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Archive Home > 2006 > March > 15 > Children's author inspires students at middle school

Children's author inspires students at middle school

Ben Mikaelsen spoke about overcoming feelings of inferiority, childhood bullies

By Benny Polacca / The Bulletin
March 15, 2006

Ben Mikaelsen struggled with spelling "the" until he was in college.

During a Central Oregon visit, the children's books author told Bend's Sky View Middle School seventh- and eighth-graders Monday his struggle with grammar and spelling was because English was not his first language.....

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