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MIDDLE GRADE FICTION: Mine Your Mind!

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Saltwater TaffyMIDDLE GRADE FICTION: Mine Your Mind!

Middle Grade Fiction is a term I use for the inability for a child’s mind to trick them into believing they are anything but AMAZING.  In Saltwater Taffy, we remind them they are indeed amazing.

There’s no other way to put it, so I will just come out and say it.  When you’re inside your middle grade fiction mind, everything begins and ends with your thoughts.  Thoughts can be like treasure maps, or thoughts by way of nightmares, fully realized.  It is up to you.  This is why it is so important to mine your mind for thoughts that make you happy.

This is the greatest discovery anyone can make, and if you can do it while you’re in middle school, the sky is the limit.  I mean, seriously, imagine that a single thought has the capacity to change your life.  Doesn’t that sound cool?

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MIDDLE GRADE FICTION: THE BIG GIVEAWAY

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Middle Grade FictionMIDDLE GRADE FICTION

Saltwater Taffy’s middle grade fiction book giveaway now underway!  I have 2500 books loaded into an RV and close to 400 miles to go.  Oh, and did I tell you that it’s 17 degrees every single morning in the south.

On the middle grade fiction adventure, I was able to hit 4 Boys & Girls Clubs…the Headquarters for Big Brother/Big Sister of Middle Tennessee…mailed 2 boxes to Harlem Children’s Zone and SEED of Washington D.C.…Tennessee School for the Deaf…3 area Middle Schools…a Children’s Hospital…and the United Way of Tennessee (who are going to feature the book as their Education Program in January)….you can say that I’m about to drop, but many lives have been touched.  Here are some photos from the road and the wonderful experience of giving.

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MIDDLE GRADE READING: Bad Habit Thinking

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Bad habit thinkingMIDDLE GRADE READING: Bad Habit Thinking

Bad habit thinking can become a bad habit that follows us into our adult lives.  If allowed, a single middle grade thought can trip…you…out.  During the formidable years of middle school, life is stuck on hyper-speed and everything seems to be a matter of life or death.  IT…IS…NOT.  Middle grade years have the ability of becoming some of the best years of our lives if we keep the mental playground free of limiting thought patterns, otherwise known as

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MIDDLE GRADE READING: The Fear of Failure

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Middle Grade ReadingMIDDLE GRADE READING: The Fear of Failure

Middle Grade Reading can be a starting point of how tweens can learn how to dream a bigger dream.  The problem facing most kids is they don’t think they can achieve their dream, which is why they live in fear most of the time.  

Living in fear of anything limits our ability to perform in the very thing we wish to succeed in.  Let’s say, for example, we are in middle school and we are afraid of failing the exam we are about to take even though we spent hours studying the required material.  When we sit down to take the exam, we go into a brain lock and forget…

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EVERYTHING I LEARNED ABOUT MYSELF: I Learned in Middle School

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middle schoolEverything I learned about myself: I learned in middle school.

Yes, that’s right, Middle School.  I know it sounds crazy, but it is SALTWATER TAFFY.  If you have ever been sick, injured or suffered through a battle of being super-duper bummed out (adults refer to this as being depressed), you know there’s nothing more important in life than feeling good.

The most precious thing we have in this middle school life is… Read more