The classrooms of Chris Raabe and John Kalkowski sit on opposite ends of the hall in Millard’s Andersen Middle School.
During the day they teach seventh-graders — Raabe, English, and Kalkowski, reading. On nights, weekends and summers, they write young adult fiction — sci-fi- and action-infused book series aimed at the same age group they’re teaching. And each job feeds the other.
Writing books makes them better at teaching sentence structure and storytelling subtext. Hanging around with seventh-graders all day helps them know what seventh-graders are like and what they’d like to read
Full article:
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Two of the books by these authors
The New Phenomenon by Chris Raabe
http://amzn.to/1N4XOPZ
Red Cell by John Kalkowski
http://amzn.to/1Nc8Lgl