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
Category Archives: Middle Grade
NEW! Critique #3 from Agent Jennifer Laughran, Andrea Brown Literary Agency
The Prize: One critique of the first five-pages of your double-spaced manuscript for a middle grade or young adult novel. Please note: Jennifer will request to see the first 20 pages of your manuscript to see if the story engages [...]
NEW! Critique #4 from Agent Jennifer Rofe, Andrea Brown Literary Agency
Having once been a teacher, I’ve seen first-hand the positive impact reading has on teens. Books rule!
The Prize: One critique of a fiction picture book (1000 words max, double-spaced) or the first five pages of your fiction middle grade or [...]
NEW! Critique #4 from Agent Jill Corcoran, Herman Agency
Books lift up the mind, and the soul. Every child deserves free access to a variety of books, to a world beyond their own.
The Prize: One critique of the first five double-spaced pages of your fiction middle grade or [...]
NEW! Critique #2 from Editorial Director Andrew Karre, Carolrhoda Books, Lerner
The Prize: One critique of the first five double-spaced pages of your fiction middle grade and young adult novel.
The Darer: Andrew Karre is the editorial director of Carolrhoda Books, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group. Carolrhoda has [...]
NEW! Submission Package Critique #2 from Freelance Editor Stacy Whitman
The Prize: One critique of the first three chapters of reasonable length AND a query letter for your picture book, middle grade, or YA novel.
The Darer:
Stacy Whitman specializes in fantasy and science fiction for children and [...]
NEW! Full Manuscript Critique from Author Phoebe Kitanidis (Contemp Paranormal)
The Prize: One full manuscript critique of your fiction middle grade (244 pages, double-spaced max) or young adult novel (double-spaced, up to 100,000 words – DANG!).
The Darer: Prior to becoming a full-time fiction writer, Phoebe Kitanidis was [...]
NEW! Critique Package from Author Kathryn Fitzmaurice (Contemp Realistic)
I care because my own twelve year old son attends a Title I school and I am aware of the many needs a school like this has.
The Prize: One critique of the first fifteen pages of your double-spaced fiction middle grade [...]
NEW! Full manuscript critique from Author Jennifer Cervantes (Fantasy)
Plain and simple: I love kids and as an advocate of education in my own community I have seen the power of education.
Elie Wiesel said: “Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.” [...]
NEW! Chapter Critique from Author Angie Frazier (Historical)
The Prize: First chapter critique of the first ten double-spaced pages of your fiction middle grade or young adult novel (2500 words max).
The Darer: Angie’s debut historical fiction YA novel, EVERLASTING (Scholastic Press, June 2010), is the [...]
NEW! MG Series Proposal Critique from Author Anne Mazer, Amazing Days of Abby Hayes (Contemp)
The Prize: One critique of your middle grade series proposal. Wow! That includes a sample chapter, an outline, and your pitch letter.
The Darer: Anne Mazer grew up in a family of writers in upstate New York. Intending to [...]