| Current mood: |  Teary |
Thank you to the Students of Maine
Maine Student Book Award display, Mast Landing School, Freeport, Maine
Today I was working at the library on my second book, and an email came from a writer friend. Charlotte Agell is a talented author and artist (who lives down the street from me!). She asked me if I had time to meet with a student who will be shadowing her next month. At the end of the email, Charlotte congratulated me on RULES winning the Maine Student Book Award.
I had no idea.
All year, Maine librarians would say to me that they thought RULES could win, and all year, I thanked them and said, "Oh, I don't think that will happen." The Maine Student Book Award list has more than 40 books on it, and it includes some wonderful books, including huge crowd-pleasers: HEAT, THE WRIGHT 3, THE HOMEWORK MACHINE, etc. I thought it was enough to make the list, and I truly hoped RULES would do as well as it did in Rhode Island recently at 5th place. Honestly, fifth felt like a great finish to me.
In all the good things that have come to me in the past two years since RULES was published, to think that children, my state's children, voted for it. . . I burst into tears.
No one from Maine has ever won this before. And no one who's won will ever be as happy or as proud of it as I am.
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