New Voice: Nicole Maggi on Winter Falls (Twin Willows Trilogy)

New Voice: Nicole Maggi on Winter Falls (Twin Willows Trilogy)

By Cynthia Leitich Smith

Nicole Maggi is the first-time author of Winter Falls (Twin Willows Trilogy) (Medallion Press, 2014). From the promotional copy:

Sixteen-year-old Alessia Jacobs is dying to get out of her small town of Twin Willows, Maine. 

Things start looking up when a new family comes to town—but when she falls for Jonah,

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New Voice: David Zeltser on Lug, Dawn Of The Ice Age

New Voice: David Zeltser on Lug, Dawn Of The Ice Age

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By Cynthia Leitich Smith

David Zeltser is the first-time author of Lug, Dawn Of The Ice Age: How One Small Boy Saved Our Big, Dumb Species (Egmont, 2014). From the promotional copy:

In Lug’s Stone Age clan, a caveboy becomes a caveman by catching a jungle llama and riding it against the rival Boar Rider clan in the Big Game. 

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Guest Post: Simon Nicholson on An Alternative History & Investigator of Mystery

Guest Post: Simon Nicholson on An Alternative History & Investigator of Mystery

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By Simon Nicholson

I was reading books about Houdini. It seemed to me one of the most exciting things about him was that, as well as being the world’s most famous illusionist, he also devoted much of his life to doing battle against “magic”.

Enraged at the thought of ordinary people being exploited,

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