- Publication Season/Year: Fall 2009
- Publisher: Lee and Low Books
- Release Date: TBD
- ISBN (hardcover): TBD
- ISBN (paperback): TBD
Cora keeps watch as presents and family stream through the door. The house is abuzz with aunts, uncles and cousins. Pots and pans are filled with food from their family’s native Cape Verde. A big party, birthday cake and all, will take place on the beach. It seems like her family has thought of everything to celebrate Grandma’s 70th birthday but when Cora and Grandma take a nighttime walk on the beach, it is Cora that notices there is something else Grandma needs to make her celebration complete.
Janet Costa Bates
The Author: Janet Costa Bates
Location: Boston, MA
Janet Costa Bates lives just south of Boston, MA with her husband, sons and the worst behaved beagle in the entire world. Mother of two talented teenage athletes, she spends a lot of her spare time sitting on bleachers. She is also a career counselor at a university; a very cool job which they actually pay her to do.
In case you’re interested, here are her other publishing credits/awards for children:
- Lee and Low 2006 New Voices Award – Honor Award for Seaside Dream.
- Pockets Magazine 2006 Fiction Contest – Get Together Stew, published May 2008.
- Highlights for Children 2004 Fiction Contest -Go Kerplunk, published September 2005.
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