Middle Grade & Young Adult Fiction: Reaching Readers
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Arquillos is Executive Director at 826LA, a non-profit writing and tutoring organization that serves youth ages 6-18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and supports teachers by helping them get their students excited about writing. 826LA is also the home of the Time...
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De la Cruz is the internationally bestselling author of many critically acclaimed novels, including "The Isle of the Lost: A Descendants Novel" and the Summer on East End series. Her Blue Bloods series has sold over three million copies, and the Witches of East End series became a...
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Sáenz is an acclaimed writer for adults and teens. His novel "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" won a Printz Honor Award, the Pura Belpre, Lambda, and Stonewall Book Awards. His latest book is “The Inexplicable Logic of My Life.” He lives in El Paso...
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Tashjian is the author of the popular My Life series including “My Life as a Ninja,” “My Life as a Book,” “My Life as a Stuntboy,” “My Life as a Cartoonist,” “My Life as a Joke,” and “My Life as a Gamer,” as well as the Einstein the Class Hamster series, both...
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Watson is the acclaimed author of the teen novel, "This Side of Home,” and two picture books: "Harlem's Little Blackbird" and "A Place Where Hurricanes Happen,” which was featured on NBC Nightly News. Her middle grade novel, "What Momma Left Me" debuted as an ABA New Voices...
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