![]() Myers Achievement Award, for "extraordinary contributions to literacy." Balliett’s books appear in 35 languages. ![]() She has appeared twice on NBC's Today Show.īook Worm Angels, a Chicago-based organization that provides a steady flow of thousands of books to classrooms in public schools across the city, gave Balliett the 2012 Kermit W. Or is it sparkle? In Balliett’s work, surprise at many levels is the name of the game.īalliett has won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Juvenile Novel, Chicago Tribune Prize for Young Adult Fiction, Chicago Public Library Foundation’s 21st Century Award, Book Sense Book of the Year Award, Great Lakes Book Award, Friends of American Writers Award, Agatha Award for Best YA Novel, Chicago Tribune’s Chicagoan of the Year for Literature, 2010, and a place in the official White House library as The Danger Box was handed to President Obama in January 2011 as a gift from the American Booksellers Association. Hold Fast breaks new ground in ways that will startle. Each combines real settings with an unlikely array of real-world ingredients. Download Blue Balliett's full-color biography (PDF)īlue Balliett's first four mysteries- Chasing Vermeer, The Wright 3, The Calder Game, and The Danger Box-have been The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, USA Today and IndieBound bestsellers. ![]()
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