The Horn Book Magazine, July 1st, 2002
A few weeks before ALA Midwinter, Linda Sue Park sent me an e-mail: "I've gotten several e-mails from people congratulating me for the results of `mock Newberys' that are coming in from library systems all over--Shard has been named an Honor Book a few times. I know I should be pleased, and I am, I'm thrilled to pieces, but it's also making me completely neurotic. Sometimes I wish people would just stop talking about it."
I understood perfectly. I have always been superstitious about awards, and I firmly believe that talking about them is a jinx. I thought that A Single Shard might have an ...
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