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Yvonne Ventresca is an award-winning author and a workshop presenter with an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her published work includes the young adult novels PANDEMIC and BLACK FLOWERS, WHITE LIES, as well as two nonfiction books and numerous short stories.

Yvonne's debut, PANDEMIC, won a Crystal Kite Award from the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. "This fast read will appeal to fans of Susan Beth Pfeffer’s LIFE AS WE KNEW IT," Booklist said. It was reissued in 2022.

Her young adult novel, BLACK FLOWERS, WHITE LIES (Sky Pony Press, 2016) won a National IPPY Gold Medal for YA fiction in 2017. Justine Magazine said "This one will keep you guessing" and according to BuzzFeed, BLACK FLOWERS, WHITE LIES "definitely won ...more

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	Pandemic 3.78 avg rating — 1,103 ratings — published 2014 — 12 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
	Black Flowers, White Lies 3.59 avg rating — 466 ratings — published 2016 — 5 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
	Prep for Doom by E.R. Arroyo (Goodreads Author), Laura Albins (Goodreads Author), Amy Bartelloni (Goodreads Author) 4.42 avg rating — 203 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Avril Lavigne 4.74 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2006 — 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
	Voyagers: The Third Ghost by Yvonne Ventresca (Goodreads Author), Sherry Ellis (Goodreads Author), Bish Denham (Goodreads Author) 4.61 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	Hero Lost: Mysteries of Death and Life by Jen Chandler, Elizabeth Seckman (Goodreads Author), Roland Yeomans (Goodreads Author) 4.43 avg rating — 21 ratings — 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
	30 Shades of Dead by Kristina Rienzi (Goodreads Author), Christine Clemetson (Goodreads Author), Christine W. Kulikowski 3.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2017 — 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 Second Black Beacon Book of Mystery by Cameron Trost (Goodreads Author), Karen Keeley, Dave Duncan 4.57 avg rating — 7 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
	Careers for the Twenty-First Century - Publishing 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2005	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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“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

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“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

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“Social media is just useless garbage until one random, serendipitous, meaningful connection happens and suddenly the whole world shifts.”
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“The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”
― Albert Einstein

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“Worry is most often a prideful way of thinking that you have more control over life and its circumstances than you actually do.”
― June Hunt