Rye Author Annabel Monaghan's Newest Novel
Monday, June 11, 2012
The Auxiliary Board of the Rye Free Reading Room will be hosing a book talk and signing for Rye author, Annabel Monaghan on June 14 from 7:00 to 8:30pm. Monaghan will discuss her new young adult novel, A Girl Named Digit. Books will be available for sale and signing, and refreshments will be served.
A Girl Named Digit is Annabel Monaghan’s first novel for teens. She is also co-author of Click! The Girls Guide to Knowing What You Want and Making it Happen, a non-fiction guide to positive thinking for teens (Simon and Schuster 2007). She lives in Rye, NY and writes a humorous column, Along for the Rye'd, for the Rye Record.
A Girl Named Digit is a romance-thriller, tied together with some humor and a little math. But it's really about coming to terms with who you are, accepting your gifts and deficiencies, and finding your place in the world. Annabel talks to students about why it took her so long to admit that she wanted to be a writer and why she kept convincing herself she'd really be better off as an investment banker (spoiler: she wasn't!). Annabel talks about writing as a career, writing fiction vs. non-fiction, creating strong characters and then doing terrible things to them, why Cinderella was not a good character, and about why it sometimes takes so long to get interested in a book.
Synopsis
Farrah Higgins started high school with one thing on her mind: ditching the math geek image that earned her the name Digit in middle school. By her senior year she’d figured out how to fake normal and fit in with the It Girls of Samohi. And it was all good, if exhausting, until she noticed some faint numbers in the corner of her TV screen and cracked the communications system of a murderous eco-terror organization. Kidnapped by the FBI for her own protection, half in love with her captor and running for her life… can she end world terror and get life back to normal before the prom?
A Girl Named Digit by Annabel Monaghan, published June 5, 2012 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $16.99, hardcover. 8th grade and up.
A Girl Named Digit is Annabel Monaghan’s first novel for teens. She is also co-author of Click! The Girls Guide to Knowing What You Want and Making it Happen, a non-fiction guide to positive thinking for teens (Simon and Schuster 2007). She lives in Rye, NY and writes a humorous column, Along for the Rye'd, for the Rye Record.
A Girl Named Digit is a romance-thriller, tied together with some humor and a little math. But it's really about coming to terms with who you are, accepting your gifts and deficiencies, and finding your place in the world. Annabel talks to students about why it took her so long to admit that she wanted to be a writer and why she kept convincing herself she'd really be better off as an investment banker (spoiler: she wasn't!). Annabel talks about writing as a career, writing fiction vs. non-fiction, creating strong characters and then doing terrible things to them, why Cinderella was not a good character, and about why it sometimes takes so long to get interested in a book.
Synopsis
Farrah Higgins started high school with one thing on her mind: ditching the math geek image that earned her the name Digit in middle school. By her senior year she’d figured out how to fake normal and fit in with the It Girls of Samohi. And it was all good, if exhausting, until she noticed some faint numbers in the corner of her TV screen and cracked the communications system of a murderous eco-terror organization. Kidnapped by the FBI for her own protection, half in love with her captor and running for her life… can she end world terror and get life back to normal before the prom?
A Girl Named Digit by Annabel Monaghan, published June 5, 2012 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $16.99, hardcover. 8th grade and up.
