Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Candlewick, Feb. 13, 2007) is now available. Here’s a peek:
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Quincie Morris has never felt more alone. Her hybrid-werewolf first love threatens to embark on a rite of passage that will separate them forever.
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Previously, I have had online ties to the LiveJournal community through syndications of Cynsations and Spookycyn from here at Blogger. However, occasionally errors or blocks occur.
So, I’m launching a mirror Cynsations on LiveJournal. My hope is that–tech gremlins aside–one or the other system will always be running.
You are welcome to read there or here at the original Blogger blog.
Author Alma Fullerton is now offering interviews! Learn more about authors Amy Goldman Koss, Linda Joy Singleton, Verla Kay, Judy Gregerson, and Sherry Garland. See also interviews with Red Deer Press editor Peter Carver and agent Stephen Barbara of the the Donald Maass Literary Agency in Manhattan.
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Congratulations to the winners of the 2006 Cybils! I’d like to send out a special cheer to previously featured winners: author Dianna Hutts Aston and Sylvia Long for An Egg Is Quiet (Chronicle)(author and illustrator interview); author-illustrator Melanie Watt for Scaredy Squirrel (Kids Can);
“Strength Like A Rock” selected by Cindy Welch of BCCB. “[C]elebrates the power and determination of strong black females, young and old, who rise to the occasion, sustain family, and carry forward the dreams of a nation.”
“True Blue Patricia C. McKissack” by Deborah Stevenson from BCCB. Patricia’s titles include Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States (with Fredrick L.
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Elizabeth Garton Scanlon on Elizabeth Garton Scanlon: “I grew up in Vail, Colorado, before it was Vail, Colorado. Our ski passes were $57 a year and we lived in ‘the country’ outside of town. Television didn’t reach that far and stories were everything. My sister and I created serial imaginings that we’d go back to,
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Ghost Fever/Mal de Fantasma by Joe Hays, illustrated by Mona Pennypacker (Cinco Puntos, 2004) is the winner of the Texas Library Association‘s 2006-2007 Bluebonnet award. The title is a bilingual middle reader, and this signifies the first time a bilingual book has won the award.
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Brent Hartinger on Brent Hartinger: “In addition to the books in the Geography Club series (HarperCollins, 2003-), Brent Hartinger is the author of the teen novels The Last Chance Texaco (HarperCollins, 2004) and Grand & Humble (HarperCollins, 2006). His May 2007 release, Dreamquest (Starscape), is the first in a middle grade fantasy series entitled Tales of Slumberia.
Congratulations to Toni Buzzeo on Our Librarian Won’t Tell Us Anything, illustrated by Sachiko Yoshikawa (Upstart, 2006) and Collaborating to Meet Literacy Standards: Teacher/Librarian Partnerships for K-2 (Linworth, 2007). Read a Cynsations interview with Toni.
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Curl Up with a Cup of Tea and a Good Blog by Elizabeth Burns of A Chair,
The Silenced by James DeVita (Laura Geringer Books/HarperCollins, June 2007). Reading is outlawed. Writing is outlawed. Individual identity? Irrelevant. Diversity? Suspect, inferior. Defiance? Punished by death or worse. The Zero Tolerance Party is listening everywhere, and it’s tough to know whom to trust. What happens when Marena forms her own resistance movement, the White Rose? Ages 12-up.
