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In February of 2014, I received an email from the Chair of the Rebecca Caudill Young Readers’ Book Award Committee, her name was Michelle Glatt, and she wrote:
As the Awards Chair for the Rebecca Caudill Young Readers’ Book Award Committee, I am pleased to tell you that your book, A Diamond in the Desert, has been selected for our 2015 master list. Congratulations! Please keep this information confidential until the list is posted at www.rcyrba.org(most likely tonight or Monday morning).
I was thrilled to receive this email. A DIAMOND IN THE DESERT has been my favorite book I have written so far. I seem to get more emails about it from teachers and librarians asking if they can Skype call with me. I have several schools that just want to talk about this book. Next week, I am headed up to Chaminade Prep School, which is in Chatsworth, http://www.chaminade.org/middleschoolto talk to the seventh grade students about the book, and then the week following, I will be doing a presentation at the Downey Public Library. http://www.downeyca.org/services/library/
The link to the Rebecca Caudill website is here: http://www.rcyrba.org
There are twenty other books on the list, which is here:http://www.rcyrba.org/pdf/2015MasterList.pdf
To follow the RCYRBA on twitter, you can go here:https://twitter.com/RCYRBA
I do not think my book will win, there are several other extremely well written books on this list, but I am very happy that it was nominated.
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