Meet the Authors! The following authors will be visiting different grades in our school this year as part of the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia's Writers in the Schools Program! Stay tuned for dates and grades! Jackie Halsey Jackie was born in London, England. After traveling the world for a few years she moved to Nova Scotia with her family. She attended the West Sussex College of Art in England and Mount Saint Vincent University. Before she became a full-time writer, Jackie worked at the Alderney Gate Library. She is the author of five books! Bluenose Adventure tells the story of young boys working on fishing schooners in the 1920s and Explosion Newsie is a picture book about a newspaper boy and the Halifax Explosion. Peggy’s Letters was her first book, based on her mother’s wartime stories. It was a Canadian Children’s Book Center 2006, Our Choice starred selection and was nominated for the Hackmatack Children’s Choice Award and the Rocky Mountain Children’s Book Award in 2007 and was also an Honour Book in the Silver Birch Express Award that year. The Terrible Horrible Smelly Pirate, written with Carrie Muller is another very popular picture book! When Jackie isn't busy writing books, she likes making pottery and volunteering with Feed Nova Scotia. She loves the sea, walking on the beach, tall ships, and watching for whales! She lives in Halifax with her husband in a little old house that looks out over the harbour, where she can keep a look out for rickerty-rackerty pirate ships! Jessica Scott Kerrin Jessica grew up on the Canadian prairies and got her first award for creative writing when she was only in grade three. On the trophy, her writing teacher had misspelled her name, which Jessica found funny because she had trouble with spelling herself! Ever since then, she has tried to write about experiences that make her laugh, like that one. She now lives with her family and their pet tortoise in downtown Halifax in a house so old the floors slope, and all the marbles end up in one corner. She and her family like having pretty cool outdoor adventures, like jungle trekking in Costa Rica and sailing in Croatia and the British Virgin Isles. In addition to being an author, she has had lots of other fun jobs, like working in galleries, dance schools and museums with artists, performers and curators. She has written lots of good books like the Martin Bridge series. Martin is a boy who loves this cartoon astronaut superhero names Zip Rideout. He eats special Zip cereal for breakfast and watches Zip's T.V. show in the afternoon. He loves playing with toy rockets, singing Zip's theme song, and squirting Faster Blasters, however, the trouble is that things often go wrong for him. In the end, Martin finds out that he is a lot more than his superhero. Jessica has also written The Lobster Chronicles, which include Lower the Trap, A Narrow Escape and Spit Feathers. The series is about how life changes for three boys in a little seaside village called Lower Narrow Spit when a ginormous lobster with antennae the size of bicycle spokes is caught in a trap and the whole town is filled with excitement. The Spotted Dog Last Seen Derek Knowles-Collier has to do repair duty at the old graveyard for his grade-six community service project and he is not happy about it. But when it rains one day and the lessons have to take place in a nearby library, he is able to avoid the graveyard altogether, at least for now. One day, a mystery novel arrives with a secret code written inside. It leads Derek to a time capsule filled with clues that may finally put his haunting past to rest. The Missing Dog is Spotted Trevor Tower doesn't mind being short until he's assigned dog-walking duties with Loyola Louden, the tallest girl in class. But the dogs are a wonderful distraction, and so even before Trevor and Loyola vow to solve the mystery of a missing dog that may or may not exist, they become friends despite their differences. This is the standalone sequel to The Spotted Dog is Missing. L.E. Carmichael Lindsey is a scientist and author who loves to talk about science even more than she likes doing science itself! Her published science books cover everything from scoliosis to hybrid cars. Her book Fox Talk was a Benjamin Franklin Awards Silver Medalist, and Fuzzy Forensics: DNA Fingerprinting Gets Wild won the 2014 Lane Anderson Award for exceptional children’s science writing. |
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