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Tara Sullivan
ABOUT THE BOOK: A shocking human rights tragedy brought to light in a story of heartbreak and triumph. Thirteen-year-old Habo has always been different—light eyes, yellow hair and white skin. Not the...
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Tara Sullivan & the Inspiration for GOLDEN BOY
GOLDEN BOY tells the story of Habo, a 13-year-old albino boy growing up in Tanzania who finds out the hard way that being seen as priceless is much more dangerous than being seen as worthless. And...
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Comparable titles for GOLDEN BOY by Tara Sullivan
GOLDEN BOY Marginalized due to his albinism, thirteen-year-old Habo discovers it’s more dangerous to be seen as priceless than worthless when his family moves to Mwanza, Tanzania, and he must flee for...
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How GOLDEN BOY is Decidedly Different
I wrote a post back in November telling you how GOLDEN BOY is similar to some other books out there. Well, the follow-up question, naturally, is: How is GOLDEN BOY different from other books out...
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Changing the World
The biggest thing I remember about being a kid was that I never really liked being thought of or referred to as a “kid” … because this usually meant being talked down to, being told to leave the room,...
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Telling a Fictional Truth: Violence in GOLDEN BOY
The 2k13 theme for this month is to talk about the content of our books and whether that makes them more appropriate for certain ages than others. With GOLDEN BOY, I’m considering this from an unusual...
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Thinking Outside the Box: One Smart Thing I Did To Sell GOLDEN BOY
One smart thing I did to sell GOLDEN BOY was to dance just a little bit around the edges of the traditional lock-step route to publishing… and it’s what got me my agent! A few years ago, a member of my...
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The Top Three Things I’ve Learned in 2k13
Now that we’re a little more than half way through they year, we’re having a retrospective theme in August, looking back on 2013 so far and sharing some of the things we’ve learned. I, for one, have...
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