![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I even read them the PW article that bookstores and reviewers aren’t even getting ARCs. They know I’ll be at the Bologna Book Fair and seem to think I will be able to return with MOCKINGJAY. I think I’ve lost a little clout with them. My girls and I are totally into THE HUNGER GAMES right now and can’t wait for book 3. The last book of Pullman’s HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy always makes me cry when Will and Lyra have to part. ![]() I think KIRA-KIRA by Cynthia Kadohata is a perfect book for so many reasons – voice, story, truth, the way every character in the family has changed by the end of the book and most of all because I want to jump into the pages and play with Katie and Lynn during happy times and comfort them during sad times. I have so many favorite authors! I hesitate to make a list because I’m afraid I’ll leave someone off. In addition to being an amazing writer, he is a talented speaker and a gifted teacher. Markus Zusak came to Munich and did a one-day writers’ workshop for the SCBWI chapter there. I wrote my first poem when I was seven and never stopped writing. Otherwise, Great Oaks School will really be the end of the line. To get home he must follow the rules, face the past, and tell the truth. He is sent to Great Oaks, a school for troubled youth that is run like a prison. THE END OF THE LINE, Holiday House, Spring 2011 ![]()
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