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TWO NEW BOOKS (AND A THIRD ON THE WAY IN NOVEMBER 2024)

My Literary Confessions

A Witness: “To Forget the Dead Would Be Akin To Killing Them a Second Time.”

How to 1971-72 Underground High School Newspaper You Say You Want a Revolution By Steve Watkins Call it THE FREE PRESS, all caps. And just in case anybody might not get the message, write out the First Amendment underneath the … Continue reading →

STOLEN by NIGHT from Scholastic On May 10, 1940, the Nazis begin their march across Europe, and within weeks, France has fallen. At first, Nicolette’s world seems more or less the same despite the occupation. She and her best friend, … Continue reading →

KIRKUS REVIEW The experiences of a 12-year-old in the Battle of the Atlantic are chronicled in this engrossing historical novel. When a surfacing U-boat destroys their fishing boat and severely injures his older brother, Danny, off the North Carolina coast, … Continue reading →

KIRKUS [STARRED REVIEW] Two brothers try to flee their demons on a canoe trip. Seventeen-year-old, 6-foot, 210-pound linebacker Shane Dupree is a high school football star waiting for a sports scholarship. His older brother, Jeremy, was just as celebrated: he had … Continue reading →

Two news Ghosts of War books from Scholastic–AWOL in North Africa and Fallen in Fredericksburg–and a new YA novel from Candlewick, Great Falls. Here are the covers and publishers’ blurbs.               GREAT FALLS One … Continue reading →

Buy them at your Scholastic school book fair or order them from Amazon.com (or wherever cool books are sold). The Secret of Midway Lost at Khe Sanh

JUVIE [STARRED REVIEW!] Author: Steve Watkins Review Issue Date: August 15, 2013 Online Publish Date: August 3, 2013 Publisher: Candlewick Pages: 320 Price ( Hardcover ): $17.99 Publication Date: October 8, 2013 ISBN ( Hardcover ): 978-0-7636-5509-9 Category: Fiction Once … Continue reading →

February 3rd, 2013, 11:20 am Local woman fights cancer one workout at a time BY STEVE WATKINS FOR THE FREE LANCE–STAR Five days before Christmas, Angie McCormick’s phone rang. It was 8 a.m. and she was home making cookies for … Continue reading →

The Haunting of 307 William Street Steve Watkins Fredericksburg Free-Lance-Star, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2012 The noises at Read All Over Books in downtown Fredericksburg started a year ago. Two employees heard the same thing, though at different times and on … Continue reading →