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Ellen Wittlinger

Ellen Wittlinger is the critically acclaimed author of the teen novels Love & Lies: Marisol's Story, Parrotfish, Blind Faith, Sandpiper, Heart on My Sleeve, Zigzag, and Hard Love (an American Library Association Michael L. Printz Honor Book and a... Read full bio

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Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. Live and let live.
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Parrotfish is now available in Trade Paperback
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Parrotfish will be released on January 04, 2011 in Trade Paperback
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This Means War! is now available in Hardcover
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Love & Lies will be released on December 29, 2009 in Trade Paperback
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Ellen Wittlinger Revealed

Ellen Wittlinger Q. What is your motto or maxim? A. Live and let live. Q. What 3 personal qualities are most important to you? A. Honesty, loyalty, kindness Q. Which living person do you most admire? A. Nelson Mandela Q. Who is your favorite fictional villain? A. Spike Q. What are your most overused words or phrases? A. I'm tired. Learn more about Ellen Wittlinger

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School Library Journal, December 5, 2011
...Chris Crutcher, Cynthia Leitich Smith and Joseph Bruchac (now that’s a pairing I’d like to see!), Ellen Wittlinger and James Howe, Rita Williams-Garcia and Terry Trueman, Rebecca Fjelland Davis and Terry Davis, and Sarah Ryan with Randy Powell. And...
Care2, November 28, 2011
...community about equality), and LGBT-inclusive youth homeless shelters nationwide. The project has already donated books like Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger and Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez to schools and organizations in Arizona, California, Florida,...
PublishersWeekly.com, November 10, 2011
...included Betsy and Ted Lewin, Jane Yolen, James Howe, Bruce Coville, Mary Downing Hahn, Cynthia DeFelice, Tedd Arnold, Ellen Wittlinger, and many, many other fine, famous, and fun folks. A full list (along with their individual websites) can be found...
After Elton, September 1, 2011
...Will Grayson, despite a gay protagonist, was ineligible because it was co-authored with hetero author John Green. And Ellen Wittlinger, whose incredible portraits of young queers in novels such as Parrotfish, Hard Love and Love & Lies, and had won Lambda...
PublishersWeekly.com, August 8, 2011
...forth (the way we did with everything by Judy Blume), there would be some Sarah Dessen, Jenny Han, Ellen Wittlinger and John Green books. But the books that might have just rocked my world, in a good way, would have been the ones with openly gay...
eclectic / eccentric, September 20, 2011
...For those of you who don't know, Bitch is a feminist pop culture magazine that everyone should subscribe to! They have created a list of the Top 100 Young Adult Books for the Feminist Reader, and I thought I would (finally) share it with you guys.As with...
I'm Here. I'm Queer. What the Hell do I read?, August 5, 2011
...character. And if we can tap into OUR real emotions when we write them, they’ll ring true.Ellen Wittlinger famously said (and I’m doing my best to make her famous for saying it) that she includes GLBTQ characters in everything she writes, even the...
TheHappyNappyBookseller, June 24, 2011
...God Box by Alex Sanchez The It Chicks by Tia Williams Love & Lies: Marisol's Story by Ellen Wittlinger After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson No Such Thing as the Real World: by Various Authors Woodson's "The Company" is abouta Black gay male...