Chris Rylander is the first-time author of The Fourth Stall (Walden Pond Press/HarperCollins, 2011). From the promotional copy:
Do you need something? Mac can get it for you. It’s what he does—he and his best friend and business manager, Vince. Their methods might sometimes run afoul of the law—or at least the school code of conduct—but if you have a problem,
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2010 Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature recognize the following winners and honor authors:
Picture Book Winner
Ann Malaspina for Yasmin’s Hammer, illustrated by Doug Chayka (Lee and Low, 2010). See also Exploring Bangladesh with Ann Malaspina and Doug Chayka from Lee & Low.
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Attention Writers! Send a photo of yourself with a dinosaur (a museum skeleton, recreation, gas-station logo, made from Legos, whatever) to Greg Leitich Smith for inclusion in his upcoming blog series, Writers and Dinosaurs. You don’t have to be published to participate! See link for details. See also Greg on The University of Michigan Museum of Natural History.
One of the first things I did when I got the offer from Scholastic to publish my debut novel The Lonely Hearts Club (Point, 2010, 2011) was to buy an URL.
As a publicist in the publishing business for over ten years, I knew how important it was for an author to have an online presence.
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Carrie Harris is the monster-obsessed, geek-of-all-trades, Excel-spreadsheet-addicted president of the Class of 2k11. Brains are her specialty; she used to work in a lab where they were delivered daily via FedEx. After that, it seemed only natural to write a zombie book: Bad Taste in Boys, which will be published by Delacorte in July.
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Diana Wynne Jones, Children’s Author, Dies at 76 by Bruce Weber from The New York Times. Peek: “Diana Wynne Jones, whose critically admired stories and novels for children and teenage readers imagined fantastical worlds inhabited by wizards, witches, magicians and ordinary boys and girls, died on Saturday in Bristol, England. She was 76.”
The 2011 Texas Library Association raffle masterpiece is “Space Age,” an original gouache illustration (image area is approximately 8.5 x 11.5) donated by author-illustrator Melanie Hope Greenberg.
The panel was created for the picture book Supermarket by Kathleen Krull (Holiday House, 2001).
Greenberg chose this painting to correspond with the 2011 conference theme of “Libraries Crossing Boundaries;
Cindy Callaghan is the first-time author of Just Add Magic (Aladdin, 2010)(discussion guide). From the promotional copy:
When Kelly Quinn and her two BFFs discover a dusty old cookbook while cleaning out her attic, the girls decide to try a few of the mysterious recipes inside.
But the ancient book bears an eerie warning,
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Enter to win a signed copy of Throat by R.A. Nelson (Knopf, 2011). From the promotional copy:
She’s superhuman. There’s just one catch.
Seventeen-year-old Emma Cooper has always been a risk taker at heart, smart and adventurous. But ever since her first grand mal seizure at the age of 13,
“Wanting is just another kind of hunger…”
– Saraswati’s Way
Saraswati’s Way (Frances Foster/FSG, 2010) is a middle grade novel about a 12-year old Indian boy, Akash, with a gift for math, who runs away from his home in rural India to find a better life.
