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hunter hooten

Harry Mazer | Official Publisher Page - 1 views

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harry mazer

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  • Harry Mazer is the author of many books for young readers, including My Brother Abe, A Boy at War, A Boy No More, Heroes Don't Run, The Wild Kid; and Snow Bound. His books have won numerous honors, including the Horn Book Honor List and the ALA Best books for Young Adults citations. He is the recipient of the ALAN Award. Harry Mazer lives in Montpelier, Vermont.
  • Nicole Hicks on 18 Apr 11
     
    This site lists all his works and has information about him.
  • hunter hooten on 06 May 11
     
    some of his books
Leslie Blankenship

Reviewer X: Author Interview: Lurlene McDaniel - 0 views

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cjhs lurlene mcdaniel

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  • Lurlene McDaniel began writing about young adults when her son Sean was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes at the age of 3. His illness changed the lives of everyone in her family forever. “I saw what life was like for someone who was chronically ill, and I experienced how it affected the dynamics of the family,” says McDaniel. She says she found that writing about the trauma and its effects was therapeutic. She has written over 40 novels about kids who face life-threatening illnesses. To find out more about her, visit her websites:
  • My path was pure blessing, luck, right place-right time. I wrote ad/pr copy on the side and one day met a woman at a photo shoot and we struck up a conversation. When she discovered I was a writer, she invited me to try my hand at a children's book because her father owned a publishing company---School Book Fairs (now Darby Press). They bought 23 books from me before I moved on to Bantam/Random House.
  • Letters from my readers usually captivate me with their stories of overcoming great odds and struggles to make the best out of what life hands them.
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  • I love the label. It was invented by librarians (I think) and it differentiates me from other YA writers.
  • No...readers tell me they like the endings because they reflect "real life." Some readers are disappointed when the boy/girl don't get together in an ending, however.
  • Fan mail still arrives, but the Web is where today's teen resides. That's why I have four Web contact points. I don't depend on snail mail anymore. Many letters have touched me. I have a "keeper" file of my best letters and sometimes read from it when I do public speaking.
  • That book was sold and in movie form before I was informed it had been filmed. Certainly I was paid, but I had no input about content. I was a little disappointed in the (not mine) ending (so were fans!), but I was glad it made it onto the screen at all because so many books get "optioned", but never produced. I'd still like one to go to the big screen, though.
  • Once again, longevity has been a major blessing. SIX MONTHS TO LIVE was first published in 1985, but it's still selling. Publishing today is harder than ever because the industry is in flux. Sales across the industry have fallen and no one quite knows how to fix it. Also the YA shelves are glutted with material and writers are fighting for shelf space. The YA rage now is fantasy, vampires, the supernatural. When I started with Bantam/Random House, the shelves were loaded with romance and horror. Styles change, but I will always write what I feel comfortable writing---teens handling life-altering events with a positive message about the wonder of living.
  • Write for the sheer pleasure of writing. Keep journals. Get an education. Submit. Focus on story, voice, style, structure, not on "being published."
  • I'm working on HEART 2 HEART, a story about a heart transplant and human connections. My newest, BREATHLESS, will come out in May 2009. It takes 4-6 months for me to write a book---if I don't procrastinate too much.
  • YA writing rocks!!! My agent and many readers have asked me to write for the adult market, but adults bore me. I love writing for teens and pre-teens.
nick wood

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  • nick wood on 25 Apr 11
     
    this is the book i reading
justin moore

HotBookSale.com - BookS by Paulsen Gary - 0 views

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cjhs author gary paulsen

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  • justin moore on 02 May 11
     
