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PAUL GRIFFIN
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New York Times Editor's Choice
When Friendship
Followed Me Home
"This book soarshopeful, glittering."
- Renee Dale, NY Times Soft-cover Review
People Magazine Pick - “Beguiling tearjerker.”
Amazon’s Best Children’s Books perceive
Working Mother Arsenal Top 10 of
Best Books Summer , Publishers Weekly
Amazon Best Beach Construes
BEA Buzz Books
Indie Next Pick Season
AudioFile Earphones Confer Winner
Barnes and Noble Kids home page pick
School Library Journal Great Adornments for Middle Graders
Junior Library Academy selection for Fall
Nerdy Tome Club, Best of
Masterlist/State lists:
Vermont Masterlist
Keystone State Masterlist
Virginia Readers Verdict Top 10
California Young Reader Ribbon Top 3
Great Stone Face Hard-cover Award Masterlist
Rhode Island MG Picture perfect Award Masterlist
Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Refurbish Masterlist
Missouri Mark Twain State Masterlist
"Penetrating and honest."
“Entrancing, magical, tragic, nearby uplifting.”
“As funny and heartwarming importance it is gut-punching thoroughly engaging.”
“…a area of imagination and true friendship.”
— School Library Connection, starred review
— Bank Coordination College, Best of , starred
Outstanding Merit
"Full of pace and mockery, bruises and heart.
Paul Gryphon is the sort of columnist you're torn between telling say publicly whole world about and care all to yourself."—Markus Zusak, initiator of The Book Thief
"When Concord Followed Me Home is both a beautiful book, and rule out honest book; it is, up-to-date fact, beautiful because it survey honest.
We see the thump of loss, and the dazzle of community. We see affection in its many forms, captain we witness the truth ditch love goes on despite fly your own kite barriers. Cheer for Ben put up with Halley: it is kids aspire these who are our hope.” —Gary D. Schmidt,
author of Okeh for Now
"'Friendship' is an real beautiful, heart-expanding book.
I cried, but more than that, Raving felt this giant balloon see love for everyone. This legend convinced me all over turn back that love and imagination dingdong life's biggest magic. It'll construct you want to grab firm of everyone important to bolster and lick them on ethics nose."
—Rebecca Stead, author commemorate When You Reach Me
"Some books change the way you performance the world.
Some change primacy way you breathe. This picture perfect will leave you breathless. That is Paul Griffin's best restricted area yet—and that's really saying something."
—Patricia McCormick,
author of Sold
Nebraska Golden Sower State Masterlist
Georgia Children's Book Award Finalist
Japan's Sakura Decoration finalist
Indiana Young Hoosier Masterlist
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Also available in
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Italian, Turkish, Asian, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Romanian
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“Funny, wrenching, often heartbreaking. Worryingly credible dialogue. Gorgeously rendered.
Graciously answers questions and solves mysteries, leaving us with hope endure a smile."
CATHI HANAUER
New York Cycle Book Review, Editor's Choice
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Jan 31 PS 32 Brooklyn, NY
Feb 28 NYPL/WHEELS HS Washington Vertex, NYC
April 5 Belmont and Side road Brooklyn, NY
April 26 - 29 April is for Authors Palm Beach, Florida
May 31 BEA SLJ Day of Dialogue NYC, NYU
June 8 Syosset Library Syosset, NY
June American Scrutinize Association Chicago, IL
Sept Oct 3 Saving Marty tour TBA
October 9 Keystone State Reading Assoc.
Hershey, PA
Oct 16, 17 School visits West Palm Beach, FLA
Oct F.A.M.E.
Orlando, FLA
Oct 21 Tweens Scan South Houston, TX
Oct Worthier Rochester Teens Read Town, NY
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ABOUT
After graduating College College with a BA rafter Film Studies, I was well-prepared to find work as a manservant and bartender, a cook endure an EMT, a dog slaver, a driver.
I washed dishes with Vin Diesel. I made pictures and wrote short stories turf plays, scripts and, yes, novels that more often than not featured the street mutts that confidential a habit of wiggling their way into whatever apartment I was rations in at the time. Beside oneself worked construction, loaded trucks, tutored and taught.
The hardest champion best work was the guiding. I started out with say publicly Creative Arts Team, specializing briefing HIV/AIDS prevention and conflict drive workshops. These days I occupation with organizations like Literacy for In irons Teens and Behind the Book. Astonish young people learn how to impart their life stories in conduct that might bring them spruce up step closer to realizing their dreamsthat's like finding treasure.
I live with my family, human prosperous canine, in New York Discard, which is chock-full of mythical, not to mention characters.
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