Calendar: Young people
Proof Giveaway - Amy Green
Meet Amy Green - teenage agony aunt extraordinaire! When Amy's seventeen-year-old Aunt Clover lands a dream job giving advice for teen mag The Goss Amy quickly realizes that this is no ordinary column. Clover - being Clover - doesn't just want to answer her readers' letters, she wants to solve their problems ... personally. From stamping out malicious rumours to handling first kisses and creating the perfect Bebo page, the pair bring happiness to many unhappy girls. But when Amy falls for the cute boy in her art class, she finds she's in need of a little help of her own...
A brilliant new series for teenagers aged 10-13 years from a talented new author, Sarah Webb, Amy Green will find a place in the hearts of teenage girls everywhere. For 10-13 year olds, publishing February 2009.
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Anthony Horowitz Poster Giveaway
Welcome to the City of the Dead! Necropolis, the eagerly-awaited fourth book in Anthony Horowitz's bestseliing 'Power of Five' series is out 30 October. For all the latest news, cool downloads and much much more, please visit http://www.powerof5.co.uk/flash.html
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Book Ahead Culmination Celebration
Celebratory event with a picture book author/illustrator and poet to mark the end of our 'Book Ahead' programme in Warwickshire. Audience will be Early Years practitioners and Advisory teachers.
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Meet Author Justinn Richards
Justin will be talking about his new book The Parliament of Blood
www.justinrichards.co.uk
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Meg Cabot public talk and signing
The author of the hugely successful THE PRINCESS DIARIES series will be in Milton Keynes to talk about her books and sign copies afterwards. Tickets £2, available in-store and redeemable against purchase of the book on the night.
http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/displayDetailEvent.do?searchType=1&author=Meg|Cabot
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Meg Cabot public event
Come and meet the glamorous Meg Cabot, best-selling author of THE PRINCESS DIARIES series! Meg will be talking about her new series ALLIE FINKLE'S RULES FOR GIRLS as well as her the first book in a brand new trilogy for teens, AIRHEAD! She will also give a sneak preview into the much anticipated tenth and final instalment of THE PRINCESS DIARIES
http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/displayDetailEvent.do?searchType=1&author=Meg|Cabot
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Meg Cabot public signing
Top teen and now tween author, Meg Cabot, will be talking about her 2 new books AIRHEAD and ALLIE FINKLE: THE NEW GIRL and giving an exclusive sneaky peak at the 10th, and final, installment of THE PRINCESS DIARIES! http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/displayDetailEvent.do?searchType=1&author=Meg|Cabot
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Kenneth Steven
Sept 2008 - Jan 2009
Iona, Columba, Wild Horses, Salt and Light, and Wildscape - readings would be a selection of poems from this best-known work to date, and detailed talk on how the poems came to be written.
Audience sizes - half a dozen would be the minimum for an event.
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Proof Giveaway - Goldsmith's Daughter by Tanya Landman
A young girl's struggle to change her destiny set against the destruction of the Aztec empire, the new novel from the brilliant Carnegie 2008 nominated author, Tanya Landman.
In the golden city of Tenochtitlan, Emperor Montezuma rules with an iron rod and people live in fear of the gods. Itacate, a girl born under an ill-fated sky, is destined for a life of submission and domestic drudgery. But when her father, a goldsmith, discovers her talent for his craft, she starts to work as his apprentice, a secret she must keep in order to protect the lives of herself and her family. But danger awaits as Spanish strangers invade the city. And when Itacate's work comes to the emperor's attention and she falls in love with a stranger, her life takes an even more perilous turn. Can Itacate change her destiny and survive in this harsh new world?
Age 12+
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Proof Giveaway: The Prison Runner
Deborah Ellis has done it again. The Prison Runner is a powerful and exciting novel based on truth, and set in the prisons and jungle of Bolivia. It is the thought-provking story of an unforgettable boy called Diego.
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York Literature Festival
1-15 March 2009
This will be the third York Literature Festival. In 2009, the festival will conclude our programme of events for the National Year of Reading. We welcome offers and suggestions for events appealing to adults, families, young people and children.
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