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Gary Raham has two new educational
workbooks out in 2005 from Mark Twain Media/Carson-Dellosa Publishing: "Science
Tutor: Chemistry" for grades 7 and up, and "Jumpstarters
for Science," grades 4-8 and up. Three more books are under
contract in the Science Tutor series
in life science, science, and physical science. Raham has also been
working with Wellington Junior High students in 7th, 8th, and 9th
grades utilizing ideas in his book, Teaching Science
Fact with Science Fiction (Teacher Ideas Press, 2004).
Teacher Vicky Jordan was awarded a three-year grant to fund the project.
The author also found out he won a Colorado Authors' League award
for his article, "The Rovers Have Landed," in the April/May
2004 issue of Writing! (a Weekly Reader
publication for high schools).
After Becky Clark Cornwell returned
home from the Pikes Peak Writers conference in April, an e-mail was
awaiting telling she’d won second place in the Writing Smarter
(TX) contest for Zapped--The Old West,
a humorous middle grade time travel adventure. She was even happier
than a pig eating pancakes, though, because at the PPWC she had two
excellent readings with lots of audience (and editor!) laughter AND
she successfully pitched the concept to an editor for Knopf, who
asked for the entire manuscript. Lots of good karma that weekend!
"Munching Mowers," a short nonfiction article by Cheryl
Reifsnyder, Ph. D., was scheduled to appear
in the July Highlights for Children. Highlights also
just purchased the nonfiction article, "Prairie Dog Talk," and
a short craft piece titled "Welcome the Wind." And she
received 3rd place in the children's division of the Pikes Peak
Paul Gillette Memorial Writing Competition for the mid-grade fantasy
novel, The Last Violin.
Highlights for Children has awarded
its Arts Feature of the Year engraved pewter plate award to Claudia
Cangilla McAdam for her April 2004 article, "Taking
His Best Shots," a profile of renowned Colorado nature photographer
John Fielder.
Paula Obering had
a poem called "Pass the Salad” in the June issue of Ladybug
Magazine.
Vickie Leigh Krudwig is pleased
to announce that her book, Searching for Chipeta-The
Story of a Ute and her People, received the 2005 Mountains
and Plains Booksellers Association Award for Best Children's Chapter
Book. In addition, Krudwig just released three new books, We
are the Noochew-A Brief History of the Ute People and their Colorado
Connection, Keeper of the Pipe,
and Boy Who Slept with Bears.
Laura Resau just
got a contract with Delacorte for her young adult novel, What
the Moon Saw (publication scheduled for summer 2006).
It's about a 14-year-old American girl who spends the summer in a
village in Oaxaca, Mexico, with her grandmother, a shaman. "Drops
of Wax," published in Cricket Magazine in
August 2004 was named a runner-up in the SCBWI Magazine Merit Awards.
Claudia Mills will be spending
two weeks this summer as a writer-in-residence at the Hollins University
graduate program in children's literature. She will also be reading
hundreds of books as a judge of this year's National Book Award in
Young People's Literature; in November she'll fly to New York for
the final deliberations and black-tie banquet. Her newest book, Makeovers
by Marcia, came out this spring from Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Julie Anne Peters' new YA novel, Far
From Xanadu (Megan Tingley Books, Little, Brown
and Co.), is currently out and about. (It's actually facing out
at Barnes & Noble.) Peters was invited by the Children's Book
Council to be a featured speaker at BookExpo America in New York
City in June.
Nancy Dawson's story, "Seacoast
Secret," will be published in the August edition of Cricket
Magazine. In her story, a 14-year-old girl discovers
the existence of California sea otters at a time most people thought
the species had been hunted to extinction.
Eileen Ross’ latest
picture book, Nellie and the Bandit,
came out in May from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. The illustrator
is Erin E. Kono. This is the story of a feisty little gal in the
Old West who outsmarts an outlaw and saves the day.
Phyllis J. Perry won two awards
at the May annual banquet of the Colorado Authors' League. Her award
for Book Length Fiction--Children's was given for her Fribble
Mouse Library Mystery series title, The
Secrets of the Rock. She received an award for best
Short Fiction--Children's/Young Adult for her magazine article published
in Library Sparks Magazine, "Fribble
Mouse Goes on a Library Treasure Hunt."
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