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Kim Culbertson



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Kim Culbertson

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born
June 06, 1974

gender
female

place of birth
La Mesa, CA

website

genre
Literature & Fiction, Children's Books

influences
Judy Blume, John Hughes, Nick Hornby, Ethan Canin, pretty much everything by Cameron Crowe, Michael Dorris, Richard Russo, Kent Haruf, Barbara Kingsolver, Curtis Sittenfeld, John Green

member since
October 2007


about this author

SONGS FOR A TEENAGE NOMAD will be reissued by Sourcebooks in Fall of 2010!

In June of 2007, my first young adult novel SONGS FOR A TEENAGE NOMAD was published by Hip Pocket Press. The book won the 2007 London Book Festival in the teenage category and was featured at the 2007 APLUS conference of personalized learning schools. It was also selected as a 2007 USA Book News Best Books Finalist in the teenage category and as a book club book for AzTeen magazine's Jan/Feb 2008 issue.

The book was named the winner for the 2008 Ben Franklin Awards: Best New Voice in YA Fiction and given the silver medal for the 2008 IPPY Awards in YA Fiction. It also was named the winner of the 2008 Next Generation Indie Book Awards: YA ...more




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My five year old daughter loves the book ISH by Peter Reynolds. It's a lovely little story about being creative without needing to be "perfect," that the joy of creating far outweighs the need for an exact product. When she draws something now, she tends to say "This doesn't look like a lighthouse, Mommy, but it looks lighthouse-ish." In the book, the main character learns that... ...more
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avg rating: 4.36 | 50 ratings | 22 reviews | 1 distinct work | 4 fans
Songs for a Teenage Nomad Songs for a Teenage Nomad
by Kim Culbertson (Goodreads author)
avg rating 4.35 — 49 ratings — published 2007
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Lucy Scavinger Points Captain Average in the Right Direction (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters   —   updated Jun 16, 2009 01:20PM
description: A little short I wrote as an intro to teaching the college essay with some of my students.
Guzzle (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters   —   updated Dec 13, 2008 10:13AM
description: Short short published on CANARY
Sunlight (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters   —   updated May 23, 2008 01:07PM
description: Reprinted by pemission of Cricket Magazine Group, Carus Publishing Company, from CICADA magazine, September/October 2003, Vol. 6, No. 1, (c) 2003 by Carus Publishing Company.
Boys With Cars (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters   —   updated Mar 29, 2008 06:54PM
description: This is the short story from my website. It is young adult/teen fiction. You can also read it at www.kimculbertson.com
Blue (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters   —   updated Jan 17, 2008 07:18PM
description: Short Story
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Wishes, Lies, and Dr... Kim marked as to-read:
Wishes, Lies, and Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry (Paperback)
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The Book of Totally... Kim marked as to-read:
The Book of Totally Irresponsible Science: 64 Daring Experiments for Young Scientists (Hardcover)
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Henry James
"Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind."
Henry James


W. Somerset Maugham
"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
W. Somerset Maugham


William Butler Yeats
"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.""
William Butler Yeats


"The aim of writing poetry is to enable readers a little better to enjoy life or a little better to endure it.""
— W.H. Auden


Emily Dickinson
"I dwell in possibility…"
Emily Dickinson


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1335032 Wow, what an impressive bio Kim. Thanks for adding me as your friend. I'm currently co-authoring a novel with a long-time friend that's a suspense with romantic elements. However, my biggest desire is to write children's books. I'd love to stay in touch.
Big congrats to you!
Blessings,
Jeannie


706164 Congratulations on your book receiving the award! That had got to be exciting :)


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Keep on pushing your book Songs for a Teenage Nomad any which way you can, Kim, I've added it to my to-read list.


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