It's been eight months since my last blog post. What happened?Actually quite a bit.   I wrote two books. One was a middle grade novel: Small as an Elephant, about an eleven-year-old boy who is abandoned in Acadia National Park and attempts to travel on his own back to Boston (forthcoming from Candlewick Press, spring 2011). The other is a professional book titled No More "I'm Done": Fostering Independent Writers in the Primary Classroom (forthcoming from Stenhouse in February). I am so...