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Taking a post-show blogging break because I am TIRED, y'all. Almost-forty-year-olds are allowed to do this. 

On Saturday,  May 2, at 7:00pm, and Sunday, May 3, at 3:00pm, I'll be wearing a very short poodle skirt and leading a cast of fellow crazy Episcopalians in a tribute to the music and culture of the 1950s.

• Your favorite tunes, from Bill Haley to Elvis Presley!
• Men's synchronized swimming!
• Terrible vintage commercials!
• A real rock-and-roll band!

Will she ever run
out of books? No way. Out of
energy? Maybe.

Local friends! Come see my kid, all green and dwarfy! Showtimes today at 4:30, and 3/12, 3/13, and 3/14 at 7:30pm. Bedford High School auditorium.

http://bhschorusandtheater.weebly.com/bhs-musical.html

Friends in Bedford/Burlington/Billerica and all other B and non-B town in Massachusetts: Come to Flatbread in Bedford tomorrow night, March 10, for a Benefit Night for my church's upcoming mission trip to West Virginia with Appalachia Service Project.

Flatbread will donate $3.50 for every large pizza and $1.75 for every small pizza purchased toward our trip. Takeout and curbside pickup are available, so you don't even have to get out of the car.

Hie thee over to www.cybils.com for all the good news (especially those great-looking graphic novels, eh?)

I am not in Chicago, alas. BUT I AM WATCHING THE WEBCAST!

http://live.webcastinc.com/ala/2015/live/

Reviews posted: 128 (Clearly I'm falling down on the job.)

I feel like I read way more MG than YA this year, but apparently all the love went to YA.

Favorite MG reads of 2014
The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie Berry
The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jenni Holm
The Great Greene Heist by Varian Johnson
El Deafo by Cece Bell

Favorite YA reads of 2014
Falling Into Place by Amy Zhang
When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds
Noggin by John Corey Whaley
Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson

Greatest Nostalgia for One's Junior High Reading Years
The Alfred G. Graebner Memorial High School Handbook of Rules and Regulations

Favorite Jackets of 2014
100 Sideways Miles by Andrew Smith
El Deafo by Cece Bell
Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky
Landline by Rainbow Rowell
When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds
The Truth About Twinkie Pie by Kat Yeh
Noggin by John Corey Whaley
Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith

You can't have him; he's mine.

(Happy birthday, darlin'.)

If you need me today, I'll be speaking for FOUR HOURS at SCBWI Carolinas. With critiques and another workshop on Saturday, let's hope I don't end up losing my voice.

I'm heading to New York for BEA, for two+ days of collective swearing about the Javits Center. See you there?

If you need me, I'll be watching my Cub Scout march in his first Memorial Day Parade. Also, weeping.

BOW BEFORE MY BIRTHDAYNESS, PEASANTS.

I'll be presenting and critiquing at SCBWI-Oregon this weekend (in between sneaking out to visit Powell's and eat at the Kennedy School). Come find me!

Today and tomorrow, I'm doing this. Again. For the last time, AS GOD IS MY WITNESS.

http://ragnarrelay.com/race/capecod

I'll be doing a slew of critiques, participating in an agent panel, and wandering around at the SCBWI New England conference this weekend. Come find me!

https://www.regonline.com/builder/site/default.aspx?EventID=1335372