My middle school in New Milford, and two schools in the Southeast corner of the state -- Wheeler in North Stonington and Preston Plains Middle School, have tentatively agreed to bring Jordan Sonnenblick in for an author visit in September. We don't have the dates set yet, but it will be in the second half of the month.

 

Jordan would love to see if he could line up another author visit somewhere in between the northwest corner of the state and the southeast corner so he doesn't have to do so much traveling between visiting our two areas of the state.

 

His fee is $2300 for up to three presentations, plus expenses. He's driving up from Bethlehem, PA, so he'll be getting mileage and hotel rooms paid for, which will be split among the participating schools. He is willing to have two schools share an author visit day with him, but he doesn't want to have to travel more than a few minutes from one school to the next, or would prefer to spend the entire day at one location. For example, Wheeler and Preston Plains are sharing him for one day, splitting up the costs 2/3s and 1/3.

 

We know a lot of schools are still snowbound, or on February vacation. But if you're interested in getting in on his CT visit, please contact either myself or Maureen Rust at Wheeler by the end of this month. Her email is rustm@northstonington.k12.ct.us.