Book Clubs

Searching for Silverheels Giveaway

Posted by on Dec 22, 2014 in Book Clubs, Giveaway, Librarian Outreach | Comments Off on Searching for Silverheels Giveaway

Searching for Silverheels Giveaway

In celebration of the release of the novel and the companion Book Club Kit, Curious City DPW, author Jeannie Mobley and Margaret K. McElderry Books gave away 20 copies of the novel Searching for Silverheels to these ever so fine Book Club leaders and librarians: Aurora Academy Charter School (Aurora, CO) Pasadena Public Library( Pasadena,CA) San Pedro Library (San Antonio, TX) SUNY New Paltz (New Paltz, NY) Attwood School (Lansing, Michigan) Rockford Road Library (Crystal, MN) Deerfield Public Library (Deerfield, IL) Hancock County Library System Bay (St. Louis, MI) Bernice Vossbeck...

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Roast the Kaiser

Posted by on Nov 22, 2014 in Book Clubs, Book Themed Events, Marketing Advice | Comments Off on Roast the Kaiser

Roast the Kaiser

Marketing children’s book allows one to play in every conceivable era. In Searching for Silverheels by Jeannie Mobley (Margaret K. McElderry Books), the political climate of 1917 Como, Colorado, churns with the declaration of war against Germany, exhibitions of patriotism and accusations of un-American behavior, and a lone cry for the women’s right to vote. The novel opens with 13-year-old Pearl saying that it is “strange how sometimes, even though the whole world is changing around you, everything can feel so much the same.” But, like every girl coming of age, the world starts to...

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