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  • Nerd Camp is a finalist for the Cybils Award!  What an honor, and what great company.  Thank you squared to Jennifer Donovan and all the first panel judges!
  • Breaking book news!  Elissa will have TWO NEW BOOKS coming in summer 2013 and summer 2014.  It's a long time to wait, but more details soon!
  • Standing for Socks will soon be part of Scholastic Book Club and Book Fairs!  Look for it starting in 2012.
  • Watch the Johns Hopkins University video profile of Elissa and CityLit Kids for the university homepage and alumni magazine.
  • Nerd Camp was featured as a best summer novel for kids in The Washington Post!
  • Elissa's one of those writers who keeps her latest project top secret until she's done writing it.  Read about why in her guest post on Cynthia Leitich Smith's Cynsations blog.
  • Check out Elissa's interview in Newsday with Kidsday reporters from her hometown, Merrick!
  • Elissa talks about Nerd Camp, math, and Baltimore with The Jewish Times.
  • One character in Nerd Camp gets his name from a 7-year-old competitive ping pong player!  Get the scoop in Elissa's spotlight interview with Biblio Reads.
  • Listen to Elissa talk about her name--and how to pronounce it--on TeachingBooks.net.
  • The June issue of Baltimore's Child features a story about CityLit Kids, a writers-in-classrooms program Elissa helped create.  Want to know more?  Check out the video of the fourth graders reading their work.
  • Look for an interview with Elissa in the June edition of SoBo Voice magazine.
  • Are you a proud nerd? Show it off with some Nerd Camp gear.
  • "Embrace Your Inner Geek": Elissa talks with BookPage about summer camp, nerdiness, and her latest projects.
  • Wired Magazine's GeekDad blog loves Nerd Camp!
  • CBS Baltimore named Elissa one of the thirteen best authors in Maryland!  What an honor!
  • Standing for Socks was named one of Bank Street's Best Books of the Year!
  • An interview with Elissa in Baltimore's Child magazine in June 2010--just in time for the Standing for Socks paperback!
  • Little Willow interviews Elissa about activism, identity, mismatched socks, and drawing koalas on Bildungsroman.
  • "Special Features: Standing for Socks" now up on the Cybils Awards Challenge blog.  Leave a comment with creative sock puns!
  • Are you Mark Hopper?  Do you know a Mark Hopper?  Just how many Mark Hoppers are there? Visit www.whoismarkhopper.com.
  • Elissa's Long Island signing was chosen as a best pick in the January 11th edition of Newsday!
  • Read about Elissa in her hometown newspaper, Merrick Life.
  • Elissa talked about both books on Eyewitness News!  Watch the morning segment or afternoon segment.
  • Scholastic's Instructor Magazine recommends The Trouble with Mark Hopper as a best summer pick for new middle schoolers!
  • Listen to Elissa speak with Tom Hall on WYPR's "Maryland Morning."
  • Elissa talks about the cover of Standing for Socks in her guest-post on the Baltimore Sun Read Street blog.