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Janet Taylor Lisle

Janet Taylor Lisle
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Janet Taylor Lisle

Janet Taylor Lisle's novels for young readers include five selected as Best Books of the Year by School Library Journal: Sirens and Spies, The Lampfish of Twill, Forest, A Message from the Match Girl (from the Investigators of the Unknown series), and Afternoon of the Elves, a Newbery Honor Book. Her most recent title for Atheneum is The Art of Keeping Cool, a Horn Book Fanfare title and winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction.She lives with her family of the coast of Rhode Island.

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Excerpt 1 from The Crying Rocks
Aug 18, 2012
The Crying Rocks will be released on August 15, 2012 in Trade Paperback
Aug 15, 2012
The Crying Rocks is now available in Trade Paperback
Aug 15, 2012
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Chapter 1 from The Crying Rocks
May 03, 2012
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The Crying Rocks has won an award
May 03, 2012
Just So Stories is now available in eBook
Mar 06, 2012
Just So Stories will be released on March 06, 2012 in eBook
Mar 06, 2012
The Crying Rocks will be released on June 21, 2005 in Mass Market Paperback
Jun 21, 2005
The Crying Rocks is now available in Mass Market Paperback
Jun 21, 2005
The Crying Rocks is now available in Trade Paperback
Mar 01, 2005
Just So Stories will be released on June 01, 2002 in Trade Paperback
Jun 01, 2002
Just So Stories is now available in Trade Paperback
Jun 01, 2002
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Jun 01, 2002
The Art of Keeping Cool will be released on May 01, 2002 in Trade Paperback
May 01, 2002
The Art of Keeping Cool is now available in Trade Paperback
May 01, 2002

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East Providence Patch, October 1, 2012
...Eleven Forty Nine East Restaurant, 965 Fall River Ave, Seekonk. Banned Books Event:  Nationally recognized authors Hester Kaplan, Janet Taylor Lisle, Roland Merullo, and Taylor Polites will speak and read from selected banned books in this event...
Bristol Phoenix, October 1, 2012
...EAST PROVIDENCE — Hester Kaplan (pictured) will join fellow authors Janet Taylor Lisle, Roland Merullo and Taylor Polites is speaking and reading from selected banned books in a special event Monday co-hosted by The East Providence Public Library and...
TheDay.com, September 23, 2012
...Taylor Head of Children's Services: Helen Mochetti Children's Librarian: Krystal Laharty Selections: "The Black Duck" by Janet Taylor Lisle; "The Ghost in the Noonday Sun" by Sid Fleischman; "Left for Dead: Lincoln Thall's Story" by Tim O'Shei AT...
Wicked Local Littleton, June 20, 2012
...Astrid Lindgren, Lauren Child and Tiina Nunnally The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner The Lost Flower Children by Janet Taylor Lisle The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham Stuart Little by E.B. White A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle The Little...
East Providence Patch, October 1, 2012
...Eleven Forty Nine East Restaurant, 965 Fall River Ave, Seekonk. Banned Books Event:  Nationally recognized authors Hester Kaplan, Janet Taylor Lisle, Roland Merullo, and Taylor Polites will speak and read from selected banned books in this event...
Bristol Phoenix, October 1, 2012
...EAST PROVIDENCE — Hester Kaplan (pictured) will join fellow authors Janet Taylor Lisle, Roland Merullo and Taylor Polites is speaking and reading from selected banned books in a special event Monday co-hosted by The East Providence Public Library and...
TheDay.com, September 23, 2012
...Taylor Head of Children's Services: Helen Mochetti Children's Librarian: Krystal Laharty Selections: "The Black Duck" by Janet Taylor Lisle; "The Ghost in the Noonday Sun" by Sid Fleischman; "Left for Dead: Lincoln Thall's Story" by Tim O'Shei AT...
TheDay.com, September 23, 2012
...Taylor Head of Children's Services: Helen Mochetti Children's Librarian: Krystal Laharty Selections: "The Black Duck" by Janet Taylor Lisle; "The Ghost in the Noonday Sun" by Sid Fleischman; "Left for Dead: Lincoln Thall's Story" by Tim O'Shei AT...
Wicked Local Littleton, June 20, 2012
...Astrid Lindgren, Lauren Child and Tiina Nunnally The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner The Lost Flower Children by Janet Taylor Lisle The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham Stuart Little by E.B. White A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle The Little...
School Library Journal, May 28, 2012
...won a Newbery Award Medal proper in 1990, beating out such titles as Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle, Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples, and The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen. I’ve seen fan art by professional...