Hooked on Libraries With Adele Griffin

First Draft Episode #266: Adele Griffin

Adele Griffin, two-time National Book Award honoree and author of
almost thirty books for Young Adult and middle grade readers,
including The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone, The Becket List,
and Sons of Liberty and Where I want to Be.


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This episode is sponsored by Revision Season, a seven-week,
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Arnold, author of Printz honor winner Damsel and National Book
Award finalist What Girls Are Made Of, and more.


Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode




Agatha Christie, author of Murder on the Orient Express,
Death on the Nile, and more




Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene




Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery




OMG Book Festival




Elizabeth Eulberg, author of The Great Shelby Holmes, Past
Perfect Life, and more




Twilight by Stephenie Meyer




John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars, Looking for
Alaska, and many more




Nancy Paulsen at Penguin




Graphic novelist Lisa Brown collaborated with Adele on
Picture the Dead




Kate DiCamillo is one of six people to win two Newbery
Medals, for her novels The Tale of Despereaux and Flora &
Ulysses, and author of Newbery Honor book Because of
Winn-Dixie, National Book Award finalist The Tiger Rising, as
well as New York Times bestselling novels The Miraculous
Journey of Edward Tulane, The Magician’s Elephant, the Mercy
Watson series, and more. DiCamillo was the U.S. National
Ambassador for Young People's Literature for 2014 and 2015.
Listen to her First Draft interview here.




Wilder Girls by Rory Power




Sarah Mlynowski, author of Just a Girl and a Boy in a Little
Canoe, the Whatever After series, and co-author of
Upside-Down Magic




Julia DeVillers is the author of Liberty Porter, First
Daughter series and the coauthor of the Trading Faces series




Michael Buckley, author of The Sisters Grimm series, the
National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society (N.E.R.D.S.




 


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