2020 News
Interview with former TIMES reporter, David E. Thigpen
2019 News
October 2019: Lara’s Gift lands on some Good Reads Lists!
YA & MG Dog Covers – 6th out of 336 books
Middle Grade Fiction set in the 1910s – 25th out of 164 books
VCFA Student/Alum Books – 29th out of 140 books
Russia in YA & Middle Grade Historical Fiction – 37th out of 100 books
Best Historical Juvenile Fiction/Nonfiction – 10th out of 150 books
Top Dog Reads – 171st out of 557 books
Russia: Middle Grade Reads – 36th out of 101 books
Best Books Ever – 28,209th out of 55,532 books
Fiction books set in or about Russia – 39th out of 62 books
Best Books about Animals – 583rd out of 1,471 books
June 10: 2019 Katherine Paterson Prize for Young Adult & Children’s Writing Finalist for Young Adult Fiction submission of “Butterfly Trap”
2015 News
October 1: Lara’s Gift, a dog book is available at a discount for teachers at Scholastic.
May 1: Lara’s Gift, a dog book is available in Canada!
April 12: Lara’s Gift, a dog book is available in Australia!
April 10: Lara’s Gift, a dog book is available at the Reading Bug!
April 4: Lara’s Gift, a dog book makes Hawaii’s Nene Award 2015 finalist list!
2014 News
Nov 14: I have always dreamed of having my dog book on a Scholastic Book Club form! Thank you Scholastic!
August 1: Lara’s Gift, a dog book is a featured Middle School title on Scholastic Book Fairs!
August 1: Lara’s Gift, a dog book is a featured Elementary School title on Scholastic Book Fairs!
July 22: The paperback format of Lara’s Gift, a dog book comes out.
May 9: Lara’s Gift, a dog book is a finalist for the SCBWI Crystal Kite Award!
Spring: “Lara’s visions add a fantasy element to this peek into a different time.” —The Horn Book
April 24: Lara’s Gift, a dog book makes Hawaii’s Nene Award 2014 finalist list!
April 4: Lara’s Gift, a dog book is a finalist for the Northern California Book Award.
April 1: Lara’s Gift, a dog book is a finalist for the California Book Award.
January 1: Scholastic buys the sub rights to offer Lara’s Gift, a dog book through Scholastic Book Clubs and Book Fairs.
