FIREFLY is an OLA Best Bets Selection 2021!

Thank you to the Ontario Library Association! Their expert nominating committee has chosen FIREFLY as one of their BEST BETS 2021, in the Junior Fiction category. 

This is an incredible honour, since it means that librarians, teachers and parents across the country will choose FIREFLY for their library, classroom and to read at home, too.

Here is the entire list, including best picture books,
teen fiction, non-fiction and adult fiction: OLA Best Bets 2021

The author as Firefly,
in a WWII Flyboy costume
Courtesy Thunder Thighs Costumes 

And KUDOS to my wonderful publisher, DCB Young Readers, for having THREE books on this list! Honestly, to have three of the top ten OLA books of the year chosen, cornering 30% of the selection ... well that's just mind-boggling. Kudos to all the authors, but also to publisher-siblings/authors Leslie Gentile and Valerie Sherrard! 

FIREFLY is having a great run, (it won the Governor General Literary award and is an OLA Red Maple nominee), and is getting a lot of really wonderful and appreciated attention. If the book makes a difference for a reader, if a child learns even just a little more about PTSD or reaches out for help, then my job is done.

BONUS: the wonderful librarians at an Ontario public school

set up a free online QUIZ about Firefly. They gave me permission to share it, enjoy!

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