My dear friend Meghan is an incredible mom of three girls–two twins and a baby… She started a Wish Stealers book club at her daughters’ school. They made a giant Wish Stealers cookie to launch the book club…23 girls signed up and they talked about nasty Samantha Sloane from the book and why Samantha acts [...]
Continue reading...19. June 2010
The beloved book store, Yellow Book Road, in La Mesa, CA hosted me for an author visit. I spoke to three classes of students who not only asked challenging questions but who also had some brave volunteers who acted on scenes from The Wish Stealers! Yellow Book Road has chosen The Wish Stealers as summer [...]
Continue reading...19. June 2010
Fantastic independent book store in Arizona chose The Wish Stealers for their summer reads book club…25 kids from 4th-8th grade all read the book and discussed it before calling me for a group conference call…they asked me why I wrote the book and who my favorite character was…
Continue reading...16. March 2010
BOOK SUMMARY Griffin Penshine is always making wishes. But when a sinister old woman, Mariah Weatherby Schmidt, tricks Griffin into accepting a box of eleven shiny Indian Head pennies from 1897, Griffin soon learns these are no ordinary pennies, but stolen wishes. This box of labeled pennies comes with a horrible curse: anybody in possession [...]
Continue reading...24. January 2010
A review by CPA MOM BLOG: CPA MOM BLOG REVIEW: My take: If I had to sum up this book in one word, I would use ‘riveting.’ Absolutely riveting and I’m not even the target audience (it’s been many years since I was 8 – 12 years old!). I took this book with me to a [...]
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19. June 2010
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