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The Penderwicks (as I explored here) has delightful characters, and Birdsall is a master at distinguishing between the four sisters and establishing them as a coherent unit. One of the ways she allows us to know the four sisters so fully is through close third person narration with a shifting point of view–we see the world through each sister’s eyes at various points in the narrative.
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Anne-Marie Strohman writes picture books and is working on a middle grade novel. She is trained as a teacher, an editor, and a scholar, specializing in Renaissance Literature. She lives in the mostly-sunny city of Sunnyvale with her husband and two children. She is an active member of SCBWI.
Find her at amstrohman.com and on Twitter @amstrwriter
Anne-Marie Strohman
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Kristi Wright (assistant editor) is the Assistant Regional Advisor for the San Francisco/South region of the Society of Children’s Books Writers and Illustrators and a writing mentor for the non-profit Society of Young Inklings. She offers writing workshops at the elementary school level with a focus on point of view and sensory detail. Her indie-published futuristic middle grade adventure series, The Basker Twins in the 31st Century, raises funds and awareness for a rare, childhood-onset disease, Friedreich’s ataxia.
Find her at www.kristiwrightauthor.com and on Twitter @KristiWrite
KRISTI
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Jen Jobart writes middle grade fiction and is always sending characters she loves on dangerous adventures. She is an active member of the SCBWI and has studied writing for children through Stanford’s Continuing Studies program. When Jen’s not writing, she’s outside gardening and raising chickens at her home in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Find her at www.jenjobart.com
Jen Jobart
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LA Biscay writes children’s books and dances everyday, if only down the hall. As a teacher of Creative Movement, she enjoys assembling basic dance elements into unique combinations. It’s probably why she’s a fan of story structure! LA is an active member of SCBWI. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, children, super dog, and a brood of chickens that lay green eggs. Yep. Green eggs.
LA BISCAY
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Beth Mitchell lives in the coastal mountains of Northern California with her husband and two sons. A member of the Society of Children’s Books Writers and Illustrators, she writes middle grade novels and blogs about the books she and her boys love.
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BETH
MITCHELL
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Lindsay Lackey is a freelance writer and editor, a recent California transplant, and a newbie vertical garden nerd. In 2016, Lindsay author a comprehensive reader’s guide for a new edition of Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art by Madeleine L’Engle,
as well as guides for three upcoming L’Engle reprints. The day she saw her name sharing a title page with her literary hero was one of the happiest days of her life. Lindsay is currently finishing her first Middle Grade novel.
Lindsay Lackey
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