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<p class="MsoNormal">Amy,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The IL SCBWI chapter does have a list of authors who do events by region and SCBWI national now offers the Amber Brown Award which is a grant to help pay for school visit events.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The SCBWI-IL initiative is called Read Local and here’s the link for that:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://illinois.scbwi.org/read-local/">https://illinois.scbwi.org/read-local/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The National Amber Brown Grant:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.scbwi.org/awards/grants/amber-brown-grant/">https://www.scbwi.org/awards/grants/amber-brown-grant/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">AISLE <aisle-bounces@list.railslibraries.info> on behalf of Amy Stefanski via AISLE <aisle@list.railslibraries.info><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>"AISLE-Share: Association of Illinois School Library Educators discussion list" <aisle@list.railslibraries.info><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, January 6, 2020 at 10:05 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>"AISLE-Share: Association of Illinois School Library Educators discussion list" <aisle@list.railslibraries.info><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"astefanski@dunlapcusd.net" <astefanski@dunlapcusd.net><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[aisle] Looking for an Author<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello! <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Im looking for an Author to visit a school for a Family Reading Event (takes place at night). Is there a list somewhere that I can reference for those authors who are willing to do school visits? I would prefer a local/Illinois author,
and it's a Title 1 events so ideally a non-paid gig. It's for a middle school. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Any advice would be greatly appreciated<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Amy <br clear="all">
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