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: Picture Book
PB Critique from Author Kristy Dempsey
I live in a third-world country where popular access to books and good education is extremely limited. The effects of this kind of lack of resources are all around me, and to think that the needs of American children going [...]
PB Critique #1 from Author and Agent Ammi-Joan Paquette, Erin Murphy Literary Agency
The Prize: One double-spaced manuscript critique of any picture book (five pages max.)
The Darer: Ammi-Joan Paquette is known as a bit of globe-trotter. She spent much of her early years in France, then traveled throughout Europe and to Japan before settling [...]
5 Page Critique from Author Brenda Ferber (Contemp Realistic)
The Prize: One double-spaced manuscript critique of any picture book or middle grade novel (first five double-spaced pages max.)
The Darer: Brenda Ferber loves to read, scrapbook, bake, and (when nobody’s watching) sing and dance to her iPod. Her non-writing time [...]
PB Critique from Cynthea Liu
The Prize: A full manuscript critique of your MG or YA novel (including chapter books) – 244 double-spaced manuscript pages maximum. Continue reading