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Contemporary, classical in form, spare and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Lisa Fipps
- First published
- 2021
- Pages
- 278
- Publisher
- Thorndike Striving Reader, Cengage Gale, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9781644736425
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With her debut middle-grade novel, ***Starfish***, Lisa Fipps won 13 awards, including the 2022 Michael L. Printz Honor Book Award, and the novel in verse was selected for 45 state award/book lists. Her second novel in verse, ***And Then, BOOM!***, comes out in May 2024. She’s done virtual and in-person author visits with thousands of children in America, Canada, and China, in addition to being a guest speaker and panelist at festivals and conferences. ***Starfish*** has been translated into Turkish, Korean, Spanish, and complex Chinese, and will soon be coming out in four other languages. Lisa is also an award-winning former journalist, and an award-winning former library marketing director
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