“Picoult writes with unassuming brilliance.”
— Stephen King
“It's hard to exaggerate how well Picoult writes.”
— Financial Times
“Nothing is ever all said and done in a Picoult novel. One can imagine the ripples of these characters' lives echoing on and on, even after the last page has been turned. Odds are, you'll wish you hadn't turned it. ”
— San Antonio Express-News
“Picoult is a rare writer who delivers book after book, a winning combination of the literary and the commercial.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“Picoult writes with a fine touch, a sharp eye for detail, and a firm grasp of the delicacy and complexity of human relationships.”
—The Boston Globe
“Picoult has become a master-almost a clairvoyant-at targeting hot issues and writing highly readable page-turners about them…It is impossible not to be held spellbound by the way she forces us to think, hard, about right and wrong.”
—The Washington Post
I recently had the opportunity to witness a leadership conference in Connecticut, where seventy-five high school students from the greater Hartford, CT area all came together to discuss Improving School Climates, using 19 Minutes as a springboard for discussion. The moderators, JoAnn Freiberg and Nancy Pugliese - both working with the State Dept. of Education - created a curriculum and format that they have kindly volunteered to let me post on this website so that other educators can benefit from it! Using a “fishbowl discussion” format, they used excerpts from the book and based questions off those excerpts for discussion.
Resources for educators: an anti-bullying curriculum and format:
At the day’s end, students split up by school and formulated action steps that they could take away from their discussion to use in their own school settings. It was an amazing event to witness - to see kids committed to being the change they want to see in the world. If you have any further questions, you can contact joann.freiberg@gmail.com.
Jodi Picoult and the Anxious Parent By Ginia Bellafante, New York Times Sunday Magazine: June 21, 2009
World Service interview » Fri, 19 June 2009. Carrie Gracie asks Jodi about her views on books and life. (16MB mp3 - Duration: 33 mins.)
THE DVD of MY SISTER’S KEEPER, starring Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Alec Baldwin, and Sofia Vassilieva, arrives November 17!
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Has your book club read Change of Heart yet? It’s new in paperback, and debuted on the New York Times list at #1. I promise it will shake you up, and make you think about some really tough issues that face our country. Watch the Got digital?Visit audible.com for digital audiobooks by Jodi Picoult. Jodi's 13 unabridged audiobooks from Audible (see complete listing) can be downloaded and played back on the Apple iPod, personal computers, and wireless mobile devices and burned on to CDs. Audible.com also offers The Jodi Picoult Collection, which contains four of Jodi Picoult's most riveting novels: My Sister's Keeper, Second Glance, Vanishing Acts, and The Tenth Circle.
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