Are celebrity-author children’s books any good?
Interesting article about celebrity-author children’s books & Obama’s upcoming picture book. Thanks to kidlit author Margriet Ruurs for the link.
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Scars
(WestSide Books, March 24, 2010)
Kendra must face her past and stop hurting herself--before it's too late....
Yes, it is really my own arm on the cover of SCARS.
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STAINED (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Nov 19, 2013)
Sarah, a teen with a port-wine stain and body image issues, is abducted and must find a way to rescue herself.
(WestSide Books, Dec 2011; Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Feb 2012)Caitlyn--a telepath in a world where that is illegal--must choose between staying in hiding or saving the world.
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C. A. Rainfield
(HIP Books, Apr 2011)
A human girl with a SkinWalker mother must decide what side she's on....
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(HIP Books, Sept 2009)
A boy who speaks with birds is the only one who can save the last dragon....
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