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BYWAYS: Illustrations
Every one of the Byways Books includes beautiful full-color art by my illustrator, Hannah Christenson. Here’s a sampling from Book #7, Across the Line: A Ganix Johns Adventure.

BYWAYS: Zane Johns

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BYWAYS: Series Birthday
Celebrating Independence Day here in America … and the fact that the Byways Books were born on the 4th of July. Book #1, On Your Marks: The Adventure Begins has its book birthday today!

Have you read any of this award-winning series? Book #12 releases later this month!


That’s the way, sprat. The more you look, the more you’ll find; the more you ask, the more answers you’ll receive. If you don’t stretch your boundaries, your world will remain quite small.”
—MEADOWSWEET by C. J. Milbrandt
ART: The Statuary

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#amreading Challenge
2017 Reading Challenge. One of the fun features on GoodReads is their annual reading challenge. You can set a goal for how many books you want to read during the year, and they’ll help you track your progress. Over the weekend, I hit the goal I’d set for myself—30 books. So I went ahead and adjusted my goal for 2017. I’m now working toward 50 books for the year. Here are three (great!) titles I read in June.

In addition, I joined a GoodReads group—Great Middle Grade Reads. Members can take part in their annual A-Z Challenge by Continue reading #amreading Challenge