Tag: fiction
group name: childrenslibrary
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April 09, 2007 07:01 PM EDT --
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction
For ages 9 to 14 years
From The Book of the City of Ember :
" It is the only light in the dark world. Beyond . . .
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September 16, 2007 09:59 AM EDT --
With apologies to Judith Viorst.
Rewritten but originally written in 2006. Presented now for Back to School and Back to Pre-School.
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May 23, 2007 09:25 AM EDT --
Run to the mountain, the pond, to Walden: run on two-year old legs that crouch in the sand as we laugh and scoop sand-buckets for sand castles. Run fast before time steals, shifts in my mind's eye. . . .
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April 17, 2007 07:33 PM EDT --
I have the deepest respect for M. Night Shyamalan. To be where he is at this stage of his life is just incredible to me (hell, I'm 2 years older than him). I think his story, his . . .
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September 21, 2007 08:44 PM EDT --
Canadian author Tish Cohen and author of debut novel, Town House Town House by Tish Cohen - a book review (soon to be a movie, filmed in Boston), has published her first young adult (children's) . . .
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January 23, 2008 12:38 PM EST --
At what age did you or will you stop buying children's picture books for your children or grandchildren and start buying them chapter books?
I stopped when my kids were ten years old. . . .
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March 31, 2007 01:50 AM EDT --
I have all the facts but I cannot reveal them. The truth is this: A friend of my daughter will soon be publishing her first novel with a major international publishing house.
The girl has been working . . .
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February 26, 2008 04:30 AM EST --
Do you have a favorite summer vacation spot where you return each year? Do you have treasured childhood memories of summer vacation spots that even now cause your heart to warm? If I could . . .
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August 17, 2007 09:41 AM EDT --
(No, not THE E.B. White. I have the fortune of sharing the name, or at least initials, of one of the greatest writers of all time. I've used it for good and evil purposes. When I . . .
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February 01, 2008 07:10 PM EST --
She came to me in a flurry of matted fur and rain. I didn't know why she came to me, but she came. I watched as she darted around looking to and fro digging in her pouch with a frantic urgency. . . .
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June 01, 2007 02:21 PM EDT --
St.John the Levitator’s Bluff
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September 06, 2007 11:36 PM EDT --
In 19th century England, Marak, the King of the Goblins chooses Kate, the elder of two orphan girls, to be his bride and queen. At first, Kate is terrified and repulsed by the monster who is stalking . . .
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September 07, 2007 03:21 AM EDT --
Cusi, a precocious child of the ancient Inca culture, had a strange upbringing. His guardian, an old man named Chuto, was a llama herder living in the Andes mountain range near Cuzco, Peru. At the beginning . . .
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September 02, 2007 01:13 AM EDT --
Raquel Falcone is killed when she steps off a curb and is struck by a car. In short, powerful chapters, she is remembered by family, friends, classmates, and those who witnessed the accident. Through . . .
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November 04, 2007 04:21 PM EST --
It’s hard to be a teenager…trying to fit in with the crowd while also trying to figure out who you are and what you want to be. But when you are seemingly invisible to the society . . .
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June 09, 2008 11:49 AM EDT --
If there was no picture, you would have thought this article was about nature, snakes in particular. Well it is to a degree, human nature. How one writer supports another. As a writer . . .
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June 14, 2008 10:17 PM EDT --
Last week in one of my Yahoo Groups, one after another member offered suggestions to a writer friend asking for help in choosing a title for her new book. Everyone's suggestions were great. . . .
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December 19, 2007 04:37 PM EST --
As I told my book rep yesterday, I am beginning to understand the life of a writer. I keep getting these messages that say things like "Does not accept Authors as friends". I answer . . .
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February 11, 2008 11:02 AM EST --
...Then head over over to my blog, The Dark Phantom , to read my story, "The Painting", and be eligible to win a box of yummy Belgian chocolates! All you have to do is answer the question at . . .
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November 05, 2007 11:46 AM EST --
I need the name for a pet wolf that is in one of my new stories, “Wolfie of Robin Falls.” This wolf is involved in a legend about a wolf that saves a stagecoach from being held . . .
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