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ABOUT BETTY JO
BETTY JO SCHULER is a former elementary teacher
and the author of sixteen published books for children, teens, and adults.
Published in both fiction and non-fiction, electronically and in print, she
likes trying different things.
Her children’s fiction, which you’ll find on this
site, includes several chapter books. BABY FOR SALE and SECRET 'TILL WE'RE GROWN are
based on the adventures of a group of young kids who live on a cul-de-sac. VANILLA, PLAIN, AND SHY is about a girl who
overcomes her shyness “in front of the whole world” when she wins her mom a
dream wedding. RAIN MAN and DOUBLE TROUBLE DITTO BOX
feature middle-grader Randy O'Rourke and his unpredictable inventions.
ICE CREAM FOR BREAKFAST (Willowisp, 1991), the
story of a town where everything is backward, was her first published chapter
book for children. Much loved by children, it’s now out of print, she’s sorry
to say.
HEARTTHROB, a young romance (Bantam, 1995) that
was Betty Jo's first young adult book, is also out of print. Her more recent
teen titles, SECOND CHANCE AT LOVE and CAMP CHEER, a pick-a-path mystery, were
named to the Excellent E-Book Eleven at "E-Books for Kids," and CAMP CHEER
was a young adult book finalist in the 2001 EPPIES (awards for outstanding
works first published in electronic format.) NO RAIN, NO RAINBOWS, a collection
of stories she wrote for teens, was nominated in the anthology category in
2000. You’ll find these books and those for grownups on her other site.
“Fiction is fun to write,” she says, but she wrote
her first non-fiction book, BULLY BRIGADE (DiskUs Publishing)
because being bullied isn’t fun, and kids need to know why some kids bully
others and learn how to stop them. An EPPIE children’s finalist in 2006, this
book is easy-to-read with thought-provoking questions and humorous illustrations
by artist Susan Scott that make it suitable for various ages and
abilities.
Schuler and Scott’s second non-fiction book,
B-FORCE, is a superhero and heroine comic book for older students that deals
with more serious issues and solutions for both the bullied and the
bully. Suitable for middle-graders and high schoolers, this book appears on
both of Schuler’s sites.
A Teacher’s Guide and Reproducible Activity Kit to
aid classroom teachers, home schoolers, and counselors is available for each of
these books.
Betty Jo, who has a B.S. in Education from Miami
University, Oxford, Ohio, and M.A. from Ball State U, Muncie, Indiana, taught
school for twenty-three years. Formerly a Midwesterner, she now lives in
Florida with her husband of thirty years where she teaches Writer’s Digest
online courses, “Fundamentals of Writing for Children,” “Focus on Writing for
Children,” and “You Can Write a Romance.” In addition, she’s a Barnes and Noble
University instructor for “You Can Write Children’s Books.” Her children’s
site is linked to America Writes 4 Kids.
Children's Website:
http://bettyjoschuler.net/bettyjo.html
DiskUs Publishing,
http://www.diskuspublishing.com/bettyjoschuler.html |
