• Check out my Fall 2009 Blog Tour schedule for The Indigo Notebook here!
• Check out the latest blogger reviews of The Indigo Notebook here.
• The first big review of The Indigo Notebook has arrived! And it's lovely! According to Kirkus, "The characters fairly brim with life in this thoughtful, poignant novel filled with cultural details." Yay! Thank you, Kirkus!
• Check out the Travel and Fun page on my website - there's new stuff there... including a Fall Contest to win a free, signed copy of The Indigo Notebook!
• Red Glass has been selected as an Honorable Book for the Ohio James Cook Book Award for diversity in teen literature! Thanks, Ohio!
• The Indigo Notebook has been nominated as an ALA Best Book for Young Adults! This is a huge honor!
• The first review of The Indigo Notebook is in... and to my delight (and relief), it's a lovely one!!!
• Red Glass is part of this year's Fort Collins Reads program!. It's a companion book to T.C. Boyle's The Tortilla Curtain. During the spring, summer, and fall of 2009, I will be doing readings, presentations, and signings at local bookstores and libraries. Please sign up for my every-other-month email newsletter to be notified of the events.
• Red Glass is also part of this year's Intergenerational Book Club in Fort Collins! During spring 2009, I will be doing Please sign up for my every-other-month email newsletter to be notified of the events.
• Red Glass will be released as an audiobook on March 9, 2009!
• Red Glass is Readergirlz' feature book of May! This online issue of Readergirlz will have an interview, playlist, discussion questions, and more cool stuff related to Red Glass. All month, I'll be participating in the Readergirlz forum on myspace .
• The Queen of Water - a true story co-written with Maria Virginia Farinango about her amazing girlhood in the Ecuadoran Andes - will be published in spring 2011 by Delacorte/ Random House!
• Red Glass has been nominated for the 2009-2010 Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award Final List!
• Red Glass is one of ten nominees for the 2009-2010 Nebraska Golden Sower Young Adult Award
• Red Glass is the Colorado Book Award winner in the young adult category!
• Red Glass is on Oprah's Kids' Reading List!
• Red Glass will come out as an audio book in Spring 2009!
• My new middle grade book, Star in the Forest will come out in Spring 2010!
• I just turned my latest manuscript, tentatively entitled The Indigo Notebook into my editor. It's scheduled to be released in Fall 2009.
• What the Moon Saw is now available in paperback!
• For a complete list of awards and reviews of Red Glass see the review section.

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