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<span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">The Reading Series at St. Jerome's invites you to a special extra reading for the end of this Winter term. Come and indulge the Imagination with Robert Paul Weston, a Young Adult Fiction author whose novel </span><i style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">Dust
City</i><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"> has been described as "</span><i style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">Chinatown</i><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"> via the Brothers Grimm", while </span><i style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">Zorgamazoo</i><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"> "is
about saving the universe from boredom. And it rhymes -- all 280 pages worth". </span></p>
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<b><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Join us Tuesday 27 March at 4:30pm in STJ 2009. The reading is free and all are welcome, so please spread the word!</font></b></p>
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<font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">For more information, please visit us online at the Reading Series website </span><a href="http://www.sju.ca/reading_series.html," style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" target="_blank">www.sju.ca/reading_<wbr>series.html</a><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">,
and blog,</span><a href="http://canlitkicksass.blogspot.com/" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" target="_blank"> canlitkicksass.blogspot.<wbr>com</a><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">.</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">
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<div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="text-align: left;">About the author:</span></font></div>
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<font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Robert Paul Weston's first novel, <i>Zorgamazoo</i>, is the winner of the 2011 California Young Reader Medal, the 2010 Silver Birch Award, the 2009 Children’s Choice Award, and a 2009 E.B. White Honour. The film rights to the
book have been optioned by the producer of <i>Shrek</i>. His second novel, <i>Dust City</i>, was shortlisted for the 2011 Edgar Alan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America, the 2011 Sunburst Award for Canadian Fantasy, and the 2012 Manitoba Young Readers
Choice Award; it was also named a 2011 Honour Book by the Canadian Library Association. Currently, Weston lives in Toronto, where he lectures in creative writing at U of T.</font></p>
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<font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Check out his website at <a href="http://www.robertpaulweston.com/" title="http://www.robertpaulweston.com/
Ctrl+Click to follow link" target="_blank">www.robertpaulweston.com</a>.</font></p>
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