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Julie A. Swanson

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Julie Swanson grew up on Michigan's "Little Finger", the Leelanau Peninsula, where many of her stories are set, but has lived in Wisconsin, Iowa, Vermont, New Hampshire, California, and Virginia. For the past twenty-five years she's lived in Charlottesville, VA. Julie writes middle grade and young adult novels and enjoys sports, the outdoors, "making things" (almost any type of art or craft, woodworking), reading, writing, eating, planting trees, and spending time with family. She suddenly has 6 grandchildren! Good thing she loves kids... ...more

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A Lively Week in Milan

It’s Design Week in Milano and I’m here for the birth of our seventh grandchild (a little girl, born last night!), to spend time with her and her family and help out while she and her parents are in the hospital–and then once Grandpa arrives to join us, we’re going on a little get-away in the Lake Como area. The new baby’s siblings, ages 5 and 3, are beyond excited to meet their little sister in p

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" I know I posted about this a couple weeks ago, but just a reminder. Bluebird & Co. will be there to sell books."
"Chanticleer International Book Awards whittled down their long-list for the Gertrude Warner Awards for middle grade books and released the short list, and North of Tomboy made the cut. Here’s crossing my fingers it makes it to the finalist round…"
" NORTH OF TOMBOY has been chosen as a 2025 finalist in The Wishing Shelf Book Awards.Children’s books (NORTH OF TOMBOY is in Category 3: Books for 9 – 12 year olds) were read and judged by children from 10 UK primary and secondary schools. Winn..." Read more of this blog post »
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Kimberly Behre Kenna drew me in right away, piquing my interest with spunky thirteen-year-old Lola and her uncle’s old mansion over the Connecticut River where she’s ‘locked down’ for the summer. Hoping she won’t have to be sent away to ‘bad girls bo ...more
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