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Lisa Yee Author Visit Kit

Author Visit Kit

By Lisa Yee

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Lisa Yee has been an inventor, a hand model, and was once paid to eat chocolate. She's been part of the Official Olympic Committee Torch Run Caravan (until the police requested that she leave). And has the second largest collection of Winnie-the-Poohs in America. 

Lisa's writing assignments have included cans of refried beans, a speech for a President of the United States, and television specials for Disney.

With the publication of Millicent Min, Girl Genius, Lisa has realized her lifelong dream of becoming an author. In 2004, Lisa was named the first recipient of the prestigious Sid Fleischman Humor Award. Stanford Wong Flunks Big, her second novel for Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic, has been named an ALA Notable Book. It chronicles the same summer as Millicent's novel, only from her enemy's point of view. In 2007, So Totally Emily Ebers, completed  the Millicent Min trilogy. Absolutely Maybe, the story of Maybelline Chestnut's quest for her real dad, a new life...and a really great taco, marks her young adult debut.

Lisa's books have also been named a Bank Street Book of the Year, IRA Children's Choice Award, CCBC Choice Award, and nominated for multiple state awards.

Her informative and entertaining presentations cover the amazing, strange, and sometimes painful (ouch!) steps it takes to create a bestselling book, a lively reading with an assist from an unsuspecting audience member, the secret to successful writing, and Q & As.

Author's home: South Pasadena, California
Authors Web site: http://www.lisayee.com/
Suggested audience: Grades 4-12, professional groups, conferences, writer's groups
Maximum presentations per day: 3
Honorarium $1,600 per day plus expenses
                     $2,000 per day plus expenses when air travel is involved, $1,900 per day plus expenses when more  than one day is scheduled.

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  So Totally Emily Ebers by Lisa Yee Lisa Yee charmed audiences with the hilarious "Millicent Min, Girl Genius" and revealed another side of the story in "Stanford Wong Flunks Big -Time". Now readers can meet Millie's best friend and Stanford's big crush! After her parents' divorce, Emily had to move to California with her mom. Now she writes letters to her rock-star dad about travel ("How did the pioneers do it? Did they have to ride with their mothers? "), her new friends, and how much she misses him - though she does still have his credit card. . . . Emily Ebers may be starting over, but she's going to come out on top. $5.99 books;paperback books;paperbacks | Ages 9-12

  
  So Totally Emily Ebers
  Ages 9-12 $5.99
  
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  	Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time by Lisa Yee In a hilarious sequel to Millicent Minn, Girl Genius, Stanford must forego celebrity basketball camp for summer school and afternoon tutoring with Millicent. Soon the former adversaries grudgingly discover that they have much in common, as they help each other through messy predicaments. $5.99 Paperback Book | Grades 6-9

  
  Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time
  Grades 6-9 $5.99