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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#17365D'>Author </span></i><b><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Eliot Schrefer</span></i></b><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> </span></i><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#17365D'>will be presenting at MAME’s Annual Conference in Bay City this year. </span></i><em><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The annual Author Breakfast event begins with a full breakfast, immediately followed by Eliot's presentation, “Expanding Our Empathy Through Children’s Literature.”<o:p></o:p></span></em></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><br></span></i><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Eliot's fifth novel, <em><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Endangered</span></em>, was a finalist for the National Book Award in Young People’s Literature. It was also one of NPR’s “Best of 2012,” an editor’s choice in The New York Times (which called it “dazzling" and "big-hearted"), a finalist for the Walden Award, winner of the Green Earth Book Award, and won the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>In addition to being our featured breakfast speaker, Eliot will present an hour-long session immediately following, titled <em><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>“Fact in Fiction: Weaving Research into Narrative”. <o:p></o:p></span></em></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><em><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></em></p><p class=MsoNormal><em><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Public librarians and educators are invited to attend this exciting event! More information, cost and registration here! <o:p></o:p></span></em></p><p class=MsoNormal><em><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'><a href="http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=5dyn98jab&oeidk=a07ebjnp6xg559afc46"><span style='font-style:normal'>http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=5dyn98jab&oeidk=a07ebjnp6xg559afc46</span></a> </span></em><em><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></em></p><p class=MsoNormal><em><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></em></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#17365D'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bangle Thin";color:#548DD4'>Karen Becknell MALS<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bangle Thin";color:#548DD4'><a href="mailto:bookwoman@mi.rr.com"><span style='color:#548DD4'>bookwoman@mi.rr.com</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bangle Thin";color:#548DD4'>Library of Congress TPS Trainer<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bangle Thin";color:#548DD4'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bangle Thin";color:#548DD4'>MAME Database Manager<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bangle Thin";color:#548DD4'><a href="mailto:mamedatab@gmail.com"><span style='color:blue'>mamedatab@gmail.com</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bangle Thin";color:#548DD4'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bangle Thin";color:#548DD4'>Editor: Michigan Authors & Illustrators Database<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bangle Thin";color:#548DD4'><a href="mailto:miaieditor@gmail.com"><span style='color:blue'>miaieditor@gmail.com</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bangle Thin";color:#548DD4'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bangle Thin";color:#548DD4'>“A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.” Henry Ward Beecher<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>