Loranger Middle School

I spent Tuesday in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, visiting with students at Loranager Middle School. Talk about a warm welcome …

Many thanks to Ali, Emily, and all their classmates who worked on these welcome signs; they are still making me smile. And I want to send a special “YOU ROCK!” message to Karly, who dressed up in a trash bag dress and a milk carton hat to bring attention to my visit and the subject of my book.

I took this next photo in the LMS school library, where students were reading and rating books nominated for this year’s Maine Student Book Award:

Can you see all those stickers under Jeff Kinney’s DIARY OF A WIMPY KID? That means the Loranger students dig that book. They also dig Linda Urban’s A CROOKED KIND OF PERFECT. (Who can blame them on either count?) TRACKING TRASH had four stickers, which may not seem a lot, but they meant the world to me. Blue dots mean the student in question thought the book in question was “the best ever”. If there are truly four students in the world who think that about TRACKING TRASH, well, then I am a happy girl.

Many thanks to the students and faculty at Loranger Middle School. My day with you was warm and bright, despite the remnants of winter swirling outside. Happy reading and thank you all!