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My latest books are CHOICES, and POWERS. (more info below!)
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- Nominated for the Stellar Awards, British Columbia's Teen Choice awards http://www.stellaraward.ca/2009/index.php
- On the New York Public Library (NYPL) Books for the Teen Age, under category “Dealing with it.” http://teenlink.nypl.org/bta_2008-rev.pdf
- Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
- Teensreadtoo Gold Award, and Hall of Fame winner
- Teen book club selection, Whistler Library, Whistler, B.C. (Thanks guys!)
Hurrah for POWERS, which is a runner-up in the paperback category for the Locus Online Bestseller list, Sept. 2009
http://www.locusmag.com/Magazine/2009/Issue09_Bestsellers.html
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Sticky notes rim the mirror in rainbow colors. REMEMBER. DON’T FORGET HIM. READ THE NOTEBOOK. Remember what? Remember who? And what’s this about a notebook? There’s another note, bottom center of the mirror. THE DREAMS ARE REAL.Consumed by guilt over her brother’s death, Choices begins in one time line, then fractures into multiple universes with every decision The only stability, in each reality, is another shifter, Like the branching limbs of a tree, each choice leads to new possibilities. There’s only one problem. You can’t go back and undo a decision. In the end,
Kirkus Reviews, in a starred review, said, "Kathleen's melancholic tale does justice both to the moving story of a girl coming to terms with the death of her brother and to the magical adventure of a universe-shifting girl trying to find her way home"
From POWERS:I let him take my hand. The cold blue flame in his eyes held me, seared me.
"Do you feel it?" he asked. "It's a warm tingle, isn't it?" In your hands, moving up your arms, like a current."
"No." My hands tingled with warmth. It moved up my arms like a current.
"Don't lie to me, Gwen."
"Let me go"
"No."
Then he noticed my scar, a raised white ridge between my index and second finger. He ran his thumb lightly over the scar tissue. I flinched. I hated that scar. I'd earned it through sheer stupidity, trying to separate frozen burgers with a steak knife.
"It's never going to go away," Adrian said in a condescending voice. "I still can't believe you did that."
My heart thumped unevenly. "What do you mean?' "Used Crazy Glue to seal the cut."
I swallowed. "How did you know that?"
"Who could forget?" Adrian said, shaking his head. "All that blood, and you insisting you didn't need stitches."
I looked at Joanne. She looked at me.
"Uh, Adrian?" she said. "You just got here.You couldn't possibly know that."
"...a bewitchingly pulpy and enjoyable fast read." Kirkus Reviews, Sept. 2006
"Told in the alternating voices of Gwen and Adrian, this novel is more than a typical fantasy/science fiction exploration of psychic powers." VOYA, advance review, October 2006
From THE SAME DIFFERENCE:
"You are a little different, Casey, and that makes people feel uncomfortable.”
Different. That was the second time he’d said that. I could feel the anxiety start to percolate through me, like little bubbles in a glass of soft drink.
“What do you mean, I’m different?” I asked.
“Just some of your mannerisms, your voice and stuff,” Scott said.
“What mannerisms? What about my voice?” I demanded. My stomach was complaining now, growling that the cheese sandwich I’d just eaten wasn’t sitting well.
“Nothing. It’s really nothing, Casey. Everyone is different, you know. Everyone is unique. You don’t have to change just to fit someone else’s expectations.”
“But, I want to change. I don’t want to be different,” I said.
"Jacobs has painted a realistic, unusual portrait of Asperger's Syndrome." MidWest Book Review, March 2001