August 1st, 2012
The Canadian Children’s Book Centre has announced the 30 authors who will be touring for TD Canadian Children’s Book Week 2013 and we couldn’t be more thrilled: two Pajama Press authors, Sylvia Gunnery (Emily For Real, Spring 2012) and Alma Fullerton (A Good Trade, Fall 2012), have been selected to take part. You can see […]
Posted in A Good Trade, Emily for Real
July 31st, 2012
On virtual tour, that is. August 1, 2012 is the American publication date for Emily For Real, and Sylvia is going to spend the month of August talking about it on blogs throughout Canada and the United States. The celebration kicks off tomorrow at Pajama Press’ own Pajama Party blog with Sylvia’s Top Ten Tips […]
Posted in Emily for Real
July 18th, 2012
…Gunnery nicely captures the way families really are, the sweet, mundane and strained interactions of everyday life. A longtime N.S. junior and senior high school teacher, Gunnery deftly handles the interactions among Emily, her schoolmates and teachers and her best friend Jenn, as well as giving credibility to Emily as the narrator. Emily for Real […]
Posted in Emily for Real
July 6th, 2012
Pajama Press has a brand new blog! Stop by www.pajamapartybooks.com for sneak peeks, extra content, author interviews, and more! Intrigued? Here is a sneak preview of some of the posts you’ll be seeing this summer: Interviews with other orphans who were rescued from the final days of the Vietnam War, just like Tuyet in Last […]
Posted in Acts of Courage, Don't Laugh at Giraffe, Emily for Real, Last Airlift, No Shelter Here, True Blue
June 18th, 2012
After being dumped by her boyfriend, an emotionally shaken 17-year-old high school senior makes friends with an angry young man and discovers that the secure family she always considered rock-solid is riddled with lies and secrets. This is a story about familial ties-ties of blood, ties of love, ties that bind. It’s also about family […]
Posted in Emily for Real
June 13th, 2012
I love books that remind me exactly what it felt like to be a teenager. And books where guys and girls have relationships that aren’t about the luuuurve. And books that have so much real-life drama that they don’t need magic and vampires and the end of the world (although I love those too). […]
Posted in Emily for Real
April 16th, 2012
I enjoyed Emily For Real. The prose flows nicely, the characters are authentic, and Emily’s voice is immediate and compelling. Emily is a real teen, as are her friends. It’s never wise to keep secrets from anyone, especially those you love, but there is one thing in Emily’s life that is not kept secret — […]
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April 3rd, 2012
As the narrator who shares her responses to a stream of stupefying revelations, Emily becomes a real girl, not a cardboard cut-out of a teen… – HelenK, CanLit for LittleCanadians Click here to read the full review
Posted in Emily for Real
March 22nd, 2012
“Young adult readers, especially females, will enjoy reading about the challenges Emily faces and will cheer her on throughout the book, and she attempts to unravel the secrets which have been woven around her. The novel is readable and mostly plot-driven which will keep readers interested in finding out the details and what eventually happens […]
Posted in Emily for Real
