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New Hampshire children’s author Joyce Ray’s debut YA historical novel is Feathers & Trumpets, A Story of Hildegard of Bingen, Apprentice Shop Books, 2014. The story chronicles the life of the12th century mystic, abbess, musician and herbalist who recently achieved sainthood in the 21st century. Ray also co-authored the middle-grade title Women of the Pine Tree State: 25 Maine Women You Should Know, as well as other titles in the America’s Notable Women series.
Ray received an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. In 2008, the Vermont Studio Center awarded her an artist's grant.
Ray also writes poetry for adults as well as children, and her poems have been published in several regional journals. On
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Twig and Turtle for Early Readers

One of my finds at the wonderful Bath Book Bash in Bath,Maine two weeks ago was Twig and Turtle, No Hard Feelings by JenniferJacobson. I’m new to this early reader series, coming in at number #6, but nowthat I’ve found it, gift giving for my eight-year-old Grand One, Emily, is inthe bag.

Pop singer Mae, with a hit environmental song and accompanyingdance called Mae’s Say that sisters Twig and

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