About your presenters:

Victoria Hanley vh@victoriahanley.com

Victoria Hanley’s award-winning fantasy novels for teenagers are now published in 10 languages and 23 countries. Both The Seer and The Sword and The Healer’s Keep have been chosen by Colorado teens to be on the Blue Spruce list. The Oracle’s Light will be released in the spring of 2005. We are very excited to read her latest masterpiece. Victoria regularly visits schools to present writing workshops for kids.

The Seer and the Sword September, 2000 ISBN - 0823415325

The Seer and the Sword April, 2003 (pbk) ISBN – 0440229774

The Healer’s Keep September 2002 ISBN - 0823417603

The Oracle’s Light- to be released Spring 2005

Charli O’Dell charlio@psdschools.org

Charli O’Dell has been a media specialist at Boltz Jr. High in Fort Collins for ten years. Over the last three years, the fiction circulation at Boltz has tripled. Interestingly, all that voluntary reading on the part of Boltz students hasn’t hurt CSAP scores—In fact, 91% of Boltz 9th graders last year scored in the category of proficient or above for reading, and Boltz reading and writing scores were 1^st in the State for 9th graders in schools of similar size or larger.

“Confused About Fusion? Weed your Science Collection with a Pro.” School

Library Journal. October 1998.

“Thanks-A-Latte.” School Library Journal. December 1999.