|a Newspaper carriers |0 |v Juvenile fiction.
|a Irish Americans |0 |v Juvenile fiction. |a Finn Reardon, a thirteen-year-old Irish-American newspaper carrier who hopes to be a journalist someday, keeps a journal of his experiences living in New York City in 1899. She resides with her family in Moscow, Pennsylvania.|a The journal of Finn Reardon, a newsie / |c by Susan Campbell Bartoletti. Additionally, she leads workshops offered through the Highlights Foundation. She teaches writing classes at a number of MA and MFA programs, among them Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky, and Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. Since then, her works have received a number of awards, including the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Nonfiction, the SCBWI Golden Kite Award for Nonfiction, the Jane Addams Children's Book Award, and the Newberry Honor Medal in 2006. In 1997, she turned to writing full-time. She held a rigid routine, waking early in the morning in order to write before she left to teach. Three years later, in 1992, Campbell Bartoletti published her first picture book, Silver at Night. I wanted to practice what I preached, so I joined a writers group and got serious about my own writing." She sold her first short story in 1989. In connection with her students, Susan said that "I felt immense satisfaction in watching my students grow as writers. Seeing her student write and create original work, she was inspired to create her own. She graduated from the University of Scranton in 1982.Ĭampbell Bartoletti began her career as an eighth-grade English teacher before deciding to pursue writing in earnest. She was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, but eventually the family ended up in a small town in northeastern Pennsylvania.
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