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Cathy Riley

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Born

in Newport News, The United States

Website

http://www.cathyriley.wordpress.com

Genre

Young Adult, Fiction

Influences

Pat Conroy, Harper Lee, Margaret Mitchell, Patricia Cornwell

Member Since

January 2014

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Cathy Riley is a high school English teacher in a semi-rural town in Virginia. Somebody I Used to Know is her first novel and was inspired by some of the amazing students she has encountered over the years.

She dreams of one day running a hippo collective, but, until then, she is hard at work on her second novel.

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Average rating: 3.67 · 24 ratings · 2 reviews · 6 distinct works

	All about the ECERS-R A Detailed Guide in Words and Pictures to Be Used with the ECERS-R by Debby Cryer, Thelma Harms, Cathy Riley (Goodreads Author) 3.50 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2003	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
	Somebody I Used to Know 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	All About the ECERS-3™ by NCCER, Cathy Riley (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Tracy Link (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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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“Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

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