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          Finalists reading: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction and Poetry
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          One Page Wednesday: APRIL
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          Everybody Reads 2024: Gabrielle Zevin
          April 8, 2024
          2024 Oregon Book Awards Ceremony
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Varian Johnson

Varian Johnson is the author of several novels for children and young adults, including The Parker Inheritance, for which he won a Coretta Scott King Honor award; The Great Greene Heist, which was an ALA Notable Children’s Book, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2014, and a Texas Library Association Lone Star List selection; and To Catch a Cheat, another Jackson Greene adventure and a Kids’ Indie Next List pick. His latest book is Twins, illustrated by Shannon Wright. He lives with his family near Austin, Texas.


Purchase Twins from Green Bean Books, one of our Portland-based, independent bookstore partners HERE.

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