New Voice: Erin Dionne on Models Don’t Eat Chocolate Cookies

New Voice: Erin Dionne on Models Don’t Eat Chocolate Cookies

Erin Dionne is the first-time author of Models Don’t Eat Chocolate Cookies (Dial, 2009). From the promotional copy:

Thirteen-year-old Celeste Harris is no string bean, but comfy sweatpants and a daily chocolate cookie suit her just fine. Her under-the-radar lifestyle could have continued too, if her aunt hadn’t entered her in the HuskyPeach Modeling Challenge.

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Author Interview: Carol Lynch Williams on The Chosen One

Author Interview: Carol Lynch Williams on The Chosen One

Carol Lynch Williams is the author of several books for young readers, most recently including The Chosen One (St. Martin’s, 2009). From the promotional copy:

Thirteen-year-old Kyra has grown up in an isolated community without questioning the fact that her father has three wives and she has twenty brothers and sisters, with two more on the way.

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Author Interview: Wendy Lichtman on Do The Math: Secrets, Lies, and Algebra & The Writing on the Wall

Author Interview: Wendy Lichtman on Do The Math: Secrets, Lies, and Algebra & The Writing on the Wall

Wendy Lichtman on Wendy Lichtman:

“Wendy Lichtman writes personal essays for The Washington Post, The New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Good Housekeeping, among other national publications.

“She has also written four previous young adult novels before her Do The Math series.

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New Voice: Cindy Pon on Silver Phoenix: Beyond the Kingdom of Xia

New Voice: Cindy Pon on Silver Phoenix: Beyond the Kingdom of Xia

Cindy Pon is the first-time author of Silver Phoenix: Beyond the Kingdom of Xia (HarperTeen, 2009). From the promotional copy:

No one wanted Ai Ling. And deep down she is relieved–despite the dishonor she has brought upon her family–to be unbetrothed and free, not some stranger’s subservient bride banished to the inner quarters.

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Author Interview: Sharon G. Flake on The Broken Bike Boy and the Queen of 33rd Street

Author Interview: Sharon G. Flake on The Broken Bike Boy and the Queen of 33rd Street

Sharon G. Flake on Sharon G. Flake: “I was born in Philadelphia in 1955 and am one of six children. A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh in English, I went on to become a house parent, a foster care worker, and then a public relations representative and director at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Vermont College of Fine Arts Postgraduate Writers’ Conference Fourteenth Annual Event to Feature Kathi Appelt and An Na

Vermont College of Fine Arts Postgraduate Writers’ Conference Fourteenth Annual Event to Feature Kathi Appelt and An Na

The Vermont College of Fine Arts Postgraduate Writers’ Conference Fourteenth Annual Event will be held from Aug. 11 to Aug. 17.

Vermont College of Fine Arts, home of the nationally acclaimed MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults Program, has since 1996 offered a summer conference dedicated to advanced writers seeking to recharge,

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