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Beth Kanell

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Mystery & Thrillers, Young Adult

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ABOUT ME

Storytelling is Beth Kanell's native language - and she learned it from her mother, who taught her to fill in the blanks as a story emerged. As a single parent in Vermont, for years she told stories "on the side" and developed a specialty in tales for teens (always starting with something scary!). Endlessly in love with Vermont, she began bringing the most fascinating parts of its history into her narratives, and discovered that what she really likes after all is writing fiction that explores the lives of young people caught up in the force of change. She is also a non-stop mystery reader, so she grapples for new and unusual plot twists, as well as the magic of the Green Mountain state.

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Average rating: 3.67 · 311 ratings · 78 reviews · 11 distinct works

	Darkness Under the Water 3.55 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret Room 3.32 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Long Shadow (Winds of Freedom Book 0) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2018 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cold Midnight 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Ardent Flame (The Winds of Freedom, 2) 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Long Shadow (Winds of Freedom Book 1) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Poetry of Transitions: What Is Poetic Language?

On Thursday July 16 at 6:30 pm in the Davies Memorial Library in Lower Waterford, Vt., I'll be chatting about my new book THRESHOLDS (from Kelsay Books) and what I call the poetry of transitions: how we talk about the significant changes in our lives. Many of those times are not simple, and some are not comfortable!

Examples include welcoming your first baby (or grandchild); losing a parent to age

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Beth liked Brett Ann Stanciu's blog post: Trainwreck. "On the year anniversary of beginning chemotherapy, childishly I crab at my siblings. It’s a small thing—a bad internet connection, a request to make a phone call that might have taken 10 minutes—and I’m angry as all get-out, fury galloping in my b..." Read more of this blog post »
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