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  • Chasing Dreams
    Friday, April 5th, 2013     Marie Sontag     Start the Conversation

    When I was younger, I wrote  stories about what I dreamed about at night. As I grew older, I dreamed of writing full-time. Now, I still write what I dream, but my dreams of writing full-time have become a reality! The Bronze Dagger, my middle grade fiction novel about a 12-year-old living in Ancient Mesopotamia, …[ read more ]

  • The Bronze Dagger
    Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013     Marie Sontag     Start the Conversation

    A ten-year-old dream will soon become a reality! About ten years ago my husband and I obsessed (okay, only I obsessed) over a 3,000-year-old bronze dagger we saw at an antiquities store. Teaching 6th grade social studies at the time, I imagined showing my students the ancient dagger while teaching them about Hammurabi and Ancient …[ read more ]