    some off the books on sale of Gary paulsens books.
Bryan Soles

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garth

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  • GARTH NIX
  • Garth has worked as a public servant, bookseller, book editor and literary agent. In 2002, following his outstanding international success, Garth returned to full-time writing (despite his belief that this contributes to the strange behaviour of many authors!). Garth lives in Sydney with his wife Anna, who is a publisher, and their sons Thomas and Edward. His highly inventive stories set in vivid, compelling worlds have been critically acclaimed and are popular around the world with readers of all ages. The rights to his Old Kingdom Trilogy (Sabriel, Lirael & Abhorsen) have been sold to over 12 countries. To date, Garth's books have sold in excess of 1,600,000 copies internationally, with Abhorsen reaching No.3 on the New York Times best seller list.
  • abriel and Shade's Children, have won major awards in the areas of both children's literature and the fantasy genre - they have been named as CBC Notable Books and shortlisted for the Aurealis Awards, with Sabriel winning two awards in this prestigious Australian Science Fiction Prize. More recently, Mister Monday, the first book in Garth's The Keys to the Kingdom series, was an Honour Book (Older Readers Category) in the 2004 CBCA Awards and shortlisted for the Aurealis Awards (2003). Continuing The Keys to the Kingdom series, Grim Tuesday and Drowned Wednesday, Sir Thursday, Lady Friday and Superior Saturday have now been published, with children and adults alike eagerly awaiting the final installment, Lord Sunday, which will be published early in 2010.
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  • Garth is also the author of three booklets for Very Clever Babies - a series of 'easy readers' for three-month-old babies who are familiar with words such as 'perfidious' and 'icthyology'. His other achievements include a novelisation of one of the 'X-files' episodes and some 'proper' early readers - Bill the Inventor and Blackbeard the Pirate, and a book in the Aussie Bites series, Serena Smith and the Sea Serpent.
Leslie Blankenship

books by Lurlene Mcdaniel (rochelle kathleen mcdaniel) - 0 views

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lurlene mcdaniel cjhs books

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  • Leslie Blankenship on 25 Apr 11
     
    books by Lurlene McDaniel
Leslie Blankenship

Reviewer X: Lurlene McDaniel Books (Soooooo Many) - 0 views

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CJHS lurlene mcdaniel

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  • Author Lurlene McDaniel has written so many books, I’ve lost count. She’s one of those authors whose works you can only quantify as “over (however many) books.” Her official biography says over 40, to which I say, well over 40. I haven’t read her recent releases, but I think I pretty much exhausted her backlist back when I was in middle school. One thing that always struck me when reading her novels was how strong her characters were, or became throughout the (usually heartbreaking) course of the book. It was her work that made me look at medicine as a possible career path, and it was her work that kept me reading compulsively after I outgrew BSC.
justin moore

Gary Paulsen | Scholastic.com - 0 views

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      justin moore on 25 Apr 11
       
      Gary Paulsen
  • May 17, 1939 United States Of America Current Home:  New Mexico,United States Of America
  • Gary Paulsen Biography
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  • A chance visit to a library on a cold day was the turning point in young Gary Paulsen's life. A librarian gave him a library card and a book, and the teenaged Paulsen discovered that books could provide excellent companionship. His resulting passion for literature has stimulated a wealth of published works for both children and adults.
  • The product of a difficult childhood, Paulsen ran away from home at the age of fourteen. His experience in diverse jobs and a wide range of interests have provided the basis for much of his written work. His stories are woven from his personal experiences, and many of them feature outdoor settings and the harmony of nature. Several of his books deal with the theme of survival and human endurance. Hatchet, which has become a modern-day classic, won him the Newbery Honor Award. Paulsen's interest in dog sledding led to his participation in the Iditarod Sled Dog Race. The impact of this experience on his life is brought to life in several of his outstanding books, including Woodsong and Dogsong, another Newbery Honor Award winner. His close relationship with his dogs and all of nature is delicately blended into his stories about the race, allowing the reader to experience the true feeling of being out on the trail. Paulsen lives in New Mexico with his wife, artist Ruth Wright Paulsen, who has illustrated several of his books.
Leslie Blankenship

chapters.indigo.ca: Angels In Pink: Kathleen's Story: Lurlene Mcdaniel: Books - 0 views

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lurlene mcdaniel cjhs

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  • Random House Children's Books | December 28, 2004 | Reinforced Library Binding It's the summer after sophomore year and Raina has convinced her best friends since the sixth grade, Kathleen and Holly, to spend their summer as "pink angels" in Parker-Sloan General Hospital's summer volunteer program. Kathleen is reluctant to
jarred hatchette

The Stellar Book Award :: Gordon Korman - 0 views

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author cjhs gordon korman stellar

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    • jared moore
      jared moore on 27 Apr 11
       
