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Spring 2014 Flying Starts: Brandy Colbert
In July 2011, three days after being laid off from a job in Chicago, Brandy Colbert got the call she’d been waiting for—Tina Wexler of ICM was on the line, offering to be her literary agent, representing the novel that would become her YA debut.
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Spring 2014 Flying Starts: Anne Blankman
While on maternity leave in 2010, Anne Blankman, a public librarian in York County, Va., found herself craving a particular kind of read.
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Obituary: Nancy Garden
Author and activist Nancy Garden, most widely known for her groundbreaking YA novel "Annie on My Mind" died on June 23 of a heart attack. She was 76.
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Chris Weitz Takes On New Role as YA Author
Only teens survive the mysterious illness that wipes out most of the population of a post-apocalyptic New York City in "The Young World," the first installment of a YA trilogy by film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor Chris Weitz.
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James Patterson Donates Books to NYC Middle Graders
Reaffirming his advocacy of children's literacy, James Patterson announced on Monday that he is offering every sixth grader in the New York City public school system a free copy of "Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life."
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Great Expectations: An Interactive Workshop with Richard Peck
Veteran children's book author Richard Peck offered candid insight into the writing process during a workshop held June 10 at the Anthroposophical Society in New York City.
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Q & A with Ashley Bryan
At 90, Ashley Bryan is as full of energy as the groups of schoolchildren who throng through his studio.
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R.J. Palacio Fulfills Michigan Girl's Make-a-Wish Dream
Through Make-a-Wish Michigan, R.J. Palacio visited nine-year-old Hailey Bretzius at her school so that the "Wonder" author could teach her fellow students about kindness and caring.
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BEA 2014: The Illustrators' Studio Crawl: A Photo Essay
With booksellers from all over the country gathering in New York City for BEA, what better time for the ABA and the CBC to organize a tour of the studios of children's book illustrators?
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Charlotte Zolotow Remembered
Family, friends, and colleagues of Charlotte Zolotow gathered to celebrate the author and editor's lifetime of contributions to the children's literary world.
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BEA 2014: Booksellers and Illustrators Connect During Studio Crawl
On Wednesday, May 28, booksellers toured 21 children's book illustrators' studios in Manhattan and Brooklyn, in the second annual such crawl.
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BEA 2014: Rachel Renée Russell: Tales from a Not-So-Glam Author
“We’re working really hard to keep Nikki the girl next door,” Rachel Renée Russell insists, while describing the middle schooler’s latest dorky adventure in Dork Diaries 7: Tales from a Not-So-Glam TV Star.
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BEA 2014: John Green: Book to Screen
All that hard work promoting The Fault in Our Stars—which started three years ago with John Green signing pages to be bound into the 150,000 copies of the novel’s first print run from Dutton—has paid off.
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BEA 2014: Stan Lee: From Comic Book Legend To Children’s Author
With X-Men: Days of Future Past and The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man 2 taking top box-office this month, one might presume that the co-creator of all these classic superheros is sitting by a pool somewhere sipping mai tais.
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BEA 2014: Carl Hiaasen: Never Be Boring
This morning at BookCon, 10–11 a.m., Room 1E07, two literary stars from south of the Mason-Dixon line, Carl Hiaasen and John Grisham, are in conversation with each other for the first time.
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BEA 2014: R.L. Stine Is in the House!!!
The world’s bestselling children’s author, R.L. Stine, is here today to sign books in the Autographing Area.
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BEA 2014: Paul O. Zelinsky: More Moose Shenanigans
In Moose’s debut outing, Z Is for Moose, written by Kelly Bingham and illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky, the impatient title character is not pleased when his friend Zebra selects Mouse—rather than the obvious (to him) choice of Moose—to represent the letter “M” in the alphabet.
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BEA 2014: Jacqueline Woodson: Remembering a Brown Girl’s Childhood
Even though Jacqueline Woodson’s latest release, Brown Girl Dreaming (Penguin/Paulsen, Aug.), is set during the 1960s and ’70s, its themes are still relevant today, especially after a controversy erupted last month over the lack of diversity in BookCon’s initial lineup of authors.
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BEA 2014: Meg Wolitzer: Venturing into YA Territory
Author of The Interestings, The Uncoupling, The Ten-Year Nap, and other acclaimed adult novels, as well as The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman for middle-graders, Meg Wolitzer makes her initial foray into YA fiction with Belzhar (Dutton, Sept.), which is set at a Vermont boarding school for emotionally fragile and highly intelligent teenagers.
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BEA 2014: Bruce Degen: Lessons on Friendship
For more than 35 years, Bruce Degen has successfully explored an impressive range of children’s book turf.
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