Ammi-Joan Paquette

On Saturday, February 27, from 12:30-3:30 p.m. An Unlikely Story Bookstore and Café will be partnering with the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators to present “Leap into Reading,” a special event featuring eleven authors and illustrators of children’s books. Featured authors are: M.P. Barker, Lisa Rose Bauer, Mark Binder Linda Crotta Brennan, Joan Duris , Cathren Housley, Heather Lang, Nancy Tupper Ling, Ammi-Joan Paquette, Nicole Tadgell, and Jean Taft.

Young readers and their parents, as well as aspiring writers and illustrators, are invited to meet authors and artists who represent a range of genres from fiction to nonfiction, picture books to young-adult novels. The event will include a scavenger hunt for young readers, and a “Writing for Kids 101” table with information for aspiring children’s book writers. Authors’ books will be available for purchase and autographing.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Join authors M.P. Barker, Kim Harrington, Cara Bertrand, Ammi-Joan Paquette, A.C. Gaughen, and Jenifer Stockdale for an evening of readings, conversation, and food to celebrate Teens Read Week.
Event co-hosted by Booklovers Gourmet of Webster, MA
This event is free and open to the public. M. P. Barker Kim Harrington Cara Bertrand Ammi-Joan Paquette A. C. Gaughen Mending Horses A Difficult Boy (mpbarker)… (més)

This event will be held at Oblong Books & Music, 6422 Montgomery St., Rhinebeck, NY.

The League of Extraordinary Readers is a monthly author event series for kids ages 8-12 (and those who are kids at heart). Come to the bookstore to meet your favorite children's book authors, with giveaways, snacks and fun at every event!

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A.J. PAQUETTE has been writing stories since early childhood when she would spend hours creating masterpieces of stapled paper and handwritten words, complete with pen-and-ink covers and boxed illustrations. Her work has been published in a variety of national magazine publications, she is a 2005 PEN New England Susan P. Bloom Discovery Award honoree, and received the 2008 SCBWI’s Susan Landers Glass Scholarship Award, for her book Nowhere Girl. She also creates picture books for young readersIn Rules for Ghosting twelve-year-old Dahlia has always lived at Silverton Manor-having spent fifty years as its resident ghost. When Oliver Day and his family show up as house-sitters the day Mrs. Tibbs, a Liberator sent by the Spectral Investigative Council, arrives to teach Dahlia the proper Rules for Ghosting, Dahlia can't wait to make new friends. But the unscrupulous ghost hunter, Rank Wiley, and the crooked town councilman, Jock Rutabartle, plan to rid Silverton Manor of its ghosts and sell it to the highest bidder. With her home and friendships at stake Dahlia may have to break the rules of ghosting as quickly as she learns them to solve the mystery of her death and save the manor. Paquette lives with her family in Boston. FRANK CAMMUSO is an Eisner-nominated cartoonist, the creator of the popular middle school graphic novel series Knights of the Lunch Table, and the illustrator of several beginning reader graphic books, including Otto’s Orange Day. In The Misadventures of Salem Hyde. BOOK 1: SPELLING TROUBLE, Salem Hyde just isn’t like other kids. For one thing, she’s stubborn, independent, and impulsive. For another, she’s a witch. Salem acts first and thinks later—which means most of her thinking involves coming up with excuses! Good thing she’s been assigned an animal companion, Lord Percival J. Whamsford III. This over-anxious cat doesn’t like Salem calling him “Whammy,” and Salem doesn’t like listening to his long-winded explanations as to why she shouldn’t do something . . . like enter the class spelling bee. Salem knows she can beat all her classmates at spells, no problem. Too late, she realizes the competition is about spelling words, not magic. And there’s nothing like a misspelled spell to cause all kinds of havoc! Cammuso lives in Syracuse, New York. GREG RUTH has written and drawn stories for Dark Horse Comics, DC/Vertigo, Fantagraphics, and The New York Times. His first picture book, OUR ENDURING SPIRIT, was written by Barack Obama. He is currently working on the graphic novel by Ethan Hawke. The Lost Boy is his debut graphic novel for Scholastic. In it Nate's not happy about his family moving to a new house in a new town. After all, nobody asked him if he wanted to move in the first place. But when he discovers a tape recorder and note addressed to him under the floorboards of his bedroom, he's thrust into a dark mystery about a boy who went missing many, many years ago. Now, as strange happenings and weird creatures begin to track Nate, he must partner with Tabitha, a local girl, to find out what they want with him. But time is running out, for a powerful force is gathering strength in the woods at the edge of town, and before long Nate and Tabitha will be forced to confront a terrifying foe and uncover the truth. Greg lives and works in Western Massachusetts.

