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How has volunteerism impacted you–what’s your story?

April 12, 2015 2 Comments

Hap­py Nation­al Vol­un­teer Week! Accord­ing to the Points of Light web­site, “Nation­al Vol­un­teer Week, April 12–18, 2015, is about… tak­ing action and encour­ag­ing indi­vid­u­als and their respec­tive com­mu­ni­ties to be at the cen­ter of social change – dis­cov­er­ing and active­ly demon­strat­ing their col­lec­tive pow­er to make a dif­fer­ence.” That sounds a whole lot like the mes­sage behind Be a Change­mak­er, don’t you think?

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Interview with author Janet Lee Carey

April 7, 2015 No Comments

Despite some recent posts about fic­tion pic­ture book New Shoes and its author, Susan Lynn Mey­ers, I typ­i­cal­ly try to stick to posts about non­fic­tion books and authors on this blog. I’m break­ing that self-imposed rule yet again, how­ev­er, because I’m thrilled to host my friend and agent-sis­ter, the amaz­ing author Janet Lee Carey, on her blog tour for her upcoming

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Announcing the book giveaway winners!

April 5, 2015 No Comments

A cou­ple of weeks ago I announced give­aways here and on Goodreads for both Be a Change­mak­er and Emmanuel’s Dream. We have win­ners! From my list of newslet­ter sub­scribers, cho­sen by Random.org, the win­ners are… Jim McGin­ley wins a signed copy of Be a Change­mak­er! I swear it was com­plete­ly ran­dom, but this is just so per­fect. Jim was one of

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Interview with author Susan Lynn Meyer

April 3, 2015 2 Comments

I recent­ly post­ed a review of a fic­tion pic­ture book called NEW SHOES. I love the book so much, and today I’m thrilled to wel­come the author, Susan Lynn Mey­er, to the blog! Susan was kind enough to answer a few of my ques­tions. I hope you’ll enjoy get­ting to know her a lit­tle bet­ter. I know I did! LT: Welcome,

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Nonfiction Monday Review: DOABLE by Deborah Reber

March 30, 2015 No Comments

In this well-orga­nized, easy-to-digest non­fic­tion book for teen girls, Reber employs her train­ing as a life coach as well as her exten­sive work with teen girls to lay out an eight-step plan for read­ers to achieve what­ev­er it is they want to tack­le in life. The steps include defin­ing the goal, defend­ing against obsta­cles, devel­op­ing sup­port sys­tems, deter­min­ing what success

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Review: NEW SHOES by Susan Lynn Meyer

March 21, 2015 No Comments

It’s not easy to write a pic­ture book for young kids that tack­les a tough sub­ject in an age-appro­pri­ate way. And it’s even hard­er to do so while still being enter­tain­ing. NEW SHOES by Susan Lynn Mey­er does all of that and more, and it does it so very beau­ti­ful­ly. Pub­lish­er’s sum­ma­ry: Set in the South dur­ing the time of

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MY DOG IS THE BEST cover

Let’s celebrate with a giveaway (or four)!

March 18, 2015 2 Comments

I’m so hap­py about the recent acco­lades my books have received that I’ve decid­ed to host not just one giveaway–but FOUR! To cel­e­brate the fact that BE A CHANGEMAKER: HOW TO START SOMETHING THAT MATTERS was a final­ist for the Cybils awards, I’ll be giv­ing away a signed copy of the paper­back edi­tion on Goodreads, here: Goodreads Book Give­away Be

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A Starred Review for Emmanuel’s Dream!

March 5, 2015 No Comments

Emmanuel’s Dream received its first starred review, and it’s from School Library Jour­nal! They called the book, “a tri­umph.” And they also said, “This pow­er­ful and win­ning pic­ture book tells the sto­ry of a young man over­com­ing the odds.” and “This uplift­ing account will res­onate with read­ers and sup­ple­ment glob­al and cul­tur­al stud­ies.” You can read the full review here! And, just for

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Teaching Is a Work of Heart

Authors LOVE Teachers, with a HUGE book #giveaway!

February 14, 2015 No Comments

Hap­py Valen­tine’s Day to teach­ers and teacher/librarians!   I’ve nev­er been very much into Valen­tine’s Day, but when Lyn­da Mul­laly Hunt invit­ed me to par­tic­i­pate in this awe­some book give­away for teach­ers, I jumped at the chance! Authors do love teach­ers, and gen­er­al­ly, teach­ers love books, so it’s a per­fect oppor­tu­ni­ty for us to show a lit­tle love to those who

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Fan mail for Emmanuel’s Dream

January 12, 2015 No Comments

It’s always a treat to receive an email like this from a par­ent: Last night I read your book to my younger daugh­ter.… She loved the book, and decid­ed it was her new favorite and she want­ed to take it to school when it was her stu­dent spot­light week. Today she and [her broth­er] were fight­ing over it in the

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