Events

Kimberly Newton Fusco is available to speak at your school, library or conference.

Please contact Lisa McClatchy, Random House Children’s Books, to arrange a visit:
liske@aol.com or call (212) 782-9369.

For a helpful “Author Appearance Kit,” please visit:
www.randomhouse.com/teachers/authors/appear.html

You might also enjoy this article in Publishers Weekly.

2012

January 9 –Visiting Author – Scituate High School, Scituate, RI.

January. 13– Visiting Author – Heroes and Heroines Festival for 3rd Graders - Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT.

February 16 - Visiting Author – Beacon Charter High School for the Arts, Woonsocket, RI.

March 30 –Visiting Author – Creative Writing Workshop - Touchstone Community School, Grafton, MA. www.touchstoneschool.com

2011

April 16 – Guest Speaker – ASTAL Spring Author’s Luncheon, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI. Contact: jebrown.612@cox.net

April 30 – Guest Speaker – Women’s Words Conference, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. The conference will benefit Daybreak, a YWCA program that fights domestic violence. Contact: jdempsey@wpi.edu

June 6 - Guest Speaker - RI Center for the Book Annual Meeting, State Office Building, One Capitol Hill, Providence, RI. Contact: Louise Moulton, Director, LMoulton@provlib.org

July 26 – Guest Speaker – “Lunch & Learn” program for reporter interns, Worcester Telegram & Gazette, Worcester, MA.

September 22 –Visiting Author – Scituate High School, Scituate, RI.

September 30 –Visiting Author – Private Book Club, Foster, RI.

October 13 –Guest Speaker – Rhode Island Educational Media Association, Warwick, RI. Contact: janeperry@newportpublicschools.org

November 2 –Visiting Author – Captain Isaac Paine School, Foster, RI.

November 21 –Visiting Author – Fiction Writing Workshops – Touchstone Community School, Grafton, MA. www.touchstoneschool.com

2010

February 4 – Visiting Author – The Village at Waterman Lake, Greenville, RI.

February 8 – Visiting Author – Johnston High School, Johnston, RI.

March 4 - Visiting Author – Cumberland High School, Cumberland, RI.

September 20 – The Wonder of Charlie Anne Book Launch – Tyler Free Library, Foster, RI.

September 29 – Guest Speaker – Celebration of New Youth Literature, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI.

November 9 – Visiting Author - Touchstone Community School, Grafton, MA. www.touchstoneschool.com

November 15 – Guest Speaker – Teaching Adolescent Literature, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI. 

November 30 - Visiting Author – Captain Isaac Paine School, Foster, RI

2009

March 19 – Visiting Author – Regional Career Fair, Ponaganset High School, Glocester, RI.

March 21 – Guest Speaker – 6th Annual ASTAL Spring Luncheon Honoring Local Authors, Rhode Island College. (click for details)

November 4 – Visiting Author – Captain Isaac Paine School, Foster, RI.

December 14 – Visiting Author – Captain Isaac Paine School, Foster, RI.

2008

January 16 – Visiting Author – Putnam High School, Putnam, CT.

February 13 – Visiting Author – Burrillville High School, Burrillville, RI.

March 15 – Guest Speaker – 41st Annual Diocesan Religious Education Day – Bryant College.

May 6 – Visiting Author – Methuen High School, Methuen, MA.

 May 21 – Visiting Author – Brighton High School, Brighton, MA.

June 19 – Guest Speaker – Writing for Young People, Astal Summer Institute, Rhode Island College.

June 28 – Guest Speaker – National Stuttering Association Annual Conference, Parsippany, NJ.

October 1 – Visiting Author –  Captain Isaac Paine School, Foster, RI.

November 5 – Visiting Author – Captain Isaac Paine School, Foster, RI.

December 4 – Visiting Author – Captain Isaac Paine School, Foster, RI

Earlier Appearances

The Meadowbrook Waldorf School Faire, Richmond, RI

One Book - One Community - One Summer - Visiting Author - Laurens District 55 High School, Laurens, SC

Summer Shoreline SCBWI Conference, Madison, CT

American Library Association 2006 annual conference, New Orleans. Tending to Grace is awarded the Schneider Family Book Award for a middle grade novel that "artistically portrays the disability experience."

Nipmuc Regional High School, Upton, MA.

2006 Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators (SCBWI) annual New England conference.

Putnam High School, Putnam, CT.

New Britain Public Library, New Britain, CT.

Seekonk High School, Seekonk, MA.

Massachusetts School Library and Media Association’s annual (2005) conference, Sturbridge, MA.

Attleboro Children’s Literature Festival, Attleboro, MA. 

St. Andrew’s School, Barrington, RI.

Pomfret Community School, Pomfret, CT.

SCBWI New England Winter Conference - Featured Speaker - W. Alton Jones Whispering Pines Conference Center, West Greenwich, Rhode Island.

Annual Meeting - Foster Public Library and Tyler Free Library.

Boston College - The Foundation for Children's Books. www.thefcb.org

West Warwick High School

Johnston High School, Johnston, Rhode Island

Brooklyn Middle School, Brooklyn, Connecticut

Teen Writer's Group - Foster Public Library, Foster, Rhode Island

Guest Speaker, Women’s Initiative, Tatnuck Booksellers (Worcester, MA)

Burrillville High School, Burrillville, Rhode Island

Moses Brown Book Fair - School Workshop and Book Signing. Moses Brown School, 250 Lloyd Ave, Providence, Rhode Island.

Island Authors Book Festival - Newport Public Library 300 Spring Street, Newport, Rhode Island

Radio interview guest - Reading With Robin - WHJJ AM Providence

Ponagansett High School - Providence Journal Article

Rhode Island Library Association Festival of Rhode Island Authors. 1-4 p.m. , Narragansett Towers, Narragansett, Rhode Island.

Guest Speaker, "Luncheon Celebrating Rhode Island Authors," Rhode Island College .

TENDING TO GRACE is launched with a reading and book signing at Tyler Free Library Foster, Rhode Island.

Guest Speaker, “Under the Spell of Books Conference on Literature for Young People," Rhode Island College”

Tending to Grace

Awarded the American Library Association’s Schneider Family Book Award

“Like Katherine Paterson’s classic The Great Gilly Hopkins…this quiet, beautiful first novel makes the search for home a searing drama.”

Booklist, Starred Review

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