Guess what? I've been invited to write the foreword to Harper Perennial's re-issue of EMILY OF DEEP VALLEY by Maud Hart Lovelace (coming October 2010).
Yippee! Secret Keeper is shortlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award in the Young Adult category!
Guess who's speaking at the 2010 BookExpo America's Children's Breakfast in New York on May 26th with Richard Peck, Cory Doctorow, and Master of Ceremonies, Sarah Ferguson? Gulp. You got it. Me.
I'm also one of the keynote speakers at the annual conference of the Washington Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators in Seattle.
Bamboo People, my new novel about two boys set along the Thai-Burma border, releases July 2010 from Charlesbridge and is a Junior Library Guild Selection.
My First Daughter books and Secret Keeper are going to be published in India by HarperCollins India!
Announcing the results of the Seventh Annual Fire Escape's teen poetry and writing contests!
I'm helping organize Kids Heart Authors Day, an indie-author-illustrator Valentine's Day party bringing 120 authors and illustrators into 43 different bookstores on 2/14/09.
I'll be offering "Straight Talk About Writing Race" at NESCBWI's annual Spring conference on April 24, 2009.
Lots of January and February book launch events for Secret Keeper on the west coast (San Francisco and Seattle), and a February party at Newtonville Books in Massachusetts.
I'm presenting Books Between Cultures at YALSA's inaugural Young Adult Literature Symposium in Nashville, Tennessee November 7-9, 2008.
I'm delighted to announce the results of my sixth annual teen poetry and short fiction contests. Congratulations to all the winners, and thanks to everyone who entered.
Wednesday, April 16th:
I'll be talking about "Books Between Cultures" from 12-12:50 at the Texas Library Association Convention, (Program CPE#356 in room D 171/173 sponsored by the Texas Association of School Librarians) followed by book signings on the exhibit floor, first at the Penguin booth #1701 from 2 – 3, and then at the Author Autographing Area with Charlesbridge from 3-4. Stop by and say hi.
Thursday, April 17th:
I'll be celebrating Operation Teen Book Drop at the Winchester Author Festival in Winchester, Massachusetts.
Friday, April 18th:
If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, you can catch me on KGO's View From The Bay from 3-4 p.m. PST (streaming online live here), where I'll be chatting about growing up between cultures and how stories kept me balanced.
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We readergirlz are collaborating with YALSA and teen book publishers to pull off Operation Teen Book Drop, giving away new books to over 10,000 teen patients in twenty children's hospitals across the country.
Paper Tigers' blog celebrated International Mother Language Day by featuring my novel Rickshaw Girl, saying it "would make a great readaloud, especially for a mother and daughter to share." Librarian-blogger Cloudscome agreed, "highly recommend(ing) it for middle grade (8-10 year old) readers, as a read aloud, or a kid's book club book."
If you didn't make it to my book launch party on 2/3/08, here's a 3-minute snippet (to explain my wardrobe, it was Super Bowl Sunday and the Pats hadn't lost yet):
You can become a fan of the First Daughter books over at Facebook or get her widget on your blog:
The Fire Escape is delighted to announce the winners of the 2007 teen poetry contest and teen short fiction contest. Congratulations to the authors!
I'm invited to be part of the Summer Blog Blast Tour, and am interviewed here (Monday, June 18), and here (Wednesday, June 20), and here (Thursday, June 21).
