White Pine Nomination!!!!

Y'all -- THE SCORPION RULES is officially up for the Forest of Reading's White Pine Award. The Forest awards, run by the Ontario Library Association, are the grandmama of all of Canada's readers' choice awards, which means thousands of high school kids will read these books. (Any teachers finding me here? I live in Kitchener/Waterloo, and I absolutely do school visits all over SW Ontario. I'll go farther afield if we can work something out. Drop me a line.)

I've always wanted to be in the Forest, and I'm so excited! Look at this list!

I'm honoured to be keeping company with rocking writers and friends E.K. Johnston (she has two titles up!) and Lena Coakley. And Tim Wynne-Jones is one of my writing heros. And you can bet I'll be running through this list alongside the teen readers. I already had Calvin on my pile.