Denise Vega

Denise Vega is an author of young-adult novels and of children's picture books and a faculty member at Regis University. Her debut novel, '' Click Here : (To Find Out How I Survived Seventh Grade)'', was released in December 2007 by Little, Brown.

Education

She has a bachelor's degree in film and television from the University of California, Los Angeles and a master of education degree from Harvard University.

Career

In the 1990s, Vega, who lives in Denver, Colorado, wrote how-to HTML, word-processing, and internet help books for kids, including, ''Learning The Internet For Kids: A Voyage of Internet Treasures'' and ''Learning Word Processing For Kids'', released by DDC Publishing.

Her debut novel, ''Click Here'', which was written from the point of view of a seventh-grader, was included in the 2012 London Book Fair.

Her other works include short stories and poems, such as "Jacinta's Zoo" in ''Spider'' magazine in April 2004, the poem "Tortillas" for ''Ladybug'' magazine in July 2004, "Eva's Eggflip" for ''Highlights for Children Magazine'' in December 2003 — where was selected as Author of the Month for the "Eva's Egglip" story, "Abuelita's Ear" for ''Pockets'' magazine in March 2002.

She also has written science-related articles for Discovery Channel School's series of Student Activity Books.

Her first effort at writing a book, titled ''The Laziness Of Peter Rabbit'', was written when she was 12 years old for her younger sister, Cheryl, who was six. The book was made of construction paper, bound with yarn, and used her own illustrations.

''303 Magazine'' described her work as including "characters on their path towards adulthood from two of her books, ''Rock On'' and ''Click Here''." ''Rock On'', released in 2012 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. The characters in ''Access Denied (and other eighth grade error messages,)'' cope with adolescence.

Vega teaches a master's fine arts creating writing court at Regis University.

Reception

''School Library Journal'', in its March 2017 "Popular Picks" review of ''If Your Monster Won't Go to Bed'', wrote, "A superb example of picture book collaboration, this appealing title will be popular in most collections."

''Kirkus Reviews'' wrote in its review of ''Click This'', "AOL-speak is too occasional and therefore jarring, but the blog segments and first-person narration are immediate and funny."

''Publishers Weekly'' reviewed five of her titles, including ''Click This'', ''The Secret Blog of Raisin Rodriguez'', ''Rock On'', ''Access Denied'', ''If Your Monster Won’t Go to Bed'' and ''Grandmother, Have the Angels Come?'' (illustrated by Erin Eitter Kono,), commenting that her young "readers will be too busy giggling to go to sleep."

Awards

In 2006, Vega's ''Click Here'' made New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age's Best Books list.

In 2008, ''Click Here'' was a Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award finalist.

''Rock On'' was a 2013 Colorado Book Awards Finalist.

References

External links

Denise Vega's official website

Denise Vega's blog

Penguin-Random House's author page for Denise Vega

Hatchette Book Group's author page for Denise Vegas

WorldCat bibliography

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American writers of young adult literature
Living people
Harvard Graduate School of Education alumni
UCLA Film School alumni
Writers from Colorado
Year of birth missing (living people)