Meeting Lizzy Chosen as Moonbeam Children's Book Awards Semi-Finalist!

SarahBeth Carter's new YA book release, Meeting Lizzy, is a Semi-Finalist in the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards. Award recipients will not be final until Friday, October 24th of 2008 with one gold and one silver award for each category. The remaining semi-finalists will be reipients of the bronze!

The official announcement Moonbeam Children's Book Awards winners will occur in January 2009 at the same time as the Newbery and Caldecott Medal announcement. The announcements will be made at the ALA (American Library Association) Mid-Winter Gathering in Denver, Colorado with the award winning books on display throughout the conference from January 23-26, 2009.

Meeting Lizzy was published by LJW Publishing on September 19, 2008. The author's name is SarahBeth Carter and the book is distributed through Atlas Books/BookMasters. The ISBN for Meeting Lizzy is 978-0-9761986-6-6. The book is paperback with perfect binding and 232 pages and retails for $9.95. The book falls into the Fiction/Young Adult, Contemporary categories.

This recent YA release offers teens the chance to approach a dangerous and difficult situation from a safe position; an opportunity typical to many YA novels. 1 in 5 female high school students report being physically and/or sexually abused by a dating partner according to The Journal of AMA. Yet according to surveys conducted by the Family Violence Prevention Fund and Advocates for Youth, 81% of parents believe that teen dating violence isn’t an issue. The upcoming release, Meeting Lizzy, deals with teen dating violence in a way that teens can digest; while offering them characters and a story that will keep them reading.

Annotation: Meeting Lizzy

Lizzy slams into Cy’s life with the menacing shadow of “Beef Man” right behind her and Cy’s priorities fall apart to make room for a secret so big and so wrong that he can’t think of anything else.

The Author: SarahBeth Carter

SarahBeth graduated from ASU with an English Literature degree (preceded by a slew of majors that she thoroughly enjoyed experimenting with). When asked why she wrote a book based upon teen dating violence she said, “It wasn’t really premeditated. The characters seemed to pop up and then the story followed naturally. But it’s something that teens are affected by more than most of us realize. YA Lit gives them the chance to become aware of a dangerous issue prior to dealing with it on a personal level.”

For More Information:

For more information on the book, the author, or the publishing company contact Sarah Carter at sarah@larryjohnwright.com or visit LJW online at www.larryjohnwrightpublishing.com.