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NEWS & EVENTS
Bookpage has named The Year the Swallows Came Early as one of the Ten best middle grade novels of 2009.
The Year the Swallows Came Early has been named by Booklist as a Top Ten First Novels for Youth in 2009.
The Year the Swallows Came Early is now a California Readers Collection List selection for 2010
The Year the Swallows Came Early has been nominated by SCIBA (Southern California Independent Booksellers Association) for their annual book awards.
Kathryn is teaching a teen writing series through the Rancho Santa Margarita Public Library, located at 30902 La Promesa, RSM, CA., on Oct. 13, Nov. 10, Dec. 8, 2009, and March 9, April 13, 2010. For more information, and to sign up, contact Julie Fiitch, Teen Librarian, at 949-458-6098.
Kathryn will join FOCAL, Friends of the Library, Los Angeles central branch library, 630 West Fifth Street, on Sunday, February 21, 2010, at 2:00pm for a reader's theater from a chapter of her book. Please join us!
Kathryn will be attending the California Reader's Luncheon in Burbank, CA, on February 27, 2010. For more information, go to:
Kathryn will be speaking at the AAUW Literary Luncheon in Laguna Beach, CA, on Saturday, March 13, 2010. For more information, 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.