Robert Paul Weston reads 27 March!

[Tristanne Connolly]

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 Dust City has been described as "Chinatown via the Brothers Grimm", while Zorgamazoo "is about saving the universe from boredom. And it rhymes -- all 280 pages worth".


Join us Tuesday 27 March at 4:30pm in STJ 2009. The reading is free and all are welcome, so please spread the word!


For more information, please visit us online at the Reading Series website www.sju.ca/reading_series.html<http://www.sju.ca/reading_series.html,>, and blog, canlitkicksass.blogspot.com<http://canlitkicksass.blogspot.com/>.


About the author:


Robert Paul Weston's first novel, Zorgamazoo, 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 Shrek. His second novel, Dust City, 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.


Check out his website at www.robertpaulweston.com<http://www.robertpaulweston.com/>.
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