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Season 8, Episode 4: Jamie Sumner, Author of ROLL WITH IT

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This week we to talk Jamie Sumner, a middle grade author living in Nashville who’s wonderful novel Roll With It is earning rave reviews since its release in October, including starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus and Booklist.

Her second and third middle-grade novels with Atheneum Books for Young Readers (Simon & Schuster) will be coming out in 2020 and 2021. She is also the author of the nonfiction book on motherhood, Unbound. 

Jamie has written for the New York Times and the Washington Post as well as other publications and is the reviews editor at Literary Mama. 

She’s also a mom to a son with cerebral palsy and she writes and speaks about disability in literature. She loves stories that celebrate the grit and beauty in all kids. She and her family live in Nashville, Tennessee. Visit her at www.jamie-sumner.com. 

You can also listen using any number of podcast platforms and apps including Spotify, Breaker, Pocket Casts, Radio Public, Stitcher, and Google Podcasts.

Show Notes:

Things we mention (or forget to mention) that you should check out:

Disclosure: By the way, all of these links are affiliate links, so if you buy something, you pay the same, but Nora gets a few pennies for her big 8th grade trip fund.

Season 8, Episode 3: Award Winning Author Julie Sternberg

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This week we to talk Julie Sternberg, a middle grade author living in Brooklyn who writes charming stories about everyday kids.

Julie is the author of the best-selling LIKE PICKLE JUICE ON A COOKIE; its sequels LIKE BUG JUICE ON A BURGER and LIKE CARROT JUICE ON A CUPCAKE; THE TOP-SECRET DIARY OF CELIE VALENTINE series; and the picture book BEDTIME AT BESSIE AND LIL’S. 

Her books have received many accolades, including: LIKE PICKLE JUICE ON A COOKIE is a Gryphon Award winner and a Texas Bluebonnet Award finalist; LIKE BUG JUICE ON A BURGER is a Gryphon Honor Book, a Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Awards Nominee, and an Illinois Monarch Award Finalist; and LIKE CARROT JUICE ON A CUPCAKE was named An Amazon Best Book of 2014 for kids ages 6-8.  The JUICE series as a whole has been named to the Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books’ Stellar Series List.

Before becoming a writer, Julie worked as a public interest lawyer.  She graduated from Princeton University with highest honors and holds a JD from Harvard Law School and an MFA in Creative Writing from the New School.

You can also listen using any number of podcast platforms and apps including Spotify, Breaker, Pocket Casts, Radio Public, Stitcher, and Google Podcasts.

Show Notes:

Things we mention (or forget to mention) that you should check out:

  • Julie’s middle grade novel Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie, which is book one of the JUICE series.
  • Julie’s mailing list! Join now and get “Really, You’ll Like These,” her list of ten fabulous children’s books that somehow never make it onto standard top-ten lists.
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Disclosure: By the way, all of these links are affiliate links, so if you buy something, you pay the same, but Nora gets a few pennies for her big 8th grade trip fund.