Cynthea Liu
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Great News!
WOOBY AND PEEP is coming in 2013!
PARIS PAN will be released in Germany!
PARIS PAN is a Scholastic Book Clubs selection!
PARIS PAN and THE GREAT CALL OF CHINA are both APALA Book List selections!
PARIS PAN is an Oklahoma Book Award finalist!
PARIS PAN, nominated for Texas Lone Star Reading List 2010
THE GREAT CALL OF CHINA is a NoveList Best and a Grab-and-Go title!
PARIS PAN is part of the Accelerated Reader program and Scholastic Reading Counts!
Reviews
"The book is well paced and Paris's desire for friendship will ring true with middle school readers." School Library Journal"Liu's story, refreshingly, features a Chinese American narrator whose ethnicity is not at the story's center." Horn Book
Paris Pan Takes the Dare draws you in and won't let you go until the end." TeensReadToo, Gold Star Award for Excellence
"Liu's latest book, Paris Pan Takes the Dare, is a stylish, character-driven story with an appealing, spunky heroine." Chicago Sun Times
Author Archives: Cynthea
Thank you, Mountain Pine Elementary
Dear Mountain Pine Elementary,
Thank you so much for a wonderful Skype visit. I’m so excited to share photos that Ms. Gilbreth passed on to me. I had no idea my head was *that* big! Ha! Enjoy them and I hope [...]
FAQ
Dear Readers,
You ask so many insightful questions and I hope you’ll find many answers to your questions here! If not, try to contact me and I’ll do my best to post an answer to your question here. Enjoy!
Top Questions asked [...]
How to Hold a Virtual Author Visit Handout
Just a quick update for those who attended my HotSpot presentation at Encyclo-media this year:
Here’s a link to the handout, Virtual Skype Author Visits. In case, you weren’t able to attend, feel free to use it, too! There are handy [...]
Monday, 6/28/10, ALA 2010 Washington, D.C. Presentation and Signing
Cynthea Liu, along with fellow authors Jennifer R. Hubbard, Lindsey Leavitt, and Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich will be presenting Low Budget Ways to Connect Readers with Authors using Web 2.0 Tools at ALA 2010 in Washington, D.C. on Monday, June 28th at [...]
Thank you, Oak Prairie School!
Dear Oak Prairie,
Wowzers. What a day! What a welcome you all had for me. I was just as excited to finally meet you, too! 7th and 8th graders: who knew you all were so competitive? I thought someone was going [...]
Thank you, Washington Irving Elementary!
Dear Washington Irving Elementary,
I had an awesome time seeing you all again for the second time this year. You were great listeners and great writers, too! I have never heard so many pencils scratching so hard on paper before. It [...]
Skype/Virtual Author Visit: How it went
I had a virtual visit today with a wonderful school in Colorado, and I know some of you may want to know how that all went. First, prior to the visit, I definitely made use of the the great tips provided [...]
Thank you, Downers Grove
I had a wonderful time visiting the 3rd, 4th, and 6th Graders at Indian Trail Elementary and the 5th graders at Henry Puffer. The signing at the Downers Grove Public Library was tremendous as well! Thanks to everyone, including Mrs. [...]
This just in: PARIS PAN is an Oklahoma Book Award finalist!
Yeehaw! I’ve just learned my debut middle grade novel PARIS PAN TAKES THE DARE is an Oklahoma Book Award finalist. So honored! It’s been great to see PARIS recognized. First, it was the TeensReadToo Gold Star Award for Excellence, the [...]
Thank You, Casady
Dear Casady,
It was so great to meet you all. What a way to end the school week just before the big storm. The weather was awesome, you all were awesome, and btw, your school is really, really awesome, too.
But I’m [...]