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WASHINGTON POST CHOOSES UNGIFTED

Many thanks to The Washington Post’s awesome Kidspost for including UNGIFTED in their summer book club. Mark your calendars – the week of July 18 is officially UNGIFTED Week! CLICK HERE for all the details – and happy summer reading!

RESTART WINS AUDIE AWARD

Congrats to the awesome cast of the RESTART audiobook, winners of the 2018 Audie award for multivoiced performance, and to Recorded Books for putting together this fantastic production. You’ll hear a lot of familiar voices on RESTART, including narrators from MASTERMINDS, THE HYPNOTISTS, SWINDLE, UNGIFTED and SUPERGIFTED. It’s so great to see these talented people […]

WhatsHisFace STARS IN PW KIDSCAST

Guess what: WHATSHISFACE stars in the latest PW Kidscast, the can’t miss podcast of the kids book world. CLICK HERE to listen.

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER …

Attention: NYLA-SSL Long Island conference attendees: I’m excited to FINALLY accept the Knickerbocker Award I won LAST year, but couldn’t receive because all the flights to Buffalo were canceled due to the storm. Hope to see you at my workshop at 3pm or my autographing at 3:45!

ONLY ONE MORE WEEK UNTIL WHATSHISFACE

Getting so psyched for WHATSHISFACE … on May 8th, everyone will know his name!

RESTART MAKES BANKS STREET’S “BEST BOOKS OF 2017”

Very psyched to see RESTART on Banks Street College of Educations’s list of Best Books of 2017 – and rubbing elbows with some pretty elite company. Woo-hoo! CLICK HERE for the whole list.

RESTART SELECTED BY SCRIPPS NATIONAL SPELLING BEE

So psyched to be able to reveal that RESTART is a 6th grade selection for Great Words, Great Works by the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Every word on the 2018-2019 School Spelling Bee Study List can be found in one of the books. Can you spell “exhilarated?”

VOTE RESTART

I’m super-honored to report that RESTART is up for Global Read Aloud, middle school category! The competition is pretty stiff, but for readers, it’s a win-win. You really can’t go wrong with these awesome titles. CLICK HERE TO VOTE  

WEEKEND BAKING PROJECT: RESTART CUPCAKES