Gae Polisner is an American author of
young adult
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and crossover to adult novels. She is also a practicing family law attorney/mediator. She lives in
Long Island
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with her husband and two sons.
Books
* ''2013 The Pull of Gravity''
* 2015 ''The Summer of Letting Go''
* 2017 ''The Memory of Things''
* 2018 ''In Sight of Stars''
*2020 ''Jack Kerouac Is Dead to Me''
*2020, ''Seven Clues to Home'', with
Nora Raleigh Baskin
Awards and honors
* ''In Sight of Stars'' 2018, received a Booklist Starred Review, and is the winner of a 2018 AudioFile Earphones Award; Michael Crouch narrating.
* ''The Memory of Things'' won the 2019 Golden Archer Award, Senior Division, Wisconsin's Children's Choice book award, and was a 2017 Wisconsin State Reading List final selection, a finalist for the New York Library Association's Three Apples Book Award, and a finalist for the Pennsylvania Keystone to Reading Book Award. It was the recipient of a 2016 Nerdy Book Club Award for Best Young Adult fiction, and was named one of the Most Anticipated YA's of Fall/Winter 2016 by Barnes & Noble Teen Blog, one of the Best New Books for Teens by the Children's Book Review, one of the 15 Must-Read YA Books of Fall by Brightly.com, and one of the Buzzworthy Books of Summer by YABooks Central.
* ''The Summer of Letting Go'' was the winner of the 2014 Nerdy Book Club Award Best Young Adult Fiction 2014, and received the
Teen Ink
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Editor’s Badge of Approval.
* ''The Pull of Gravity'' was the winner of the 2011 Nerdy Book Club Award for Best YA Fiction; a nominee for the 2011
Yalsa
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Readers Choice award
and the 2011 CYBIL’s Award; included in the 2012
Bank Street College
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Best Children’s Fiction and 2011 Pennsylvania School Library Association’s List of Best YA Fiction lists; and a 2013-14 National Battle of the Books Pick.
* Her first manuscript, a 2008 piece of women's fiction titled ''The Jetty'', was a Top Semifinalist in the first ever 2008
Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest.
References
External links
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Writers from New York (state)
American young adult novelists
People from Long Island
American women lawyers
New York (state) lawyers
21st-century American women
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