem to force them to read within genres that don't match their interests.

To capture their interests, you might have your students explore Jon's Splice Yourself Page.  There they can explore mixing species. They might even find an example of what they might look like mixed with their favorite animal.
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Interview Questions from John McGoran

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