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Sally J. Pla

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Sally J. Pla is the author of the Schneider Family Book Award winning novel, THE FIRE, THE WATER, AND MAUDIE McGINN, the Dolly Gray Award winning THE SOMEDAY BIRDS, and other acclaimed novels and picture books. Her work has gained many awards and starred reviews, and has been included on many state awards lists and “best book” roundups.

Her books all feature young main characters whose brains work a bit differently -- just like Sally's, as she is neurodivergent. But her books are meant for everyone - all readers, young and old alike.

Sally has appeared on television and radio as an author and neurodiversity advocate. She also runs A Novel Mind, an online resource for neurodiversity/mental-health/disability representation in children's lit.
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Sally J. Pla I love you back, Namrata! :-) I'm so grateful to you for reading and liking The Someday Birds, and for writing me this question. Hearing from kind peo…moreI love you back, Namrata! :-) I'm so grateful to you for reading and liking The Someday Birds, and for writing me this question. Hearing from kind people like you, it always makes my day.

I do have another middle grade novel in development right now. It is set about 100 years in the future, and it is about a young girl who is very different from the world around her, and her quest to save her best friend--who happens to be an unusual animal... It will be at least a year until this story is out in the world, but I deeply hope you will give it a try and like it. I've very much enjoyed writing it!(less)
Sally J. Pla Everything works better when you unplug it for a bit -- including us. So I take a creative break. I leave my laptop for a while. Read all kinds of dif…moreEverything works better when you unplug it for a bit -- including us. So I take a creative break. I leave my laptop for a while. Read all kinds of different, varied, new stuff, for fun. Relax. Make art. Play music. Think. Walk. Eventually, ideas start humming. (less)
Average rating: 4.35 · 7,881 ratings · 1,429 reviews · 7 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Fire, the Water, and Ma...

4.49 avg rating — 3,241 ratings — published 2023 — 16 editions
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The Someday Birds

4.24 avg rating — 3,265 ratings — published 2017 — 22 editions
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Benji, the Bad Day, and Me

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Stanley Will Probably Be Fine

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Ada and Zaz: Band 16/Sapphire

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Rowan and Gemma

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“You got to get out into the field. Secondhand information in this world only takes you so far.”
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“(It’s amazing, the things we are capable of, in our dreams. If only we could harness that power when we wake. —Tiberius Shaw)”
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“I have a public bathroom rating system that I keep in my head, and anything that I think rates lower than two stars, I won't even enter.”
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“If we could look into each other’s hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care.”
Marvin J. Ashton

“Being a person, I had come to
realize, is a communal activity. Dogs know how to be dogs. But people
do not know how to be people unless and until they learn from other
people.”
John Green, Zombicorns

“In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.”
Werner Herzog

“May I propose a Herzog dictum? those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it. ”
Werner Herzog

“Yes, I hate orthodox criticism. I don't mean great criticism, like that of Matthew Arnold and others, but the usual small niggling, fussy-mussy criticism, which thinks it can improve people by telling them where they are wrong, and results only in putting them in straitjackets of hesitancy and self-consciousness, and weazening all vision and bravery.

...I hate it because of all the potentially shining, gentle, gifted people of all ages, that it snuffs out every year. It is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented, having the most imagination and sympathy, these are the very first ones to get killed off. It is the brutal egotists that survive.”
Brenda Ueland, If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

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Kira Hawke Hey there, Sally! Thanks for the friend request - I recognize you from Twitter and it's nice crossing paths again :)


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