{"id":10282,"date":"2026-01-12T19:08:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T19:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=10282"},"modified":"2026-01-12T19:08:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T19:08:42","slug":"riverside-elementary-and-why-we-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/riverside-elementary-and-why-we-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Riverside Elementary and why we read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thank you, Kristin and Beth for the opportunity to speak with 5th grade Riverside Elementary students last Friday. This new crop of 5th grade students were as inquisitive, enthusiastic and respectful as always. I loved the opportunity to talk about how I wrote Making Bombs for Hitler and why I write on such serious topics for a young audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/riverside2026.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/riverside2026.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/riverside2026-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/riverside2026-150x113.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/riverside22026.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/riverside22026.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/riverside22026-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/riverside22026-150x113.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" data-id=\"10279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/riverside20263.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/riverside20263.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/riverside20263-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/riverside20263-150x113.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you, Kristin and Beth for the opportunity to speak with 5th grade Riverside Elementary students last Friday. This new crop of 5th grade students were as inquisitive, enthusiastic and respectful as always. I loved the opportunity to talk about how I wrote Making Bombs for Hitler and why I write on such serious topics &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/riverside-elementary-and-why-we-read\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Riverside Elementary and why we read&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[214,353,7,475,51],"class_list":["post-10282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","tag-making-bombs-for-hitler","tag-scholastic","tag-ukrainian","tag-virtual-visits","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10283,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10282\/revisions\/10283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}