The Paw Print

by Ashlyn, Reporter

Ms. Ziegler, author of How Not To Be Popular, visited our school and held several breakout sessions with aspiring 8th grade writers. She also spoke to selected groups of students about what inspires her to write for a middle school audience.

The book has a thrilling effect on teenagers to keep making them read. Maggie moves from place to place and finally decides it’s time to stop. She makes herself into such a dork to make her family move back, but what if there was a possibility they were going to stay. What will Maggie do? Can she change?

“Well they say write what you know,” Ziegler said. “It’s hard to say if I was popular. I didn’t feel popular, but I was liked!”

Writing what you know will certainly helped the talented Ms. Ziegler. Her book is a top rated book. Hold slips go out like crazy in the libraries.

“I think there is a little of me in every character of my books,” Ziegler said. “Carter makes puns all the time and I love puns. Maggie isn’t me, but we both tend to avoid conflicts. I have a sardonic inner voice just like her though.”