Day 6 Item #6: Author Jenny Lundquist

The Write Stuff for Boston Auction Day 6

Item #6: MS critique, signed copies of SEEING CINDERELLA and PLASTIC POLLY from Author Jenny Lundquist

You are bidding on:

·         Signed copy of SEEING CINDERELLA

·         Signed copy of PLASTIC POLLY

·         10 page critique for MG or YA manuscript

Opening Bid: $30
Auction Begins: Tuesday 4/30 @ 10:00AM EDT
Auction Ends: Saturday 5/4 @ 10:00PM EDT

About SEEING CINDERELLA: Calliope Meadow Anderson is terrified to start seventh grade. Not that the summer has been so great— her overachieving best friend, Ellen, is slipping away, her parents’ marriage is falling apart, and to top it all off, she has to get glasses the day before school starts. Life isn’t going too smoothly.

But things get unexpectedly weird when Callie meets her wacky optometrist and receives a pair of glasses so ugly they make braces and headgear look cute. But pretty soon, Callie makes a freaky discovery. Her glasses have magic powers: they can read people’s thoughts (and she’s pretty sure they repel boys, too).

Callie uses her new glasses to navigate middle school life and learns things she never knew about the people around her. That overachieving Ellen isn’t so super confident, after all. That neither of her parents are who she thought they were. That it’s a good idea to make sure your crush Knows Your Name before you spy on his thoughts. But when the glasses show Callie that Ana Garcia—a new student from Mexico and Callie’s Spanish tutor—has become a real-life Cinderella in her uncle’s house, she has to make a choice. Will she stay in the shadows and hide behind her magic glasses, or step out of the background and stand up for her friend?

About PLASTIC POLLY: Popularity has its pitfalls, and Polly is discovering them firsthand in this middle-grade M!X novel. Polly Pierce likes being the second-most popular girl at Winston Academy, right after her BFF, Kelsey. Popularity comes with special privileges, like a seat at the best table in the cafeteria and a coveted spot on the planning committee for the school’s big talent show competition, Groove It Up! And since all Polly has to do is agree with whatever Kelsey says, being popular is easy—even if kids do call her “Plastic Polly” behind her back.

But when a freak accident takes Kelsey out of the picture, Polly is suddenly in charge of the Groove It Up! committee. She’s not prepared for her new status—and neither is anyone else. Backstabbing friends, an intimidating crush, and diva demands from an injured Kelsey all threaten to derail Polly’s plans. Can she prove to everyone—and herself—that she has a personality of her own?

BIO: Jenny Lundquist grew up in Huntington Beach, CA, and she was shy, not popular. She spent a lot of time hiding out in her room reading books and writing stories she never finished. Eventually she got over her shyness (mostly) and graduated from Biola University. She still spends a lot of time reading and writing, but now she finishes her stories. Jenny is the author of the Aladdin M!X title Seeing Cinderella. Jenny and her family live in Northern California. You can find her online at www.jennylundquist.com

Jenny Lundquist’s website: www.jennylundquist.com

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