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Jaime Adoff

*Writer*Poet*Teacher*

Great News!!

 

 VIOLET AND THE FROST KING by Virginia Hamilton (my late mother) and Jaime Adoff (me) will be published in (2025) by Christy Ottaviano Books/Little, Brown/ So excited that CSK John Steptoe New Talent Award winner April Harrison will be illustrating this book.

 

More Great News! I am now being represented by the phenomenal Sera Rivers @writeloudly at Speilburg Literary Agency

 

Even MORE Great News! I have a second picture book being published in 2024! ROCK n ROLL DAD will be published by Christy Ottaviano Books as well. The amazing Caldecott Honoree Greg Christie will be Illustrating this book!

 

Rock n Roll Dad coming in 2024!
Violet and the Frost King coming in 2024!
"The Death of Jayson Porter" WINNER OF THE 2010 TEEN BUCKEYE BOOK AWARD!!
Fun AND informative TV interview from the OHIO channel! Check it out here!!
Jaime adoff and the Creative Process Interview/Voya 12/09 click here to download! (247 KB)
Download "The Song Shoots Out Of My Mouth" @ audible.com!!
"The Death of Jayson Porter" selected for the Choose to Read Ohio program! 09-10 Click here for more info!
CLICK FOR BOOK TRAILER! "Adoff captures the inner-city voice of drug-strangled poverty from Jayson’s point of view, in stark prose that crumbles into haunting blank verse, effectively using both white and black space to convey Jayson’s anguished mentality as he crawls ever closer to the edge. This forceful story will appeal to the many readers, some in despair, who will find Jayson a character they can cling to. It's a hard book to read, and even harder to put down."-*BOOKLIST STARRED REVIEW *-"Adoff delivers fully and with a surprising-but credible-upbeat denouement . . . Boys will find this book to be true and gripping, but it also needs to be read by others, including youth librarians looking for insight as well as excellent writing. It is a natural for discussion groups, but its powerful authenticity needs no intermediary to speak directly to the Jaysons of our time and their friends."-*VOYA- 5Q!*
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*WINNER OF THE 2006 CORETTA SCOTT KING/JOHN STEPTOE NEW TALENT AUTHOR AWARD*!!!
*An 06' YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers*
*VOYA Top Shelf Fiction List for 2005*
*06' NY Public Library Book for the teenage*
"This soul-wrenching and realistic story should be in every high school and middle school library."--LIBRARY MEDIA CONNECTION *STARRED REVIEW*
"Adoff shines as he tells an exceptional story about a young teen who must cope with grief, love, predudice and betrayal. . . Adoff's free-verse style is a natural fit for teens, and many readers will see themselves in Keith . . . The book is a tremendous addition to any collection"--VOYA-OCT/05
"I am 35 years old and have just finished reading Jimi and me. It is without a doubt one of the finest young adult books I have read since my own childhood. A coming of age story akin to "To Kill A Mockingbird". Fantastic work!!"-- Joseph Schwartz, St. Louis Public Library
CLICK TO BUY, & write a review! Then come on back!! "Selected as a NY Public Library 2005 Book for the Teen Age." NOW IN PAPERBACK!!!

"... an outstanding first novel" KIRKUS REVIEWS

"... A powerful, complex, skillfully written novel that even the most reluctant reader will find accessible." BOOKLIST

"With painfully immediate accounts of daily humiliations and power plays, Adoff sets a time bomb ticking . . . Readers wil be swept into this high-stakes drama of the high school underbelly."
HORN BOOK MAGAZINE

"...Adoff pulls off a young adult page-turner with literary ease." SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL

SMALL FRY- An uplifting poetry collection that reminds us all of what it's like to be small!! "...Cathartic and encouraging fun."KIRKUS REVIEW
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"The Song Shoots Out of My Mouth" is a Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award Honor Book for '03,
an International Reading Association(IRA) Notable Book for '03, a NY Public Library book for the teenage '03, a VOYA Poetry Pick '02, a CCB Best Book for 02',
a BWI Book Wholesalers Staff pick, a CCBC Book of the week and a teenreads.com cool new book.

"Each word running fast across lips
A direct line to my hips, twist and shake.
My voice another arm, another leg.
My throat the Cape Canaveral of my soul.

Song shuttle

blasting off

into deep blue

soprano sky.......

Why do
"I still LOVE YOU"
written on my palm,
fading now...
as cold front meets warm.
Pushing north from diaphragm to windpipe,
their first date my first pitch of life.
As the song:
SHOOTS
Out of my mouth

OUt of my doubt

OUT of my self

To you......

Available online & in bookstores everywhere!

Copyright (c) 2002,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008-2012, 2013-2016-2022 Jaime Adoff

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