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Benjamin Alire Saenz

Benjamin Alire Saenz

Benjamin Alire Sáenz is an American Book Award-winning author of poetry and prose for adults and teens. His first novel for young adults, Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood was an ALA Top Ten Book for Young Adults and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His second novel for teens, He Forgot to Say Goodbye won the Tomas Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award and the Southwest Books Award (Border Regional Librarians Association) and was a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age. A former Wallace E. Stegner Fellow in poetry, Sáenz is a professor in the creative writing department at University of Texas, El Paso.

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He Forgot to Say Goodbye will be released on March 09, 2010 in Trade Paperback
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Authors on the Web

Happy Latino book month!
Examiner.com, May 19, 2009
...at least one Latino/a author at any given time. Currently, I am reading Carry Me Like Water by Benjamin Alire Saenz. Here's a blurb about the book courtesy of Gina Ruiz' review on www.blogcritics.org: All in all, it is an amazing story, a commentary on...
Texas-related books, authors honored
Dallas Morning News, April 19, 2009
...Thousand Yard Stare: Tom Lea's World War II Paintings, Drawings, and Eyewitness Accounts, from Texas A&M Press. Benjamin Alire Saenz's A Perfect Season for Dreaming (Cinco Puntos) was named best children's book. And Claudia Guadalupe Martinez's The Smell...
Favorite Books of 2009 - Two A Day +1
TheHappyNappyBookseller, January 6, 2010
...In Mike We Trust by P. E. Ryan Dramarama by E. Lockhart Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood by Benjamin Alire Saenz The Ring by Bobbie Pyron 15 Favorite Sports Books The Prince of Fenway Park by Julianna Baggott You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?! by Jonah...
It's been awhile....
YA Books and More, December 31, 2009
...and Wizard by James Patterson Coffeehouse Angel by Suzanne Selfours Last Night I Sang to the Monster by Benjamin Alire Saenz Lockdown by Alexander Gordon Smith Purge by Sarah Littman Lost Symbol by Dan Brown And sitting on my nightstand are: The...
Season Thanks!
Crazy Quilts, December 30, 2009
...by co ordinating the Reading in Color Book Exchange.  Lucky me received He forgot to Say Goodbye by Benjamin Alire Saenz. My giftor??   Susan/ColorOnline/organizer of the Christmas card exchange .Triple thanks Susan for the wonderful book, warm card...
Latino/a Authors
American Taíno, September 28, 2009
...Ana Castillo Andres Resendez Angel Vigil Anisa Onofre Ann Hagman Cardinal Aracelis Girmay Barbara Renaud Gonzalez Belinda Acosta Benjamin Alire Saenz Berta Platas Blas Manuel De Luna C.M. Mayo California Poet Caridad Pineiro Caridad Ferrer Carmen Agra...
Latin@ Authors
American Taíno, September 27, 2009
...Ana Castillo Andres Resendez Angel Vigil Anisa Onofre Ann Hagman Cardinal Aracelis Girmay Barbara Renaud Gonzalez Belinda Acosta Benjamin Alire Saenz Berta Platas Blas Manuel De Luna C.M. Mayo California Poet Caridad Pineiro Caridad Ferrer Carmen Agra...
Cynsational News & Giveaways
Cynsations, September 25, 2009
...Kristin Cast , P.C. Cast , Rosemary Clement-Moore , Keith Graves , Heather Hepler , K.A. Holt , Jacqueline Kelly , Rick Riordan , Benjamin Alire Saenz , Rene Saldana, Jr. , Tammi Sauer , Liz Garton Scanlon , Anita Silvey , Cynthia Leitich Smith ,...
Great Multicultural Lit for Summer Reading Lists
My Life in..., April 20, 2009
...and end up at a diner in a town infested with zombies. Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood by Benjamin Alire Saenz This is a coming of age story about Sammy who grows up in the barrio in Las Cruces during the Vietnam War and experiences heartbreak and...
What You're Reading: Spring and Summer Picks
Reading Group Guides Blog, April 3, 2009
...Nan Life of Pi by Yann Martel The Mountain by Raymond J. Steiner Names on a Map by Benjamin Alire Saenz Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay The Secret Life of Bees (paired with the movie) The Sister by Poppy Adams Still Alice by Lisa Genova The Ten-Year...