Great news! A PLACE WHERE HURRICANES HAPPEN is on the Cooperative Children’s Book Center’s (CCBC) Choices list for 2011! The 2011 edition of CCBC Choices, CCBC’s picks for the best children’s and young adult books published in 2010 will be available after March 5.. (Citation list of books in CCBC Choices 2011)
CCBC Choices is created annually by the librarians of the Cooperative Children’s Book Center and published by the Friends of the CCBC, Inc. Thank you for this wonderful honor. Congratulations also to Lauren Castillo for CHRISTMAS IS HERE and all other talented book-makers who made the list!
A second congrats to Renée Watson for making the list twice with her middle grade novel, WHAT MOMMA LEFT ME. Woot woot (raising the roof)!