My first book, Jingle Dancer, illustrated by Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu (Morrow/HarperCollins), was published ten years ago. From the promotional copy:
Jenna, a contemporary Native American girl in Oklahoma, wants to honor a family tradition by jingle dancing at the next powwow. But where will she find enough jingles for her dress?
Nationwide, scores of young adult authors and librarians to drop books on April 15 AKA Support Teen Literature Day
Operation Teen Book Drop will deliver 10,000 new books to teens on Native reservations and tribal lands, an event that coincides with Support Teen Literature Day.
In addition,
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Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams are co-authors of the new Goddess Girls series (Aladdin, 2010-).
These middle-grade books include Athena the Brain (April 2010)(excerpt), Persephone the Phony (April 2010), Aphrodite the Beauty (August 2010), and Artemis the Brave (December 2010).
Suzanne: The Goddess Girls series began with a conversation over dinner.
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Author Tonya Hegamin and illustrator Taeeun Yoo are the winners of the 2010 Ezra Jack Keats Awards, which celebrate excellence in children’s literature by new authors and illustrators, who, in the spirit of the late author-illustrator Ezra Jack Keats, offer new and electrifying views of the multicultural world children inhabit today.
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Meg Kearney’s first collection of poetry, An Unkindness of Ravens, was published by BOA Editions Ltd. in 2001.
The Secret of Me, her novel in verse for teens, was released in hardcover by Persea Books in 2005; the paperback edition, along with a teacher’s guide, came out in 2007.
Learn more about Kathy L. Patrick.
Could you please begin by telling us the story behind your story?
My story really begins when I was downsized from my dream job. I was book publisher’s representative, and as I was the last hired, I was the first let go.
When independent bookstores started closing in my territory due to the influx of big-box chains,
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Andrew Harwell is an editorial assistant at Dutton Children’s Books, a division of the Penguin Young Readers Group.
What were you like as a young reader?
I loved big, sweeping books, especially the classics. I remember running around my school playground with Robinson Crusoe [by Daniel Defoe (1719)] and Wuthering Heights [by Emily Brontë (1847)] tucked under my arm.
Enter to win Vampireology: A Genuine and Moste Authentic Ology (Candlewick, 2010)! From the promotional copy:
Long before the term vampire was born, long before Bram Stoker fictionalized this being’s ways, blood-drinking demons were banished to Earth by Michael’s host of Angels, or so the Bible describes.
Now this rich, mesmerizing resource,
Y. S. Lee is the first-time author of The Agency: A Spy in the House (The Agency Trilogy: Book One)(Candlewick, 2010)(excerpt). From the promotional copy:
Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan (and thief) Mary Quinn is surprised to be offered a singular education, instruction in fine manners —
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Virginia Hamilton: Speeches, Essays, & Conversations, co-edited by Arnold Adoff (Hamilton’s husband) and Kacy Cook (Scholastic/Blue Sky Press, 2010), gives us Hamilton’s voice throughout her career, from her first nationally published essay in 1971 to her final speech at a children’s book festival in 2001.
Through these pieces, Hamilton explored her creative process and shared her views on the role of the writer as well as insights on the central themes of her work.
