Gae Polisner
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Gae Polisner is an American author of young adult and crossover to adult novels. She is also a practicing family law attorney/mediator. She lives in Long Island with her husband and two sons.[1]
Books
[edit]- 2013 The Pull of Gravity[2]
- 2015 The Summer of Letting Go[3][4]
- 2017 The Memory of Things[5][6][7]
- 2018 In Sight of Stars[8]
- 2020 Jack Kerouac Is Dead to Me[9]
- 2020, Seven Clues to Home, with Nora Raleigh Baskin[10]
Awards and honors
[edit]- In Sight of Stars 2018, received a Booklist Starred Review, and is the winner of a 2018 AudioFile Earphones Award; Michael Crouch narrating.[citation needed]
- The Memory of Things won the 2019 Golden Archer Award, Senior Division, Wisconsin's Children's Choice book award, and was a 2017 Wisconsin State Reading List final selection, a finalist for the New York Library Association's Three Apples Book Award, and a finalist for the Pennsylvania Keystone to Reading Book Award. It was the recipient of a 2016 Nerdy Book Club Award for Best Young Adult fiction, and was named one of the Most Anticipated YA's of Fall/Winter 2016 by Barnes & Noble Teen Blog, one of the Best New Books for Teens by the Children's Book Review, one of the 15 Must-Read YA Books of Fall by Brightly.com, and one of the Buzzworthy Books of Summer by YABooks Central.[citation needed]
- The Summer of Letting Go was the winner of the 2014 Nerdy Book Club Award Best Young Adult Fiction 2014, and received the Teen Ink Editor’s Badge of Approval.[citation needed]
- The Pull of Gravity was the winner of the 2011 Nerdy Book Club Award for Best YA Fiction; a nominee for the 2011 Yalsa Readers Choice award[11] and the 2011 CYBIL’s Award; included in the 2012 Bank Street College Best Children’s Fiction and 2011 Pennsylvania School Library Association’s List of Best YA Fiction lists; and a 2013-14 National Battle of the Books Pick.
- Her first manuscript, a 2008 piece of women's fiction titled The Jetty, was a Top Semifinalist in the first ever 2008 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ "Gae Polisner". Macmillan Publishers. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
- ^ "To Sell First Novel, Putting That Marketing Degree to Use". The New York Times. May 1, 2015. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
- ^ "Grief Lessons". The New York Times. May 9, 2014. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
- ^ "Books for Kids: Valuable life lessons in The Summer of Letting Go". Montreal Gazette. August 12, 2015. Retrieved October 8, 2015.
- ^ Alter, Alexandra (December 21, 2017). "A Wave of 9/11 Novels Seeks a New Audience: the Young Reader". The New York Times. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
- ^ Chopin, Allison (September 10, 2016). "The Memory of Things' Is Mesmerizing Teenage Tale Set in Days after 9/11: Book Review". New York Daily News. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
- ^ Faruqi, Saadia (December 6, 2017). "To Remember 9/11, Read A Book". Huffington Post. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
- ^ "Author events on Long Island, week of March 11". Newsday. March 10, 2018. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
- ^ JACK KEROUAC IS DEAD TO ME | Kirkus Reviews.
- ^ "Seven Clues to Home by Gae Polisner, Nora Raleigh Baskin: 9780593119617 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
- ^ "Readers' Choice Nominations". American Library Association. November 15, 2011. Retrieved October 8, 2015.
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