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Readergirlz
Readergirlz is an online book community that is an advocate for literacy in teenage girls. The site was founded on March 1, 2007 by Dia Calhoun, Janet Lee Carey, Lorie Ann Grover, and Justina Chen Headley. The site is a partner of the Young Adult Library Services Association The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), established in 1957, is a division of the American Library Association. YALSA is a national association of librarians, library workers and advocates whose mission is to expand the capacity of l .... Readergirlz hosts authors monthly for an exchange with teens and administers special literacy projects, including the support of Teen Read Week, the third week of October, and Support Teen Literature Day in April. Awards * $2,500 James Patterson PageTurner Organization Award * $2,500 National Book Foundation 2009 Innovations in Reading Prize Authors featured References External links * American book websites Internet properties established ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justina Chen Headley
Justina Chen (born 1968 in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania) is a Taiwanese-American fiction writer and executive communications consultant. She is best known for her young-adult fiction, especially ''North of Beautiful'' (2009), ''A Blind Spot for Boys'' (2014), ''Girl Overboard'' (2008), and ''Nothing but the Truth (and a few white lies)'' (2006). Background Chen was born in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania in 1968 to Taiwanese-American parents. She later graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford in Economics in only three years, where she also won the Dean's Award for Service. After graduating from Stanford, she worked as a marketing executive at Microsoft in Seattle before becoming a novelist and story consultant. Writing career After leaving Microsoft to pursue her writing career, Chen first wrote her first book, ''The Patch'' (2006). Her first Young Adult novel, ''Nothing But the Truth (and a few white lies)'', won one of the 2007 Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature. From 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Lee Carey
Janet Lee Carey (born January 11, 1954) is an American college professor who writes fantasy fiction for children and young adults. Her novels ''The Dragons of Noor'' (2010) won a Teens Read Too Gold Star Award for Excellence, ''Dragon's Keep'' (2007) won an ALA Best Books for Young adults, and ''Wenny Has Wings'' (2002) won the Mark Twain Award (2005). Personal life and background Carey was born in New York and was raised in Mill Valley, California. Carey moved to Seattle, Washington to be closer to her mother and stepfather, where she currently lives at Seattle, Washington. Carey is a very imaginative person and she finds herself daydreaming continuously throughout the day, which allows her to get into her "fantasy land" while writing. She considers herself a homebody who enjoys reading and spending time with family and friends. Many of Carey's novels involve an ordinary child doing heroic deeds. She believes all children need courage in order to develop into successful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristin Cashore
Kristin Cashore (born 1976) is an American young adult and fantasy writer, best known for the Graceling Realm series. Early life Cashore grew up in the Pennsylvania countryside, the second of four daughters. She has a bachelor's degree from Williams College. She received her master's degree in Children's Literature from the Center for the Study of Children's Literature at Simmons College in 2003. She has worked as a dog runner, a packer in a candy factory, an editorial assistant, a legal assistant, and a freelance writer. She writes her novels by hand. Literary career Her debut novel, ''Graceling'', was published in October 2008. The book was nominated for the Andre Norton and William C. Morris awards and earned a place on the Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year for 2008. Her second book, ''Fire'', was released in October 2009, and is described as being a 'prequel-ish companion book' to ''Graceling''. ''Fire'' received the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Book Award. '' Bitterbl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharon Draper
Sharon Mills Draper (born August 21, 1948) is an American children's writer, professional educator, and the 1997 National Teacher of the Year. She is a five-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for books about the young and adolescent African-American experience. She is known for her Hazelwood and Jericho series, '' Copper Sun,'' '' Double Dutch'', '' Out of My Mind'' and ''Romiette and Julio''. Personal life Draper was born in Cleveland, Ohio to Victor D. Mills and Catherine Gachett Mills. She has two younger siblings. Growing up, she played the piano and loved to read. By eleven she had read nearly every children's book in her local library and was given a special library card in order to be allowed to check out adult books. Draper earned her Bachelor's Degree, majoring in English, from Pepperdine University and her Master's of Arts degree in English from Miami University of Ohio in 1974. Post-graduation, she began teaching in Cincinnati public schools. During this tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Book Of A Thousand Days
''Book of a Thousand Days'' is a 2007 young adult fantasy novel by Shannon Hale. It is based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Maid Maleen. Plot summary Dashti, a mucker from steppes of the Eight Realms, begins a diary as she looks for a job after her mother dies of illness. Eventually, she finds and accepts a position as the new maid of Lady Saren, the youngest child of the lord of Titor's Garden. Saren has defied her father's declaration that she will marry Lord Khasar of Thoughts of Under and revealed that she is engaged to the young Khan Tegus of Song for Evela. To tame his daughter, Saren's father shuts her and Dashti, the only maid willing to accompany Saren, in a tower far away from his city and surrounded by guards. He claims he will only release them after seven years, or if Saren will relent and marry Khasar. While isolated from the rest of the world, Dashti realizes the fragility of Saren's mind and heart and does her best to soothe Saren through stories and songs. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shannon Hale
