Popular Middle Grade Author Stuart Gibbs Launches a New Venture to Help Inspire and Guide Young Writers

When you think about middle grade readers, Stuart Gibbs should be one of the go to authors that come to mind. He has written six book series, including the FunJungle series, the Moon Base Alpha series, the Spy School series, the Charlie Thorne series, the Last Musketeer and Once Upon a Tim. He is now launching a new video series to help inspire young writers and share tips with them. It’s a growing resource that should prove valuable to educators and librarians everywhere.

The new venture is a free and easy to access website with fun educational videos called Stuart Gibbs Mission: Write.

https://stuartgibbsmissionwrite.com/

From the press release, S&S Children’s shares that Gibbs has just launched Stuart Gibbs – Mission: Write —  “a new video tool for teachers and librarians to help students with their creative writing skills, hosted by Stuart Gibbs, and in consultation with educators.” Check out his video introduction below.

Here you can find lesson plans, teacher instructions, and extension activities accompany each of the themes to help take students further within each topic, and the videos and downloads are free for classrooms to use. What a great resource! And every teacher can use more resources that take less time.

The videos were filmed on location throughout the Los Angeles area and touch on a variety of themes. The themes include: Anatomy of a Scene, Building Characters, Revisions, Telling a Story and Writerly Advice, and more. There are more lessons on the way.

When asked what inspired Gibbs to create this platform for students, Gibbs shared:

“One of the most common questions I get from students, whether it’s during a school visit or via email or a comment on my website, is ‘What advice do I have for aspiring authors?’  Now, those young authors — or entire classrooms — can go to this site and not just get advice from me, but also some truly wonderful lesson plans created by Dr Rose Brock. I have already heard from dozens of students and teachers around the country about how helpful they have found Mission: Write — and I am thrilled by how well this project has come together, thanks to everyone at Simon & Schuster.”

Stuart Gibbs

This is a great resource and you’ll want to check it out.

ABOUT STUART GIBBS

Stuart Gibbs is the New York Times bestselling author of the Charlie Thorne series, FunJungle series, Moon Base Alpha series, Once Upon a Tim series, and Spy School series. He has written screenplays, worked on a whole bunch of animated films, developed TV shows, been a newspaper columnist, and researched capybaras (the world’s largest rodents). Stuart lives with his family in Los Angeles.

AND CHECK OUT STUART GIBBS SERIES FOR MIDDLE GRADE READERS

Spy School

Can an undercover nerd become a superstar agent? In the first book in the New York Times bestselling Spy School series, Ben Ripley sure hopes so—and his life may depend on it!

Charlie Thorne

Charlie Thorne is a genius. Charlie Thorne is a thief. Charlie Thorne isn’t old enough to drive. And now it’s up to her to save the world…

FunJungle

Join middle school sleuth, Teddy Fitzroy, as he solves mysteries at FunJungle, the nation’s largest zoo in this hilarious, New York Times bestselling series.

Moon Base Alpha

It’s a murder mystery on the moon in this humorous and suspenseful space adventure! Twelve-year-old Dashiell Gibson solves murders, finds missing people, and searches for a rogue poisoner in this far-out adventure series.

Once Upon a Tim

A hilarious, highly illustrated middle grade series about a peasant boy named Tim who dreams of becoming a knight. He doesn’t know how to ride a horse or wield anything more deadly than a water bucket, but he’s going to do whatever it takes to make sure his dream becomes a reality.

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