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K.L. Pickett was born in Southern California. Her first job as a young teenager was collecting eggs on an egg ranch. She’s had many occupations since then: preschool teacher, real estate salesperson, special education teacher’s assistant, loan officer, furniture salesperson, and agricultural biologist, and elementary school teacher.
Her stories and articles have appeared in national magazines such as Boys’ Life, Highlights for Children, Humpty Dumpty, and Ladybug under the name Karen Troncale.
Currently she resides in Tombstone, Arizona, along with her husband and mule. When she’s not writing or reading, she’s riding her mule along the same desert trails that Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday rode upon.
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K.L. Pickett's Blog: Why Write Middle-Grade Books?

Second Person Point-of-View

As a fourth grade teacher, one of my tasks is to teach my students the different narrative points-of-view authors use when writing stories. The first person point-of-view is popular among children's book authors and is easy to ascertain. Just look to see if a character in the story is telling the story and look for words such as I, me, mine, and my.

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Published on February 01, 2015 09:42 • Tags: alistair-grim-s-odditorium, children-s-novel, gregory-funaro, point-of-view

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