Shannon may refer to: People * Shannon (given name) * Shannon (surname) * Shannon (American singer), stage name of singer Shannon Brenda Greene (born 1958) * Shannon (South Korean singer), British-South Korean singer and actress Shannon Arrum Williams (born 1998) * Shannon, intermittent stage name of English singer-songwriter Marty Wilde (born 1939) * Claude Shannon (1916-2001) was American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as a "father of information theory" Places Australia * Shannon, Tasmania, a locality * Hundred of Shannon, a cadastral unit in South Australia * Shannon, a former name for the area named Calomba, South Australia since 1916 * Shannon River (Western Australia) Canada * Shannon, New Brunswick, a community * Shannon, Quebec, a city * Shannon Bay, former name of Darrell Bay, British Columbia * Shannon Falls, a waterfall in British Columbia Ireland * River Shannon, the longest river in Ireland ** Shannon Cave, a subterranean section of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On Pointe
''On Pointe'' is a children's novel about an aspiring ballet dancer by Lorie Ann Grover, first published in 2004. It was nominated for the 2006 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award. Plot summary This story is told in free verse. The novel centers on 16-year-old Clare, who has dreamed of becoming a dancer all her life and has worked hard to achieve her dreams. She hopes to be selected for City Ballet, a program for very skilled dancers, although there are only sixteen positions available. After a growth spurt, she is judged too tall for professional ballet and advised to take a dance class for adult amateurs. It seems her dream is crushed, but when her grandfather has a stroke, losing the ability to talk and move his right side, her perspective alters. Reception '' School Library Journal'' said that the novel was "finely written", and commented of the main character that "the teen's voice rings true". '' Publishers Weekly'' described it as "well-wrought" with "an a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikki Grimes
Nikki Grimes (born October 20, 1950) is an American author of books written for children and young adults, as well as a poet and journalist. Background and career Grimes was born in Harlem, New York. In a conversation with a Reading Is Fundamental interviewer, she stated: "Books were my survival tools. They were how I got by, and how I coped with things. Books carried me away." She has been a guest lecturer at international schools in Sweden, Tanzania, China, and Russia. She has written articles for magazines such as ''Today's Christian Woman'' and ''Essence''. Her interests and talents are diverse and include photography, fiber art, and beading. Grimes currently resides in Corona, California, and continues to write poetry and books for children and young adults. She is on the board of directors for the National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance. Her work has earned her honors and recognition from a number of prestigious organizations. Her novel ''Bronx Masquerade'' was name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Northern Light
''A Northern Light'', or ''A Gathering Light'' in the U.K., is an American historical novel for young adults, written by Jennifer Donnelly and published by Harcourt in 2003. Set in northern Herkimer County, New York in 1906, it is based on the murder of Grace Brown case —the basis also for ''An American Tragedy'' by Theodore Dreiser (1925). In the U.K., Bloomsbury published an edition within the calendar year, entitled ''A Gathering Light'', and Donnelly won the 2003 Carnegie Medal, recognizing the year's outstanding book by a British author for children or young adults."The Carnegie Medal: Recent Winners" . CILIP. Retrieved 2008-02-02. For the 70th anniversary of the Medal a few years later it was named one of the top ten winning works, selected by a panel to comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Donnelly
Jennifer Donnelly (born August 16, 1963) is an American writer of young adult fiction best known for the historical novel '' A Northern Light''. ''A Northern Light'' was published as ''A Gathering Light'' in the U.K. There, it won the 2003 Carnegie Medal, recognizing the year's outstanding children's book. For the 70th anniversary of the Medal a few years later, it was named one of the top ten winning works, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for a public election of the all-time favorite. Similarly, it was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time in 2015. Early life Donnelly was born in Port Chester, New York. Her paternal great-grandparents immigrated from Dublin, Ireland to New York state and settled in the Adirondack region where her grandmother worked at a hotel on Big Moose Lake, the setting for ''A Northern Light''. Donnelly's own childhood was divided between the communities of Rye and Port Leyden, New York. Donnelly attended the Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Just Listen (novel)
''Just Listen'' (2006) is a young adult novel written by author Sarah Dessen. It is her seventh published novel. Plot summary Annabel Greene is a girl who has it all—at least, that's how it seems on TV commercials. Annabel's life is far from perfect. Her friendship with her best friends Clarke and Sophie ended bitterly. This left her alone and friendless at the beginning of a new school year. Her sister Whitney's eating disorder is weighing down the entire family, and Annabel fears speaking out about her past and her lack of enthusiasm for modeling. Annabel and Clarke were best friends before meeting Sophie. When Sophie joined their friend group, she bullied Clarke about her allergies and not using makeup. One night, Annabel ditched Clarke to hang out with a boy, and Clarke didn't speak to her again. Later on, Annabel was sexually assaulted by Sophie's boyfriend Will Cash. Sophie walked in and thought Annabel was fooling around with Will. In the midst of her isolation, she mee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Dessen
Sarah Dessen (born June 6, 1970) is an American novelist who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Born in Illinois, Dessen graduated from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Her first book, ''That Summer'', was published in 1996. She has since published more than a dozen other novels and novellas. In 2017, Dessen won the Margaret Edwards Award for some of her work. Two of her books were adapted into the 2003 film ''How to Deal''. Early life, education and personal life Dessen was born in Evanston, Illinois, on June 6, 1970, to Alan and Cynthia Dessen, who were both professors at the University of North Carolina, teaching Shakespearean literature and classics. As a teenager, Dessen was very shy and quiet. She became involved with a 21-year-old when she was 15 but cut all contact with him shortly after. In a piece penned for Seventeen, Dessen wrote "for many years afterward, I took total blame for everything that happened between me and T. After all, I was a bad kid. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
