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
Critique from Agent Elana Roth, Caren Johnson Literary Agency
The Prize: One critique of the first five double-spaced pages of your fiction middle grade or young adult novel.
The Darer: Elana began her career at Nickelodeon Magazine, which made her fall in love with children’s publishing. Afterward, [...]
Critique from Author Kate Messner (Contemp Realistic)
“If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where
they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay
alive.” – Barry Lopez, Crow and Weasel
I’m not sure if this quote has [...]
Critique from Agent Jamie Weiss Chilton, Andrea Brown Literary Agency
I vividly remember third grade, and so many of the books I read in elementary school are still close to my heart. I think all kids should have access to a variety of books. Thanks for the opportunity to get [...]
Critique from Agent Jennifer Mattson, Andrea Brown Literary Agency
The Prize: One critique of the first five double-spaced pages of either your middle grade, young adult novel, or picture book.
The Darer: Jennifer loves picture books that are real, storytime-ready stories (no one-joke tales or mood pieces), and has a [...]
Query Letter Critique 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 a query letter your your fiction middle grade or young adult [...]
MG Critique 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 novel.
The [...]
Author Marketing Consulting Services Package from Shelli Johannes-Wells
Every child deserves a safe, supportive, and creative environment in which to learn. No matter what a child’s life is like, books have the magic ability to transport any child away from their troubles and into animaginary world. This is [...]
Critique #2 from Author Greg Trine (Action/Adventure/Fantasy)
I would like to support Tulakes because it’s the right thing to do.
The Prize: One critique of the first five pages of your double-spaced fiction young middle grade or chapter book manuscript.
The Darer: Greg Trine lives in his hideout [...]
Critique 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 five pages of your double-spaced fiction middle grade [...]
Critique #1 from Agent Jennifer Laughran, Andrea Brown Literary Agency
The Prize: One critique of the first five-pages of your double-spaced manuscript for any fiction middle grade novel.
The Darer: “Jennifer Laughran is an associate agent at Andrea Brown Literary Agency. She represents authors of Middle Grade and Young Adult [...]