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Alma Fullerton will be the featured guest author in the ALAN Book Chat on Wednesday, June 25, 2008.  The chat will begin at 9:00 PM (EDT) and will be moderated by librarian Barb Dean.  Everyone is invited to participate; you do not have to be a member of ALAN to visit the chat.  To access [...]

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ALAN is seeking a new editor of The ALAN Review. The present coeditors, Lori Atkins Goodson and James Blasingame, will be resigning from the position after the Summer 2009 issue.  For more information, click here.

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Newbery-winner Sharon Creech, whose works include Walk Two Moons, Bloomability, The Wanderer, Love That Dog, Ruby Holler, and others, will be speaking at the ALAN Breakfast on Saturday, November 22.
Creech’s novel Walk Two Moons received the 1995 Newbery Medal, and Ruby Holler received the 2002 Carnegie Medal, making her the first novelist to receive both [...]

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The ALAN BookClub is pleased to feature Alma Fullerton and her novel Walking on Glass (2007 HarperCollins) in this month’s book chat. Walking on Glass is a novel written completely in verse and tells the compelling story of a sixteen-year-old boy who must decide whether or not to disconnect his mother’s life support.
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Pamela Sissi Carroll, Chair of the Hipple Award Committee, has announced that Jeanne McDermott, Director of Marketing of Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, has been selected to receive the 2008 Hipple Service Award.
Jeanne McDermott is a marketing professional with over twenty years in the field including, among other companies, HarperCollins and The Disney [...]

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