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Posted on September 16, 2009 by Angie

SCBWI WIP Grant

Evidently I received a Letter of Merit in SCBWI’s 2009 Work-in-Progress Grant competition.  Thanks to Kathryn Gaglione–the other Virginia winner–for pointing it out to me.

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Smibert surrounds Bone with a loving, complicated extended family and gives her plot just enough heft for both realism and reader engagement. The coal-field setting is particularly well-drawn, with details such as children at play sliding down a slag heap instead of a snowdrift. Feed-sack dresses aren’t a cliché here, and neither is Smibert’s language, which feels real and down-to-earth, like her characters. “The morning wore on like a sermon on a hot day…

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