bigger than a bread box by laurel snyder

your ideal date and time for a thirty minute visit.

whether you’ve ever skyped with a classroom visitor before.

how large your group is expected to be, if you have any idea.

how old your students are (include grade).In the body of the email, simply let me know: Interested teachers and media specialists should email me:( laurelsnyder AT hotmail DOT com ) and use the subject line SKYPE VISIT! you want to join up? You want to hang out? You want to know… hhow does this work? To sweeten the deal, the wonderful Random House sales reps have offered to send a FREEEEEE advance copy to the first 30 people who schedule a skype visit with me! THEN I plan to followup with students who might be interested in writing, or asking more questions, via email.

I plan to read a little bit from the book, and field questions from interested students. I plan to talk about being an author, writing for kids, revising and editing, my favorite books, and specifically– about how BIGGER THAN A BREAD BOX took me thirty years to write. I am going to come and visit YOUR SCHOOL, via skype, and meet with your students. AND, the amazing Kate Messner recently introduced me to the wonderful world of skyping with classrooms… AND, I also have these small kids I live with, who make long distance travel and book tours hard. Ages 8 12.Okay, so… I have this new book coming out. Friendship, connection, and understanding are at the heart of this warm, introspective story about the events that shape a person. Through their adventures, Molly's eyes gradually open to the realities outside the hotel walls, while Annie worries about getting home and whether she's changing the future for better or worse. Because Annie knows that Molly will live to old age, they escape Molly's locked room via the fire escape and seize the day. Molly spends her days cloistered away in her 'Lonely Room' because of her asthma she wished for a friend and has no clue that Annie is actually her granddaughter. After a strange storm, however, Annie wakes up 50 years earlier, in 1937, where she meets her grandmother as a curious, kind, and deeply isolated child. When 12-year-old Annie Jaffin and her mother visit Annie's estranged, dying grandmother in the shuttered Baltimore hotel she grew up in, the woman Annie encounters is angry and aggressive. Snyder returns with a story that, like her Bigger Than a Breadbox (2011), offers a relatable heroine and a touch of magic.

Bigger than a bread box by laurel snyder