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Catherine Austen
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Hey, I won!
What a wonderful trip to the Maritimes I had last week. I flewinto Bathurst, New Brunswick, on the 6th to begin my Hackmatack Author Tour. Ispoke with students in elementary schools along the Miramichi (returning to my birthplace of Newcastle) on the 7th and 8th, then met up with fellow Hackmatack nominees Freida Wishinsky and Peter McMahon for the drive to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and...
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All Good Children
— published 2011 — 2 editions |
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Walking Backward
— published 2009 — 4 editions |
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My Cat Isis
by Catherine Austen (Goodreads Author), Virginie Egger — published 2011 |
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26 Tips for Surviving Grade Six
— published 2011 — 3 editions |
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All About Children
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| I loved this book. Each chapter looks at a different artist, and what their self-portraits might suggest. Well-written, informative and provocative without ever being out of reach for someone like me who really doesn't know much about art history. | |
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| I LOVED this book. What could be better than a well-written scary story you can read to your kid in 30 seconds before bed? A whole book of them he can read on his own when he's supposed to be sleeping, that's what. | |
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| I picked it up because of the subject but now I want to know this artist more. Her work here is often gruesome and sad, but it's thought-provoking. | |
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Sexual Assault on the College Campus: The Role of Male Peer Support
by Martin D. Schwartz
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| Excellent book about cultural and peer group influences on sexual violence, and on the extent of sexual violence on campuses. The authors handle the subject well; it's all very accessible. Everyone working with young people should read it, depressing...more | |
“Living with hope is like rubbing up against a cheese grater. It keeps taking slices off you until there's so little left you just crumble.”
― Catherine Austen
― Catherine Austen
“...it saddens me that she has to grow up and make friends with humans. I hear the future coming for her. Stomp, stomp, stomp.”
― Catherine Austen, All Good Children
― Catherine Austen, All Good Children
“I can do it, Max. I still have my thoughts. I just can't say them out loud. I still have my friends. I just can't show them. I still have all the things that used to matter. They're inside of me. They can't take that away.”
― Catherine Austen, All Good Children
― Catherine Austen, All Good Children
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“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
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