The Author Next-Door: Guest Post by Valerie Stein

Valerie Stein has spent the last 30 years teaching, most recently as Library Media Specialist for a small independent school in Snohomish County. Valerie’s first book is a memoir of her mother’s journey through terminal illness, begun shortly after her death in 1983. The Best of It: A Journal of Life, Love and Dying was published by Homeostasis Press in 2009. She has since taken proprietorship of the Press, inherited from her author father, embarking on a whole new adventure. Her latest book, Time Enough to Shine, is a historical novel set in both Washingtons during World War I, will be published next year. Valerie is currently researching for a middle grade historical fiction series, also set in Washington State. She will soon start blogging with the famous (at least in librarian circles) From the Mixed Up Files.

Here is a far-too-short list of some of Valerie’s lifelong favorite books, in no particular order of preference:

The Source, by James Michener, 

The Velvet Room, by Zilpha Keatley Snyder, 

The Pink Motel, by Carol Ryrie Brink, 

The People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks, 

Becoming Naomi León, by Pam Munoz Ryan (favorite novel to read aloud to 4^th graders ever), 

The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien, 

Boxes for Katje, by Candace Fleming, 

Actual Size, by Steve Jenkins.

Meet Valerie TODAY at 2 pm at the The Author Next-Door event at Snohomish Library.