{"id":10198,"date":"2020-08-07T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/havecoffeeneedbooks.com\/?p=10198"},"modified":"2020-08-05T11:25:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T18:25:21","slug":"book-blitz-i-am-here-now-by-barbara-bottner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/havecoffeeneedbooks.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/07\/book-blitz-i-am-here-now-by-barbara-bottner\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Blitz: I Am Here Now by Barbara Bottner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Title: I Am Here Now
Author: Barbara Bottner
Genre: YA Historical, Coming of Age
Release Date: 04 August 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Set in the 1960s, Barbara Bottner\u2019s I Am Here Now <\/em>is a beautiful novel in verse about one artist\u2019s coming of age. It\u2019s a heartbreaking, powerful and inspiring depiction of what it\u2019s like to shatter your life\u2014and piece it all back together.
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You can\u2019t trust Life to give you decent parents, or beautiful eyes, a fine French accent or an outstanding flair for fashion. No, Life does what it wants. It\u2019s sneaky as a thief.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maisie\u2019s first day of High school should be exciting, but all she wants is to escape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her world is lonely and chaotic, with an abusive mother and a father who\u2019s rarely there to help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So when Maisie, who finds refuge in her art, meets the spirited Rachel and her mother, a painter, she catches a glimpse of a very different world\u2014one full of life, creativity, and love\u2014and latches on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But as she discovers her strengths through Rachel\u2019s family, Maisie, increasingly desperate, finds herself risking new friendships, and the very future she\u2019s searching for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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About Barbara Bottner:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barbara Bottner has written about 50 books for children of all ages. In May, her first YA novel in free verse, I Am Here Now is coming out from Macmillan (Imprint) She’s written a NY Times Bestseller, as well as staffed prime time sit-com, sold screenplays, published essays and short stories in both national and literary magazines and reviewed children’s books for both the NY and LA Sunday Book Review. Many of her works have been multiply translated and animated, and adapted for short plays. When she was an animator, she won “Best Film For TV” from the Annecy International Animation Festival. When very young, she briefly appeared on stage and in Europe with La Mama Plexus and in television movies. She teaches writing for children privately but won The Distinguished University Teaching Award from The New School For Social Research. Her papers are collected in the Arne Nixon Center for Children’s Literature at Fresno State.
Former students include: Lane Smith, Robin Preiss Glaser, Peggy Rathmann, Bruce Degen, Barney Saltsburg and Antoinette Portis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She feels blessed to have a passion that seems to stick with her no matter how the larger world goes out of control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Connect with Barbara Bottner:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Website<\/a> | Instagram<\/a> | Goodreads<\/a> | BookBub<\/a> | Amazon<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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