Gae Polisner is an American author of
young adult
A young adult is generally a person in the years following adolescence. Definitions and opinions on what qualifies as a young adult vary, with works such as Erik Erikson's stages of human development significantly influencing the definition of ...
and crossover to adult novels. She is also a practicing family law attorney/mediator. She lives in
Long Island with her husband and two sons.
Books
* ''2013 The Pull of Gravity''
* 2015 ''The Summer of Letting Go''
* 2017 ''The Memory of Things''
* 2018 ''In Sight of Stars''
*2020 ''Jack Kerouac Is Dead to Me''
*2020, ''Seven Clues to Home'', with
Nora Raleigh Baskin
Nora Raleigh Baskin (born May 18, 1961) is an American author of books for children and young adults.
Biography
Nora Baskin was born in Brooklyn, New York City and is Jewish. When Baskin was three, her mother committed suicide, and many of her ...
Awards and honors
* ''In Sight of Stars'' 2018, received a Booklist Starred Review, and is the winner of a 2018 AudioFile Earphones Award; Michael Crouch narrating.
* ''The Memory of Things'' won the 2019 Golden Archer Award, Senior Division, Wisconsin's Children's Choice book award, and was a 2017 Wisconsin State Reading List final selection, a finalist for the New York Library Association's Three Apples Book Award, and a finalist for the Pennsylvania Keystone to Reading Book Award. It was the recipient of a 2016 Nerdy Book Club Award for Best Young Adult fiction, and was named one of the Most Anticipated YA's of Fall/Winter 2016 by Barnes & Noble Teen Blog, one of the Best New Books for Teens by the Children's Book Review, one of the 15 Must-Read YA Books of Fall by Brightly.com, and one of the Buzzworthy Books of Summer by YABooks Central.
* ''The Summer of Letting Go'' was the winner of the 2014 Nerdy Book Club Award Best Young Adult Fiction 2014, and received the
Teen Ink
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Editor’s Badge of Approval.
* ''The Pull of Gravity'' was the winner of the 2011 Nerdy Book Club Award for Best YA Fiction; a nominee for the 2011
Yalsa
The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), established in 1957, is a division of the American Library Association. YALSA is a national association of librarians, library workers and advocates whose mission is to expand the capacity of l ...
Readers Choice award
and the 2011 CYBIL’s Award; included in the 2012
Bank Street College
Bank Street College of Education is a private school and graduate school in New York City. It consists of a graduate-only teacher training college and an independent nursery-through-8th-grade school. In 2020 the graduate school had about 65 full ...
Best Children’s Fiction and 2011 Pennsylvania School Library Association’s List of Best YA Fiction lists; and a 2013-14 National Battle of the Books Pick.
* Her first manuscript, a 2008 piece of women's fiction titled ''The Jetty'', was a Top Semifinalist in the first ever 2008
Amazon Breakthrough Novel
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Award contest.
References
External links
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Writers from New York (state)
American young adult novelists
People from Long Island
American women lawyers
New York (state) lawyers
21st-century American women
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