Epic fantasy author Brandon Sanderson thought he’d outgrown reading at the age of 11, until his teacher handed him Barbara Hambly’s Dragonsbane – and everything changed
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I was saved by a teacher.
I was in eighth grade (year 9 in UK) . A gangly new teen, suddenly uncertain. Being younger had made sense to me – by the time I hit sixth grade, I felt I had this kid thing down. But then I was hit by the tempest of uncertainty, wonder, and awkwardness that is puberty. Suddenly, everyone around them seemed to know things I didn’t. They were all so confident. My peers understood, at least from my perspective, how to be teens. Where had they learned? How could they project such certainty, such belongingness?
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