5th and 6th Graders!AWARD WINNING AUTHOR COMING

TO CENTRAL SCHOOLMonday, October 29, 2007

We are thrilled to announce that on October 29, Central School, with the support of the PTO and The Book Stall, Winnetka, will have the exciting opportunity to host award-winning author Shannon Hale. As part of a national tour to launch her latest title, Book of a Thousand Days, she will present an in-school workshop to all fifth and sixth graders. Students will have the chance to discuss Hale’s books with her.

We are offering the opportunity to pre-order books by this acclaimed author. Hale suggests reading her books in this order: Goose Girl, Enna Burning and River Secrets. The other two books offered are not part of a series. If interested, please complete the form on the back of this letter by October 19. Your child may bring the book(s) back on October 26, to have it (them) personally autographed following the presentation on October 29.

By purchasing through our program, your child can be one of the first to read the newest book, have a copy autographed by the author, and enable us to bring additional famous and motivational literary speakers to school in the future!

TITLES BY SHANNON HALE

Book of a Thousand Days Goose Girl Enna Burning Princess Academy River Secrets

Note: If you already own books by Shannon Hale which you would like autographed, you are invited to bring the book(s) to Central School Librarian Susan Meyer by Friday, October 26. Each book must have a note inserted indicating student’s name and teacher. Books brought to the library after October 26 will be unable to be autographed.

PLEASE COMPLETE AND RETURN ORDER FORM WITH PAYMENT. MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO THE BOOK STALL. DETAILS ON THE BACK OF THIS FORM.

If you have any questions, please email Event Co-Chairs Julie Stark at jaskarma@aol.com

or Ilyce Tamkin at ilycetamkin@aol.com

Order FormAuthor Shannon Hale– 5th and 6th Grade Visit

Return to Central School Classroom or Library by October 19, 2007

Make checks payable to The Book Stall TOTAL #:_____ TOTAL:_______

Child’s Full Name: ____________________________ Teacher: ______________________________________

PAPERBACK

$ 9.50 X _____ =(# OF COPIES)

HARDCOVER

$19.50 X _____ =(# OF COPIES)

PAPERBACK

$9.50 X _____ =(# OF COPIES)

HARDCOVER $18.25 X _____ =(# OF COPIES)

HARDCOVER $19.50 X _____ =(# OF COPIES)

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** NEWEST RELEASE**

RIVER SECRETSRazo--short, funny and not a great soldier--is sure it's out of pity that his captain asks him to join an elite mission--escorting the ambassador into enemy land. When they arrive in the strange southern country, Razo discovers the first dead body. He’s the only Bayern able to befriend people who can provide information about the ever-increasing murders. He’s the one who must embrace his own talents in order to get the soldiers home again, alive.

Miri’s family has lived forever on Mount Eskel, pounding a living from the stone of the mountain. Miri has dreamed of working in the quarries of her beloved mountainside. But Miri has never been allowed to work there, perhaps, she thinks, because she is so small. Then the king's priests divine Mount Eskel to be the home of the prince’s bride-to-be. The prince will choose her, but first all eligible girls must attend a mountain academy to prepare for royal life. At the school, Miri finds herself confronted by competition and her own desires to be chosen by the prince. When danger comes to the academy and threatens their lives, Miri must find a way to save her classmates.

She was born with her eyes closed and a word on her tongue. Her name was Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, and she spent the first years of her life listening to her aunt’s stories and learning the language of the birds, especially the swans. Based on Grimm’s fairy tale of the princess who became a goose girl before she could become queen, Hale has woven a tale of a girl who must find her own talents before she can lead others.

When Dashti, a maid, and Lady Saren, her mistress, are shut in a tower because of Saren’s refusal to marry a man she despises, the two prepare for a long, dark imprisonment. As food runs low and the days go from broiling hot to freezing cold, Dashti works to keep them fed and comfortable. When Saren’s two suitors—one welcome, the other decidedly less so—arrive, the girls are confronted with both hope and great danger, and Dashti must make the desperate choices of a girl whose life is worth more than she knows.

When Enna’s brother, Leifer, brings home a piece of vellum that teaches him how to set fires Enna cannot decide if this power is one she wants for herself, or something that should be extinguished forever. And when Bayern, their country, goes to war, the choice becomes nearly unbearable. Enna never imagined that the warm, life-giving energy of a fire could destroy everything she loves, but she must now save herself and Bayern before fire consumes her entirely.