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Teri Lesesne has included Soul Enchilada in her Texas Library Association presentation, “Best New YA Books.” It’s, erm, slide #55. But who’s counting? You’ll want to see the whole list. Speaking of TLA–a big howdy to everybody who’s lucky to be attending. One of my Greenwillow authormates, Jody Feldman, will be signing in the HarperCollins booth. Drop by...
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Announcing FreeBookStimulusPlan.com Wanda Jewell has a problem. After serving nearly 20 years as Executive Director of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) she is overrun with books. All kind of books; finished copies and galleys, advance reading copies, advance reader editions, paperback and hardbound, slip-covered and not, limited editions, signed and unsigned, personalized...
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Greenwillow Books has released a Soul Enchilada reading group guide that is perfect for classroom discussion, small reading groups, and library literature circles, as well as book clubs. I think Soul would make a terrific read for Mother-Daughter book clubs. This is one of my favorite questions: “Bug says in chapter 6 that “poor folks get used to being in danger,” and she also says that...
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Interested checking out the buzz around Soul Enchilada, the novel that Kirkus, Horn Book, PW, and Booklist have raved about?* Look Inside now: *Sorry for the self-congratulatory post, but everyone keeps telling me that I cant be self-effacing about the book, just...
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