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Ingrid Ricks

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Ingrid Ricks is a Seattle-based journalist, author, and teen mentor who leverages the new world of digital publishing to give teens a voice. Using her New York Times bestselling debut memoir Hippie Boy: A Girl’s Story as a catalyst, she recently co-launched WeAreAbsolutelyNotOkay.org, a nationally recognized mentoring/publishing program that helps teens find their voice by writing and publishing their personal stories.

Ingrid’s essays and stories have been published in Salon, Ladies’ Home Journal, The Advocate and a variety of other publications. She has also written extensively for The African Children’s Choir, an international relief organization that has been featured on CNN International, The Ellen DeGeneres Show and American Idol.

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Hippie Boy Makes New York Times Bestseller List!

It has been an amazing couple of weeks—starting with a letter notifying me that I’d been awarded a 4Culture grant to support my next book project, Determined to See. This was followed by the launch of our new teen story collection, You’ve Got It All Wrong, and then discovering that Hippie Boy made #20 on the June 16th New York Times bestseller list!

I’m so grateful and excited about all of it—but i Read more of this blog post »

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	Hippie Boy: A Girl's Story 3.70 avg rating — 1,365 ratings — published 2011 — 10 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
	Focus - A Memoir 3.73 avg rating — 475 ratings — published 2009 — 4 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
	We Are Absolutely Not Okay: Fourteen Stories By Teenagers Who Are Picking Up the Pieces by Marjie Bowker (Editor), Ingrid Ricks (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.80 avg rating — 148 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	A Little Book of Mormon (and Not So Mormon) Stories 3.34 avg rating — 140 ratings — published 2011 — 4 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
	13 Billion to One: Winning the $50 Million Lottery Has Its Price by Randy Rush (Goodreads Author), Ingrid Ricks (Goodreads Author) (Primary Contributor) 4.16 avg rating — 58 ratings — 4 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
	Hippie Boy: A Girl's Story -- A Memoir 4.45 avg rating — 38 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
	You've Got It All Wrong by Ingrid Ricks (Goodreads Author) (editor), Marjie Bowker (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	We Hope You Rise Up by Ingrid Ricks (Goodreads Author) (editor), Marjie Bowker (Editor), Dave Zwaschka (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2015	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
	Behind Closed Doors: Stories From the Inside Out (We Are Absolutely Not Okay Book 3) by Ingrid Ricks (Goodreads Author) (editor), Marjie Bowker (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2014	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
	Dear Mr. President: Teen Voices from Across the Country by Ingrid Ricks (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Thea Chard (Editor), Juli Russell (Cover) 0.00 avg rating — 0 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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“A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream.”
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“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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message 1: by Michael

Aug 23, 2014 05:08PM

Ingrid, congratulations on your literary successes, and thanks for being a Goodreads friend. Hope you'll put my Prohibition-era mystery, The Yankee Club on your to-read list. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

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