Barri is available to speak to your organization . . .
Writers Groups/Motivational Talks
Character Casting
Don't Let Poor Grammar Stop You...
Got Ink?
How to Get Put on an FBI Watchlist
Making Crime Pay
Marketing Yourself, Not Your Book
Monsters--Inspired By the Dark
Readers Workshop--How-To Get Started or How To Recharge It
So You've Written a Book, Now What?
YA Books--A Glimpse at the Cutting Edge
Teachers/School Talks
Career Day Talk--Why Write?
Get Motivated
Hot YA Novels
How to Make Non-Fiction Fun
How to Use Music in the Classroom
Motivating Kids With Fiction
Reading Workshop
Research for Realism
Technology for the Classroom
Top Ten Reasons to Be a Writer
Warm-Ups to Inspire Writing in the Classroom
Ways to Get Inspired
Writing Project
For full details, right-click to download the appropriate PDF file:
Writers Groups/Motivational Talks
Teachers/School Talks
What Teachers and Students are saying about Barri:
| Barri deftly held the attention spans of 100 adolescents in the palm of her hand. She amused them with her "killer" humor and touched them with a heartfelt documentary on school violence. She inspired them to write and to read, as well as explaining how writing works in the 'real world.' Barri left the students with excitement to write, as well as challenged them to make a difference in their worlds. ~Justine Rogers, Language Arts teacher, Ashland Middle School |
| I think that you touched a lot of people and I think that the books your write express a lot of things that I think about and that touch me... ~Jessica B./8th grader |
| I really enjoyed hearing about how being a real author works. My mom says I'm a good writer, and you coming really inspired me to try to finish one of the stories I wrote. ~Julia R./8th grader |
| When you showed us that documentary, it really got to me and I saw how I could make a difference. ~Liz G./ 8th grader |
| Your speeches were like a shot in the arm. ~Jayk A./ 8th grader |
| I noticed that almost all of us listened, which doesn't happen very often. ~Beth K. |
| Thanks for autographing my first chapter. I went home and framed the first chapter, book mark, and your card, and started bragging to my siblings about how I got to meet an actual author! ~Briana F./8th grader |
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