Here’s the direct link to reserve your spot.
You’re invited! Virtual Book launch for Trapped in Hitler’s Web
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MG Lit club Chat with Tuyet and Marsha
Thanks, Colleen Nelson and Kathie MacIsaac for inviting me and Tuyet to your book club tonight. It was great to chat!
Tuyet Yurczyszyn
I wrote about Tuyet’s childhood in Last Airlift and One Step at a Time, which has recently been re-released in an omnibus edition titled Sky of Bombs, Sky of Stars. Readers have contacted both me and Tuyet, inspired by her grit, optimism and indomitable spirit. But what many readers may not realize is that Tuyet is now a celebrated Canadian athlete in Women’s Sledge Hockey and played in the World Championship in 2014. Here’s an article about that.
In the summer of 2015, Tuyet was the final Torch Bearer in the Pan Am Para Am games.
#1 and #3!
Happy book birthday, Stolen Girl!
Chatting with students from Arnold, Missouri
The students selected Making Bombs for Hitler for their reading club and it was such a pleasure to answer their questions about the real history behind the novel, as well as why I write what I write, and my own learning struggles as a kid.
Audible edition of Stolen Girl
Audible edition of Making Bombs for Hitler
Two awards in one week!
My favourite awards are readers’ choice awards because it means actual kids are enjoying one’s books. This was a humbling week when Too Young to Escape won TWO of these awards, voted by the kids themselves. The Red Cedar is an BC information book award. Here’s a video about my wonderful fellow nominees’ books.
The Yellow Cedar Award is part of the Ontario Library Association’s hugely popular Forest of Reading program. This is the first year for the Yellow Cedar and it combines two previous awards: the Silver Birch for non-fiction and the Red Maple for non-fiction. Watch the award ceremony here.