      Wow! He was that young when he wrote his first book!
  • Korman then sent the story to Scholastic, and it was published the following year. His next four books were written over his summer vacations. At 16, Korman won the Air Canada award for the most promising young author in Canada
  • Other Books Born to Rock 2006 Son of the Mob: Hollywood Hustle, 2004 Jake, Reinvented, 2003 Son of the Mob, 2002 The Chicken Doesn’t Skate, 1996 Losing Joe’s Place, 1990 A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag, 1987 Son of Interflux, 1986 Don’t Care High, 1985
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    • jared moore
      jared moore on 27 Apr 11
       
      Many books
  • This Can’t Be Happening at MacDonald Hall as a Grade 7 English project.
Kaylee S

Amazon.com: Sharon M. Draper: Books, Biography, Blog, AudioBooks, Kindle - 0 views

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books to read

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      Kaylee S on 03 May 11
       
      a LOT more books to find and read
  • Kaylee S on 03 May 11
     
    a LOT more books to find and read
jared moore

No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman - Powell's Books - 0 views

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gordon korman No More Dead Dogs

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      jared moore on 02 May 11
       
      We have this book in our library.
  • Awards
  • Winner of the 2003 Young Reader's Choice Award, Intermediate Division
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  • About the Author
  • Gordon Korman is a Canadian author of novels, primarily for children and young adults. In the seventh grade, his language arts teacher was a track and field coach. At a loss on what to do, the teacher simply allowed them to work on whatever they wanted for the rest of the year. For Gordon, this resulted in This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall, the first book in his "Bruno and Boots" series, arguably his most famous. It was published a year and a half later by the Scholastic Press, when Gordon was 14 years old. He currently resides in New York City, with his wife and three children.
  • Amanda Moorman, April 23, 2009 (view all comments by Amanda Moorman) This book is absolutely hilarious! I teach 8th grade language arts, and my students have enjoyed the few minutes a day I have spent reading it to them! Definately a must-have!
  • Amy Merk, January 24, 2008 (view all comments by Amy Merk) Korman writes with a contemporary voice that
  • really connected with my middle-school students. With relatively short chapters and witty wordwork, it also makes a great read aloud for grades five and up.
chelan mcgee

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      Kaylee S on 02 May 11
       
      five-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Literary award
  • But Sharon Draper, bestselling author and five-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Literary Award, is among the group of writers who has such a passion for both her professions that she remains active in both in ways that would have most waving the white flag of surrender.
  • Her accomplishments are many and her literary prowess is well-documented with powerful stories of loss
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  • BBS: Can you tell me a little bit more about the infamous Draper Paper. What made it so tough? So tough students who have passed it donned “I Survived The Draper Pape
  • The “Draper Paper” was simply a ten-page research paper that my seniors had to complete. It required several library visits and lots of planning and note-taking, and outlining, etc. In short, they learned the skills necessary to do a college research assignment.
  • When I was in school we learned grammar. We learned sentence structure, then learned to use those sentences in paragraphs, and then to put paragraphs into longer written works. Many schools no longer do that. They have even divided what we used to call “English” classes into Reading classes and Language Arts classes, with little or no team teaching between those teachers.
  • Those of us who wish to help students on a more individual basis can help by reading to students, reading with students, and letting students read to us.
  • BBS: Although it’s taken some time to see an increase in the type of fiction available to young African American readers, we are seeing it. However, there are some who feel that offering a “Black” Gossip Girls could have a negative impact on literature for young African American readers. As more commercial and trendy books feature Black characters, where do you see the state of YA fiction for young Black readers in five or ten years?
  • I would hope that young Black readers would demand quality. We so often stoop to the lowest common denominator, like purchasing music which denigrates our women in the name of culture.
  • BBS: You have the Hazelwood High trilogy and the Jericho trilogy. What attracts you to trilogies?
  • I did the first trilogy by accident. I wrote Tears of a Tiger, and it ended up being quite successful.
  • BBS: What is the release date for Just Another Hero?
  • Just Another Hero should be out in late May or early June.
  • BBS: Your next release is Sassy. It looks like a middle grade novel. Do you enjoy writing one over the other when it comes to MG and YA? Why or why no preference?
  • Sassy is geared to grades 3-4-5. Since I have the very successful books that feature young Black males in the six Ziggy books, I decided to focus on the younger girls in the Sassy books.
  • BBS: When the fatigue sets in, the deadlines loom large what keeps you writing?
  • I love this. Writing makes me happy. It’s not a job—it’s a passion. I’m very blessed.
  • BBS: If you had one wish for young African American readers, what would it be?
  • Read all the time. Read for pleasure and read for knowledge.
  • Kaylee S on 02 May 11
     
