Gator Book Chomp: Book Festival

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Thursday, May 15, 2014

CFTV Book Festival Piece Featuring Your Favorite Librarian! (I am your favorite librarian, right?) ;)

Friday, March 14, 2014

Book Festival Update!

Here I am with Guadalupe Garcia McCall at the prefestival dinner at Johnny Carino's. She was so fun! I was expecting someone more serious after reading Under the Mesquite, but she is so fun and high energy!

Here I am with Crystal Allen and Guadalupe Garcia McCall. These two are a hoot! We were all laughing so hard the rest of the people in the restaurant were staring at us, but we did not care. Plus, Crystal Allen knows Neal Shusterman in real life, not just in a stalkery way like I do. He is her mentor; how cool is that!?

This is Gordon Korman (OMG) and CyWoods librarian, Terrie Schexnaider. Y'all, I had dinner with GORDON KORMAN!

Diana Lopez was also great. I can't wait to read Ask My Mood Ring How I Feel! I sense a spring break read coming on. :)

And here is a photo of Tim Green and me together. That's right. Tim Green and me. Together. I know you're jealous!

Doesn't Wendelin Van Draanen look so fun in this picture. I LOVED meeting her! Y'all know The Running Dream is one of my all time favorites. Plus, she was wearing purple Converse sneakers--my favorite shoe in my favorite color. I knew we were kindred spirits! :)

Thursday, March 6, 2014

The Laura Line

Laura Dyson loves three things in life: fashion and modeling, baseball, and that chunky hunky Troy Bailey! Kids at school make fun of her because she's a little overweight, Troy barely acknowledges her existence, and she's never told anyone outside of her family about loving baseball. She doesn't want to give them any more ammunition to use against her--a girl pitching baseball.

Despite this, Laura is pretty happy. She has her best friend, Sage, for support. Everything goes wrong when she has to spend two weeks with her grandmother at the farm while her parents are away at their National Guard training. Heck to the double no! Laura knows her grandmother will bore her to tears with all her talk about the slave shack and the Laura Line. She doesn't see why anyone would be proud of that symbol of injustice in her family. Plus, her grandmother knows nothing about baseball!

But Laura doesn't have a choice, and with Sage making a play for the more popular kids(doesn't she see they're just using her?), and Troy and his dad taking care of her grandmother's yard (sweet mother of chunky hunkies!), and a class field trip to the slave shack (oh, heck to the double no), her life is about to be turned upside down.

Crystal Allen's new book is about staying true to yourself and finding strength and courage in those who came before. Don't miss the author at the book festival this Saturday!