by Pam | May 6, 2021 | Book News
Blown away to hear The Parkour Club has just won an int’l Nautilus Book Awards silver for young adult fiction! Available on Amazon. Promotes cross-cultural understanding through an adventure story/thriller. book trailer
by Pam | Mar 18, 2021 | Book News, book review
BOOK REVIEW of THE PARKOUR CLUB Kirkus Reviews March 2021 Two teens fall for one another amid an extreme sport and an extremist plot in Withers and Hayat’s YA novel. Sixteen-year-old Bronte Miller has returned to her hometown of Richland, Washington, after a year in...
by Pam | Jan 21, 2021 | Blog, Books, Boys' LIteracy, education, Literacy, parenting boys, Parenting Tips, Uncategorized
Guess what percentage of kidlit/YA authors are male? The answer is 14%. Why does that matter? Well, given how essential they are as role models in getting boys to read, it’s important that educators and parents know who they are, schools and libraries hire them...
by Pam | Dec 19, 2020 | Blog, book publicity
by Pam Withers, www.pamwithers.com, Vancouver Sometimes publishers pay for the following kind of publicity and sometimes they don’t. Regardless of how well a publisher supports an author, however, they appreciate authors who take some initiative themselves. These tips...
by Pam | Nov 27, 2020 | Blog, Books, education
List includes Arooj Hayat’s & my The Parkour Club, 2020. Please let us know if we’ve inadvertently included middle grade, nonfiction, or any misspellings. All-American Muslim Girl by Nadine Jolie Courtney All We Have Left by Wendy Mills Amal Unbound by...
by Pam | Oct 19, 2020 | Blog, book review
A Goodreads review of The Parkour Club by Mariam Mohsen, a 16-year-old reader in Egypt “a story for the whole world to read and learn from” “Islam is a really sensitive subject and it needs so much research — which both the authors have done...
