At age 9, an expert on girls

By Claire Martin The Denver Post Alec Greven, age 9, wrote a book called "How to Talk to Girls" that will be published in November by HarperCollins. The work was originally done as a classroom project. (The Denver Post | Karl Gehring) At age 9, Alec Greven is about to be a published author,with HarperCollins to publish his manual, "How to Talk to Girls," just before Thanksgiving. Greven, a fourth-grade student at Soaring Hawk Elementary School in Castle Rock, wrote the first draft as a class project. It caught the principal's attention, then that of parents, then television producers at 9News and the Ellen DeGeneres talk show. Q: How did you think of this particular topic? A: Well, I thought about how in first and second grade, the boys and girls were totally separated. The boys played sports, and the girls played Barbies and... [read full story]