Location: Street: 6422 Montgomery St., Suite 6 City: Rhinebeck, Province: New York Postal Code: 12572-0482 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

Do you have a plethora of phatoms? A wealth of wraiths? A superabundance of spirits? We can commiserate. Come join your fellow amigos of apparitions (and alliteration, apparently) for a storytime reading of Ammi Joan Paquette's Ghost in the House and Catherine LeBlanc's HOW TO GET RID OF GHOSTS. Afterwards we'll make Ghost Pops and Boo-marks!

Location: Street: 2421 Bissonnet St City: Houston, Province: Texas Postal Code: 77005-1451 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

Fans of James Dashner's Maze Runner series will love this postapocalyptic adventure about a girl who must survive an alien planet in order to save the Earth. Ana only knows her name because of the tag she finds pinned to her jumpsuit. Waking in the featureless compartment of a rocket ship, she opens the hatch to discover that she has landed on a barren alien world. Instructions in her pocket tell her to observe and to survive, no doubt with help from the wicked-looking knives she carries on her belt. But to what purpose? Meeting up with three other teens--one boy seems strangely familiar--Ana treks across the inhospitable landscape, occasionally encountering odd twists of light that carry glimpses of people back on Earth. They're working on some sort of problem, and the situation is critical. What is the connection between Ana's mission on this planet and the crisis back on Earth, and how is she supposed to figure out the answer when she can't remember anything? Ammi-Joan Paquette is the author of the middle-grade novel Nowhere Girl, as well as several picture books for young readers. She is also a literary agent. She lives outside of Boston with her family and her very tall to-read pile.

Location: Street: Porter Square Shopping Center Additional: 25 White Street City: Cambridge, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02140 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

Join Porter Square Books for an evening of Middle Grade fiction with three great authors.

Erin E. Moulton graduated with an MFA in Writing for Children from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is the author of two middle grade novels, Flutter: The Story of Four Sisters and One Incredible Journey, and Tracing Stars. Erin is co-founder of the Kinship Writers Association and is currently the YA librarian at the Derry Public Library. She lives in Southern New Hampshire with her husband and puppy where she writes, reads, drinks tea and dreams. You can visit her online at www.erinemoulton.com or on Facebook as Erin E. Moulton (Author) or follow her on twitter @erinemoulton.

Ammi-Joan Paquette is a literary agent at the Erin Murphy Literary agency and author of The Tiptoe Guide to Tracking Fairies, The tiptoe guide to tracking mermaids and a mid-grade novel Nowhere Girl. She also has several other books due out in the next few years. When she is not on the phone, answering email, or writing, you will most likely find Joan curled up with a book. Or baking something delicious. Or talking about something delicious she’s baked. Really, after books and food, what else is there worth saying?

Lynda Mullaly Hunt is the author of middle-grade novel, One for the Murphys, winner of The Tassy Walden Award: New Voices in Children’s Literature. She is also a former teacher and Scenario Writing coach. Lynda has been Director of the SCBWI-NE Whispering Pines Retreat for six years. She runs a critique group out of her home and also maintains her kid-lit blog, Be Someone’s Hero. She’s a member of Emusdebuts.wordpress.com, a group blog of Erin Murphy Literary debut authors, chronicling the path from book contract to bookshelf. Lynda lives with her husband, two kids, impetuous beagle and beagle-loathing cat.

Location: Street: Porter Square Shopping Center Additional: 25 White Street City: Cambridge, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02140 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

A walk by the seashore might be nothing more than the start of an ordinary day . . . Or it could be the beginning of something magical! This beautiful picture book is the follow-up to The Tiptoe Guide to Tracking Fairies, which was chosen as one of the "Best Books for Children 2009" by the Association of Booksellers for Children.

Ammi-Joan Paquette has been writing stories since early childhood. She is the author of the young-adult novel Nowhere Girl and a recipient of the 2005 PEN New England Susan P. Bloom Discovery Award as well as the 2008 SCBWI’s Susan Landers Glass Scholarship Award. She lives with her husband and two daughters in the Boston area, where she works as an agent with the Erin Murphy Literary Agency and continues to write books for children and young adults. Please join us for this very special story time!

Location: Street: Andover Bookstore Additional: 89 R Main Street City: Andover, (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)