THE YEAR THE SWALLOWS CAME EARLY
Eleanor "Groovy" Robinson loves cooking and plans to go to culinary school just as soon as she's old enough. But even her thoughtfully planned menus won't fix the things that start to go wrong the year she turns eleven. Suddenly, her father is in jail, her best friend's long-absent mother reappears, and the swallows that make their way to her hometown arrive surprisingly early.
As Groovy begins to expect the unexpected, she learns about the importance of forgiveness and starts to understand the complex stories of the people around her. And on a night where nothing goes as planned, she is amazed to discover that even a really big shake up can't get in the way of a family that needs to come together.
Kathryn Fitzmaurice's tender debut novel is as full of promise as the swallows that return home to San Juan Capistrano every spring.
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NEWS & EVENTS
Kathryn will be attending the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Los Angeles chapter Writer's Day Conference on April 18, 2009, at the Clairbourn School, 8400 Huntington Drive, San Gabriel, CA, 91775.
Kathryn will be attending the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, April 25-26, 2009, on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles, and signing books on Saturday, April 25.
Kathryn will be at Laguna Beach Books on Sunday, May 31, from 1-2:30pm, for "An Afternoon with Six Young Adult and Middle Grade Authors", an author event and signing with Alyson Noel, Marlene Perez, Deborah Lytton, Mary Pearson, and Deborah Garfinkle.
Kathryn will be attending the summer ALA conference in Chicago, July 9-12, 2009.
Kathryn will be signing books at Anderson's Bookshop at 123 West Jefferson, in Naperville, Illinois, on July 10, 2009, at 3:00pm.
Kathryn will be attending the summer 2009 SCBWI National Conference in Los Angeles from August 7-10. For more information and to register, go to:
MEET KATHRYN
When Kathryn was thirteen, her mother sent her to New York to visit her grandmother, who was a science fiction author. After seeing how her grandmother created the characters in her books, Kathryn decided that she, too, wanted to become a writer.