Shari Green's Blog

The story I somehow wrote during the year of my daughter’s treatment & palliative care, the story that gave me an island of normalcy in a sea of chaos, stress, & sorrow — friends, it’s going to be a book!! SONG OF FREEDOM, SONG OF DREAMS is a YA historical novel in verse about music… Continue reading New YA historical verse novel

Delighted to get the news that MISSING MIKE has won the Chocolate Lily Book Award! Thank you, BC readers!!! Many thanks to the committee and to BC teachers & librarians, and congrats to chapter book and picture book winners Ian Boothby, Nina Matsumoto, Peter Wohlleben, and Cale Atkinson!

I am SO THRILLED that I get to share another story with readers! Delighted to be working with Groundwood Books on my next MG novel in verse.🏒💛📚

I was honoured and delighted to hear that Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles has been included in the 2017 White Ravens catalogue, an annual international book review catalogue published by the International Youth Library.

Originally posted on PS We're Reading:
We are thrilled to share that at the Youth Media Awards announcements earlier this month, author Shari Green and publisher Pajama Press were awarded the prestigious Schneider Family Book Award for Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess. The Schneider Family Book Awards is an initiative of the American Library…

MACY McMILLAN had quite an amazing weekend … which means I did, too! I’m not at ALA Midwinter, but to my complete shock and amazement, MACY made a couple appearances. On Saturday, the United States Board on Books for Youth announced their 2018 Outstanding International Books list. As if that wasn’t enough faint-then-freakout news for one weekend,… Continue reading

I’m heading to Surrey, BC, tomorrow for the Surrey International Writers’ Conference. It’s going to be a packed-full four days of learning, inspiration, connecting with old friends, and meeting new people who will become old friends. I’ll also be doing a book-signing, along with a great lineup of other authors (maybe some of your faves?).… Continue reading

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