Contact Information
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: http://www.joannereisberg.com
Book Category: Fiction
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Books
There’s a Ghost in My Mirror. Illustrated by Rubén Corral. E-book, MeeGenius, 2013.
Tuesday: a Lucky Day for Luis. Illustrated by Nancy Cote. Operation Outreach, USA, 2012.
Escape to the New World. E-book, MuseItUp Publishing, 2012.
Webster’s Coming Home Today. Operation Outreach-USA, 2007.
Zachary Zormer Shape Transformer. Illustrated by David Hohn. Charlesbridge, 2006.
What’s Behind the Mighty Fitz? North Star Press.
Save the Colors: A Civil War Battle Cry. White Mane Books, 2001.
Essay
135 Voices. University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
Foreign Books
Zachary Zormer. Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press: Chinese language, 2012.
Zachary Zormer. Gimm-Young Publishers Seoul Korean language, 2009.
Play
The Joy of Christmas. Lillenas Publishing Company, 2010.
Highlights
With degrees from the University of Minnesota and Macalester College, I have taught in Minneapolis and El Paso. I have published in a variety of genres from tongue twisters in Spider, a poem in The Wall Street Journal, short fiction in Children’s Playmate, nonfiction in Once Upon a Time and in Cobblestone’s history magazine, Appleseeds, and a mystery in a 2003 issue of Hopscotch.
Awards
Award from the Institute of Children’s Literature, 2015.
ANA award from the University of Minnesota
Certificate of Achievement, Writer’s Digest 1997.
Presentations
There are usually good reasons why we search out a particular author or reread a book. With the class I discuss these reasons and together we develop a strong believable character, analyze the point-of-view of that character, and talk about how action can move the plot along with exciting twists and turns. We explore historical fiction since it is through active history that young readers can live and breathe a different era. They can experience a march through the hills of Virginia and sense fear as they approach the Bull Run far from home. I enjoy sharing my writing experiences with drafts, galleys and the challenges of the publishing world.
To get an idea of what a school presentation might look like check out this video from Joanne’s website.
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