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Tony Varrato

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Born

Salisbury, MD, The United States

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http://www.tonyvarrato.com

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Young Adult

Influences

Koontz, Patterson, Gaiman, and Flemming

Member Since

August 2008

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I am a high school English teacher and YA author.

Both my YA books "Fakie" and "Outrage" were chosen for YALSA's 2009 Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers.

"Fakie" was chosen as "Honor book" for Nebraska's Golden Sower Award for 2010-2011 and nominated for New Jersey's Garden State Teen Book Awards and the Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award for 2011.
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Top Student Novel Picks for 2016

When my district switched our classroom websites to Blackboard, I lost years of student book recommendations.

So as one of the last assignments, I asked my ninth graders to pick their favorite independent novel from this year and write one sentence why they liked it. So you can stock your classroom libraries for next year, the top vote-getters with unedited rationales follow.

The Wake series by Lisa

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Tony Varrato’s books

Average rating: 3.64 · 207 ratings · 62 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Fakie 3.69 avg rating — 181 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Outrage 3.29 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Last Scar 3.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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