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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:29:57 PST

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A Movie Made By Zombie Girl

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:23:25 PST

Emily Hagins is known among independent filmmakers as Zombie Girl. She got this name after creating a full-length zombie film called Pathogen. Filmmakers Justin Johnson, Aaron Marshall, and...

Zombie Haiku

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:17:17 PST

In READ's zombie mag We asked for deadly haikus Here are some you sent. Someone so dead-like Should not be so lifelike, now Unless you're zombie - Melissa...

Charlotte's Zombie Tale

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:50:03 PST

Thanks to Justus Owen, a middle school student in Ohio, we now know what really happened to Charlotte in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies! (The squeamish may want to turn away now.) ...

Zombie Austen Ate My Brain

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:06:18 PST

In the special Halloween issue of READ, I interviewed a very dead Jane Austen. At the end of the interview, there was some confusion as to what happened. Well, the truth of the matter is that Ms....

Will-o’-the-What?

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:20:21 PDT

A Halloween story about vocabulary by Debbie Nevins Yesterday I wrote about word mix-ups. Thinking a word means one thing only to find out it means another—and that you’ve been using it...

The Truth About Puce
(Or the Truce About Puthe)

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:44:10 PDT

The following blog entry was written by Debbie Nevins, Executive Editor of www.weeklyreader.com. Sometimes we can get a poor innocent word all wrong. Being a writer, it goes...

Jack Gantos - The Complete READ Interview

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:03:42 PDT

In the WRITE FOR YOUR LIFE issue, we offered an edited version of an interview with Jack Gantos. Today, we present to you, the interview with the author in its entirety. Enjoy! READ:...

For Justice

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:47:30 PDT

Great writers tell the world about the injustices they see. And so do our READers! Thanks to Joshua P. who sent in this poem about the justice he wishes to see in this world. Strong,...

2012

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:35:46 PDT

In our STRANGER THAN FICTION issue, we asked you to write a story about the last day on earth, before the supposed 2012 apocalypse. Here is one student's story. Enjoy! Gotta Live Before I...