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Matt de la Pena is fight­ing the removal of his books from class­rooms in Ari­zona directly, accord­ing to SLJ: “Author Matt de la Peña is tak­ing a more hands-on approach: he’s using his $1,000 speak­ing fee to pur­chase copies of his novel Mex­i­can White­Boy(Dela­corte, 2008) for the Tuc­son High Mag­net School, where he’s sched­uled to appear …

A Ver­mont prison inmate who makes sta­tionery and license plates has got­ten the best of the state police by adding the image of a pig to the state decal on their cruis­ers. Some­where in Ver­mont, there’s a tal­ented artist with a wicked sense of humor.  Too bad he’s in jail.

I am David Macin­nis Gill, author of the YA nov­els Invis­i­ble Sun, Black Hole Sun, and Soul Enchi­lada, all from Greenwillow/Harper Collins. This site has info about me, my books, book trail­ers, appear­ances, and con­tact info. It’s also home to my per­sonal blog, which is an eclec­tic mix of eclec­ti­cisms that I’ve col­lected over time.  Feel free to …

The news out of Hol­ly­wood yes­ter­day was that HUGO pulled in 11 Oscar nom­i­na­tions, includ­ing best direc­tor, art direc­tion, cin­e­matog­ra­phy, cos­tume design, film edit­ing, orig­i­nal music score, sound edit­ing, sound mix­ing, visual effects and adapted screen­play. Beyond that fact that I’m delighted that HUGO turned out so well, that Hol­ly­wood rec­og­nized a children’s book, and …