December 2010
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How to Contact Kristin O' Donnell Tubb
Kristin is available online and can be found on Facebook and Twitter! You can find her blog here. You can also contact her by email. And her website is here. You can also discuss her books, her interview, or anything else about her on any on these places above!
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Interview with Kristen O' Donnell Tubb (Part 2)
6. What are some of your favorite books?
A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L’Engle, Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, and recently, The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins.
7. Are there any characters in Selling Hope that you can relate to? If not, which character is your favorite?
I have to admit that I’m a lot like Nick, Hope’s flighty father....
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MERRY CHRISTMAS, BOOK WORMS!
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Interview with Kristin O 'Donnell Tubb (Part 1)
1. You said you’d probably still be going to school if they let you: why? What did you like so much about your school experience?
I loved the teachers who allowed their students to pick and explore a topic that the student loved. Teachers who taught you how to think, how to solve problems - not just how to memorize. I was lucky; I had several teachers like this in middle school, high school and...
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7 Fun Facts from Kristin O' Donnell Tubb about...
SELLING HOPE was written after I was hired on a freelance assignment for Dalmatian Press. The assignment was to write a 64-page activity book about the universe. When researching Halley’s Comet, I found out that in 1910, Earth actually passed through the tail of the comet, and people were prophesying the end of days (much like...
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Featured Author of the Month: Kristin O' Donnell...
Kristin Tubb’s Selling Hope (Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan 2010), is set on the 1910 vaudeville circuit in Chicago, and tells of the (potentially deadly?) approach of Halley’s Comet, and of Hope McDaniels, who cashes in on the fear by peddling anti-comet pills.
Tubb is also the author of Autumn Winifred Oliver Does Things Different...
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It’s May 1910, and Halley’s Comet is due to pass thru the Earth’s atmosphere. And thirteen-year-old Hope McDaniels and her father are due to pass through their hometown of Chicago with their ragtag vaudeville troupe. Hope wants out of vaudeville, and longs for a “normal” life—or as normal as life can be without her mother, who died five years before. Hope sees an opportunity: She invents...