Enter to win one of TWENTY copies of The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams (St. Martin’s Press, 2009)! Read a Cynsations interview with Carol.
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,
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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Mark McVeigh spent two post-collegiate years in Paris, working for a jewelry designer, before returning to the U.S. east coast, for a master’s in education at NYU. He taught sixth grade at PS 20 in Fort Greene, Brooklyn for four years before taking a job as editorial assistant at Golden Books.
Since then he has worked at Scholastic,
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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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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.
Mara Rockliff, Children’s Writer: official site from the author of such books as Next To An Ant, illustrated by Pascale Constantin (Scholastic), Pieces of Another World (Sylvan Dell), illustrated by Salima Alikhan, and the forthcoming The Busiest Street in Town, illustrated by Sarah McMenemy (Knopf), which will be released in October.
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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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.
Writing a Twitter novel has given me back an artistic jolt I had almost forgotten: Raw Fear.
At a conference, I heard myself giving advice that I hadn’t followed in a long time.
I wasn’t experimenting with anything that scared me to death anymore.
That night,
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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,
