Long story short: my name is Natalie Wilkinson, the old lady that started the Young Author Project, and author #9 on The Art of Giving A Crap. I’m a licensed middle school instructor (6-8th grade English Language Arts and Spanish) and published children’s book author with a heart and soul for Jesus. School Boost Online is my company, which focuses on tutoring and educational resources. I taught English Language Arts in public school for 5 years (yep, I was a first-year during COVID – fun, fun, fun). During my teaching years, I noticed that a lot of kids have amazing talents that fall through the cracks and never get used in school. There are kids that can draw, paint, sculpt, work well with technology, do voices, and write exceptionally well; in a world of standardized testing, these gifts don’t really matter, and that really bothers me to this day. School Boost Online became a way for me to be able to facilitate projects like The Art of Giving A Crap, which I am thrilled and honored to do. I’d love to continue doing so as long as the Lord allows.

Students love to work with me because I love to work with them – I always strive to create an atmosphere of joy, creativity, and excellence. I wish I’d had something like the Young Author Project when I was growing up, and it’s my privilege to serve in this way.

Natalie Wilkinson of School Boost Online and Young Author Project.com

In my spare time, I like to stare at sunlight streaming in through windows. It makes me think of God.

The Young Author Project was created in 2023 by a group of 8 superstar students and 1 busy teacher. In their own ways, each student demonstrated outstanding work ethic and talent while in class in Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening – so much so that one day, the teacher thought it’d be a great idea for them to write and publish an original novel. They all loved the prospect, so that’s exactly what they did. After meeting at their local public library almost every Saturday for a year and three months, they completed the manuscript, got it professionally edited, and launched their book on August 1, 2024. The next novels are already in the works, and so are new opportunities for new young authors to be minted before they graduate high school.

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School Boost Online is a teacher-owned company focusing on high-quality tutoring and educational resources, and is also the official sponsor of the Young Author Project. Sign up for in-person tutoring in the Concord, North Carolina area for Reading, Writing, English Language Arts, and Spanish. Online tutoring available via Zoom in North Carolina, South Carolina and the surrounding states including Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and more.