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Sarah Miller

Miss Spitfire is high drama about how language unlocks the world. ~Richard Peck

About Me


www.SarahMillerBooks.com
My book, MISS SPITFIRE: REACHING HELEN KELLER , is now available! To find out more about it (and me), please stop by my website , blog , or read chapter one here .
"This moving story - for all ages - is about how Anne an underprivileged young woman awoke to life and learning the most famous woman of her time. Miss Spitfire is high drama about how language unlocks the world."
~ Richard Peck, Newbery-winning author of A Year Down Yonder

"An illuminating look into the life of Annie Sullivan."
~ Sue Stauffacher, author of Donuthead

"To read Sarah Miller's Miss Spitfire with your daughter or your son is to discover in a fresh, new way the miracle that brought together two of history's most brilliant and stubborn women. What an amazing, revealing book. It's definitely not for kids only!"
~ Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean

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My friends would tell you I'm quirky, slightly obsessive, and rather irreverent. I majored in linguistics, minored in Russian, and was the undisputed fingerspelling champ in my ASL classes. I can also read Braille -- very, VERY slowly. A few of the things I like best: Anne Frank, opera, the Romanovs, cameras, daffodils, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ferrero Rocher chocolates, I Love Lucy, the Titanic, Bette Davis movies, and goofy socks.
I have the good fortune to work at a very fine independent children's book store, where I'm constantly up to my elbows in new and upcoming children's lit.
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A NOTICE TO POTENTIAL MySpace FRIENDS: **************************************************
MISS SPITFIRE is a book aimed at kids as young as 9 years old. If you've got anything on your profile that isn't suitable for preteen eyes, I'm sorry, but I just can't add you.
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My Interests


I'd like to meet:

Maya Angelou, Miep Gies, E.L. Konigsburg, and my editor and agent, for Pete's sake!

As well as readers, booksellers, and librarians, of course!

Music:



Movies:


Books:

Far too many to list! Ok, how about just the ones that occupy a place of honor on my nightstand? Here goes:

Plus ALL my Helen Keller and Donna Jo Napoli books. (It's a big nightstand) To see my ENTIRE library, visit me here: My LibraryThing collection!

Heroes:

Eleanor Roosevelt Donna Jo Napoli

My Blog

Come read my REAL blog!

I've just now (duh) realized that unlike Laurie Halse Anderson, I totally stink at updating my MySpace blog. So please, please please come visit me on Blogger, where I really do post on a re...
Posted by Sarah Miller on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:20:00 PST

In honor of June 27th

(It's her 127th.) ************* And, not coincidentally...ta-daa! My website is now (mostly) up: www.SarahMillerBooks.comStop on by and sign my guestbook -- I'd love to hear from you on opening day. ...
Posted by Sarah Miller on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:47:00 PST

Oh, look. Look, look, look.

A big box from Simon & Schuster arrived on my front porch today.Unfortunately, I was at work. My parents slyly arranged to meet me for dinner, where I found one TALL shiny gold bag waiting for me....
Posted by Sarah Miller on Thu, 31 May 2007 08:55:00 PST

Thumbs up from Kirkus!

From the June 1 issue of Kirkus: *************************** MISS SPITFIREReaching Helen KellerAuthor: Miller, SarahReview Date: JUNE 01, 2007Publisher:AtheneumPages: 240Price (hardback): $16.99Public...
Posted by Sarah Miller on Sun, 27 May 2007 05:48:00 PST

Read an excerpt from MISS SPITFIRE!

I've just (and I mean just) discovered that Simon & Schuster has posted an excerpt from MISS SPITFIRE: REACHING HELEN KELLER on their website:MISS SPITFIRE -- Chapter OneHave a look and tell ...
Posted by Sarah Miller on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 03:03:00 PST

10 things you probably don't know about Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller

10. The illness that cost Helen Keller her sight and hearing has never been identified. Doctors today believe it may have been scarlet fever or meningitis.   9. Although Annie is nearly always&nb...
Posted by Sarah Miller on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 02:46:00 PST

About MISS SPITFIRE

  This book of mine got started when I saw The Miracle Worker on stage at MeadowBrook Theatre in October of 1998. We came to the end, that famous scene with the water pump, and when the...
Posted by Sarah Miller on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:19:00 PST