Jennifer Roy, author of over fifty books, will be the featured writer at Cole this year! Ms. Roy will conduct a morning workshop for Cole participants on Wednesday, July 10. Cole is partnering once again with the Voorheesville Public Library on the event.
Ms. Roy is the author of over fifty books, ranging from young adult fiction to early reader and picture books. Her latest, Playing Atari with Saddam Hussein (at left), was released in 2018 and tells the story of Ali and his family in the wreckage of Basra during the Gulf War. Based on a true story, this YA novel is timely and important.
She is best known for fiction including Yellow Star, which won a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Award (2006), Sydney Taylor Honor Award, The William Allen White Children’s Book Award (2009), a New York Public L Book, an ALA Notable Book, National Jewish Book Honor Award, and received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, VOYA and Booklist. She has written 35 educational books for children ages 5–16, including the “You Can Write” series. (Wikipedia)
More information about Ms. Roy can be found on her website.
The Cole Summer Writers Institute 