    Sharon Draper winnings
Lindsay Thompson

» Blog Archive » PREY Named to "Young Adults' Choices 2010″ Booklist - 0 views

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cjhs author mcdaniel lurlene

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  • My novel, PREY, has been chosen as part of the International Reading Association’s Young Adults’ Choices 2010 booklist!
  • les on the list
  • Here’s the official letter from the IRA, as well as a link to all the book tit
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  • The fully annotated list will be published in the November issue of the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy.
  • Lindsay Thompson on 04 May 11
     
    Lurlene's book Prey was chosen to be part as the International Reading Association's Young Adults' Choices 2010 book list!
autumn holder

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cjhs author margaret haddix

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      Carly Felty on 06 May 11
       
      This has a lot of great facts about Margaret Haddix!! Read on!!
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      autumn holder on 12 May 11
       
      i read it does i love it!!!!(:
  • WHERE I GREW UP
  •  BIRTHPLACE
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  •  MOTHER’S OCCUPATION:
  •  FATHER’S OCCUPATIO
  •  BIRTHDATE:
  • IBLINGS
  •  WHERE I WENT TO COLLEGE:
  • • WHAT I STUDIED
  • • JOBS I HELD BEFORE MY FIRST BOOK WAS PUBLISHED:
  • • PLACES I’VE LIVED AS AN ADULT
  •  WHERE I LIVE NOW:
  •  MARRIED:
  • • HUSBAND’S NAM
  • • HUSBAND’S OCCUPATION:
  •  CHILDREN:
  •  CHILDREN’S NAMES:
  • • HOBBIES
  •  FIRST BOOK PUBLISHED:
  •  DATE OF FIRST BOOK PUBLICATION:
  • • NUMBER OF BOOKS WRITTEN:
  • WHY I WRITE (
  • • WHY I WRITE
  • • ADVICE I GIVE KIDS
  • autumn holder on 12 May 11
     
    awesome information about Margaret haddix
William Reynolds Guerra

Rick Riordan answers your questions | Children's books | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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rick CJHS

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  • Rick Riordan answers all your questions
  • Groovy Druv: What is it like being a famous author?
  • ess: Why did you choose Poseidon out of all the gods to be Percy Jackson's father?
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  • Hanna: Why did you choose to make Percy Jackson have ADHD and dyslexia? and I know you were a teacher before you became a full time writer but did you ever share any of your books with your students before they were published?
  • Penguin: Why did you choose to write about ancient gods that have adapted to the modern world? and Do you like the Egyptian or the Greek gods better?
  • Anna: If you could be a Greek god, which one would you be and why?
  • Eaven: Who is your favourite character from the Percy jackson series?
  • Pedro: Will there be any mortal, in training, primary characters that uses magic (eg a disciple) that is NOT in the Houseof Life and is NOT a host for any god, in the second and third books of the Kane Chronicles?
  • Evie: What inspired you to come up with the idea of Jason Grace being Thaila's brother?
  • Yasmin: Is there going to be more of Lou Ellen in the rest of the books? If not, what's her story?
Emily=) bowles

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CJHS ELA Author Talk R.L. Stine

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      Emily=) bowles on 05 May 11
       
      The 1st Fear Street book
  • Emily=) bowles on 05 May 11
     
    first book
  • Sam Hughes on 06 May 11
     
    funny I'm reading that book
Shelby Tomlinson

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airheads meg cabot

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    Airhead book Trailer
nick wood

harry mazer > Compare Discount Book Prices & Save up to 90% > ISBNS.net - 0 views

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    harry mazer books
Nicole Hicks

Rick Riordan's latest book: Throne of Fire, to launch at Princeton Barnes & Noble May 3 at 6pm - 0 views

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rick riordan cjhs author

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  • Nicole Hicks on 18 Apr 11
     
    This talks about a new book coming out by Rick Riordan.
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