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Met Any Good Authors Lately? Classroom author visits can happen via Skype (here's a list of those who do it for free)

Classroom author visits can happen via Skype (here’s a list of those who do this for free)

By Kate Messner, 08/01/2009

Illustration by Marc Rosenthal.

At 7:25 am on the last day of school, five avid fifth-grade readers hustle into the library of Chamberlin School in South Burlington, VT. They shrug off backpacks and pull out advance copies of The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z, my middle-grade novel about a Vermont girl who’s convinced her school leaf collection project is ruining her [...]

Interview with Lois Lowry, Margaret A. Edwards Award Winner

The Edwards Award-winner talks about The Giver;s controversial past and, yes, its enigmatic ending

By Anita Silvey

Who would’ve guessed that the author of a sci-fi masterpiece would live in a Federal Colonial house with a picket fence? But then again, it’s never wise to second-guess Lois Lowry. In the early ’90s, in a radical departure from her previous 20 novels for young readers, Lowry wrote The Giver (1993), the tale of a futuristic society that appears to have everything under control, [...]