title: Inside Stories: Study Guides for Children's Literature (Book 1)
author: Janice Montgomery
description: Janice Montgomery is a seasoned teacher who enjoys the educational process from many perspectives. She was a substitute teacher in K12 for many years before having the privilege of teaching in a self-contained gifted program. Those early years helped prepare her for 15+ years with gifted elementary students that required flexibility and quick thinking. She still relishes the opportunity to meet and communicate with former students from those classroom years. These students have specifically remembered their study guides as a powerful force in their education. Montgomery made a major career change as she moved into the administrative world in 1997 as an assistant principal and professional development coordinator. She currently works for a community education program that is working to improve the learning systems of PreKcollege classrooms. <br /><br /> Candace Taff Carr teaches fourth-grade gifted and talented students in the Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation in Columbus, IN. Carr has a bachelors degree from Indiana State University, a masters degree in Education from Indiana University, and a Gifted and Talented Endorsement from Purdue University. Married, with two school-age sons, she has taught gifted and talented students full-time for more than 20 years. Prior to becoming a gifted education teacher, she taught for 10 years in the regular classroom in every grade except first. She often makes reading and social studies inservice presentations across the state of Indiana and served as a consultant on multiple textbook adoptions. In her spare time, Carr likes to travel to historic places, read biographies, dabble in photography and watch her sons in athletics and the performing arts.
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  # The Big Boys’ League
  
  
  ### Tiffany Sala
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Thanks for picking up _The Big Boys’ League_!
  
  
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  _The Big Boys’ League_ is the third and final book in the _Troubled
  Playthings_ series. The main storyline of each book stands alone, but the
  three books take place sequentially over a series of weeks.
  
  
  If you need to catch up on (or remind yourself of) the first or second books
  in the _Troubled Playthings_ series, you can check them out here.
  
  
  Book 1: [Boys and Their Toys](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085HDMX8R)
  
  
  Book 2: [Games Boys Play](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085HBC3BZ)
  
  
  — Tiffany
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  _The Big Boy