Students

I became an avid reader around age eight. Each summer, my mom took me to the Athens Regional Library where I signed up for the summer book club. I still remember my favorite book club summer when I read 50 books and got an award. The theme that year was Johnny Appleseed. Our big end-of-the-summer party was at a theater downtown, one of the few air conditioned places of my childhood.

Tip: Visit your local library and sign up for the summer book club. Read as many books as you can. You might win a prize and you’ll certainly improve your grades when you go back to school at the end of the summer. If it’s not summer when you read this tip, go to the library anyway. Browse the shelves of the children’s department and ask the librarian for book recommendations. Every day of the year should be a reading day for you. Reading does not have a season.

My favorite book from childhood was THE WIZARD OF OZ. Click on the title to read more about this famous book. If you haven’t read this book yet, I highly recommend it. You can find it at your local library.

Did you know that the boy on the cover of Gone From These Woods is a real boy named Luke Kitson? Read more about Luke and the GFTW cover.

Tip: If you're writing a report or a paper about Gone From These Woods and/or the author Donny Bailey Seagraves, you can read more about my early days here.

Tip: Check out my Group Discussion questions for Gone From These Woods.


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All contents copyright 2008 - 2011 by Donny Bailey Seagraves and are not to be reused electronically or in print without permission of author. Author photos by Lorin Sinn-Clark. Bookcover copyright 2009 by Blake Morrow. Questions? Comments? Email.