Family Stories from the Silver Valley: by the Students of Canyon Elementary Science Magnet School

by Maureen Doyle McQuerry

Story boards are one way novelists and screenwriters plan their work. In addition to helping authors sequence their story, a story board allows authors to identify their main characters, the story problem, and the conflict. By the last frame, the main character is changed as a result of the story. With help from author Maureen McQuerry, story tellers from the Canyon Elementary School in Silver Valley Idaho created story boards of their own family stories.

134 pages, Paperback

Published June 12, 2016

About the author

All of my books have an element of mystery and magic, even the realistic stories. And as a friend pointed out, there is a library in every one of them. It must be because libraries have always been magical places for me.

Maureen McQuerry is an award winning poet, novelist and teacher. Her YA novel, The Peculiars (Abrams/Amulet 2012) is an ALA Best Book for Young Adult Readers 2013, Bank Street and Horne Book recommended book, and a winner of the Westchester Award. Her most recent book is Beyond the Door (Abrams/Amulet), a Booklist top Ten Fantasy/SciFi for Youth. It is the first in a MG duo that combines, Celtic myth, shapeshifters and a secret code in a coming of age story. The adventure continues in The Telling Stone. Beyond the Door is a current finalist for the WA State Book awards.