{"id":12234,"global_id":"inprinthouston.org?id=12234","global_id_lineage":["inprinthouston.org?id=12234"],"author":"21","status":"publish","date":"2017-11-12 11:27:29","date_utc":"2017-11-12 17:27:29","modified":"2018-03-20 18:26:34","modified_utc":"2018-03-20 23:26:34","url":"https:\/\/inprinthouston.org\/event\/inprint-ann-martin-reading\/","rest_url":"https:\/\/inprinthouston.org\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/events\/12234","title":"Inprint Ann Martin Reading","description":"<blockquote><p><strong><img class=\"alignleft wp-image-12236\" src=\"http:\/\/inprinthouston.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/smallRAIN-REIGN_cover-image-1-300x441.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"317\" \/>A girl, the dog she loved, and a hurricane<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Free signed copy of\u00a0<em>Rain Reign<\/em>\u00a0to the first 200 families<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Free and open to the public, doors open at 2:30 pm<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Conversation and reading by Ann M. Martin<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Hurricane Harvey dog stories shared by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houstonpetsalive.org\/\">Houston Pets Alive!<\/a>, which opened a shelter and saved more 1,800 dogs and cats after the storm<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Bus scholarships available for student groups, contact <u><a href=\"mailto:info@inprinthouston.org\">info@inprinthouston.org<\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Book sale, signing, and meet the author following the event*<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enjoy an afternoon with Newbery Honor Award winner Ann M. Martin as part of <em>Cool Brains!<\/em> Inprint Readings for Young People, a fun literary event for the whole family. To download a flier for the event <a href=\"http:\/\/inprinthouston.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Martin_eBlast.pdf\"><strong>click here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ann M. Martin is the beloved author of more than 35 books in the popular Baby-sitters Club series. Her other novels for middle-grade readers, ages 8-12, include\u00a0<em>Ten Rules for Living with My Sister<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Ten Good and Bad Things About My Life<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Everything for a Dog<\/em>. She won a Newbery Honor Award for\u00a0<em>A Corner of the Universe.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She comes to Houston to share her\u00a0<em>New York Time<\/em>s bestseller\u00a0<em>Rain Reign<\/em>, a powerful story about Rose Howard, a girl on the autism spectrum, the dog she loves, and a hurricane that changes everything.\u00a0<em>The New York Times Book Review<\/em>\u00a0writes, \u201cAnn M. Martin, a Newbery Honor winner, offers this affecting, elegantly burnished middle-grade book about a girl with autism. . . . And yet the book isn\u2019t actually about autism, or even any coming-of-age theme. 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