Gigi Amateau (Author of Come August, Come Freedom)

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Gigi Amateau

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October 20, 1964

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Gigi Amateau was born in northeastern Mississippi and raised in Mechanicsville, Virginia, just outside of Richmond. Her first young adult novel, Claiming Georgia Tate (Candlewick Press, 2005), described as 鈥渁 moving first offering鈥� by School Library Journal, was selected as a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, Voice of Youth Advocates Review Editor鈥檚 Choice, and a Book Sense Summer Pick. It was also nominated for the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Children鈥檚 Book Award and the American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults list.

Among other upcoming titles, Chancey of the Maury River will be published by Candlewick Press in May 2008.

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Turning toward fall, I give thanks for the restorative time spent this summer with family, friends, and the earth!聽聽Always, too, I give thanks for birds. I am a secret poet and not a very good one at that. I especially like to write poemish things to remember some of the birds I see and鈥� Read more of this blog post »

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Average rating: 3.88 · 1,465 ratings · 282 reviews · 9 distinct works 鈥� Similar authors

	Come August, Come Freedom: The Bellows, the Gallows, and the Black General Gabriel 3.63 avg rating — 440 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Claiming Georgia Tate 3.81 avg rating — 381 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chancey of the Maury River 4.31 avg rating — 313 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Macadoo of the Maury River 4.33 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 2013 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Certain Strain of Peculiar 3.57 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Two for Joy by Gigi Amateau, Abigail Marble (Illustrator) 3.58 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dante: Horses of the Maury River Stables 4.10 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2015 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Come August, Come Freedom (Free Preview of Chapters 1-3): The Bellows, the Gallows, and the Black General Gabriel it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Come August, Come Freedom: The Bellows, the Gallows, and the Black General Gabriel by Amateau, Gigi (2014) Paperback 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Crying makes me know I'm still real and still alive.”
― Gigi Amateau, Claiming Georgia Tate

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“I close my eyes and try to find the sound of the clock in the living room. There it is, past all the voices, the plates and forks clicking, the feet walking from room to room. There is the clock, keeping up with everything as if nothing has changed at all.”
― Gigi Amateau, Claiming Georgia Tate

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“There is something easy about being alone and deciding what to do and how to do it.”
― Gigi Amateau, Claiming Georgia Tate

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