Melissa
Melissa Schorr
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37 years old
Boston, MASSACHUSETTS
United States
Last Login: 10/8/2009
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| Movies | When Harry Met Sally, Stand By Me, the Sound of Music, Grease, Fools Rush In, Parent Trap, Miracle on 34th Street, It's a Wonderful Life. | | Television | DeGrassi, O.C., Gilmore Girls, My Super Sweet Sixteen, Everwood, West Wing, Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, 24, Law & Order, Apprentice, South Park, Buy Me, House Hunters. | | Books | YA: Sloppy Firsts, The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things, You Are So Not Invited to my Bat Mitzvah, Speak, The Boyfriend List, Nothing But the Truth (and a few white lies), TTYL, Pop Princess, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Angus, Thongs & Full-Frontal Snogging, Looking for Alaska, A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life. |
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Teen Lit, YA/Teen Books Discussion Group, Myspace Jews, Boston, Shire Village, Jews and Friends, readergirlz
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Networking | | Hometown: | New York City | | Zodiac Sign: | Gemini | | Smoke / Drink: | No / Yes | | Children: | Proud parent | | Education: | College graduate | | Occupation: | author |
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About me:
I'm a native New Yorker, from Riverdale in the Bronx, a freelance journalist and first-time novelist.
Check out my debut young adult novel, GOY CRAZY,
just out in paperback from Hyperion.
A New York Public Library 2007 "Books for the Teen Age" selection.
Visit my website:melissaschorr.com
A HILARIOUS NOVEL ABOUT FALLING FOR THE WRONG GOY
Rachel Lowenstein can't help it. She's got a massive crush on a goy: Luke Christiansen, who's the gorgeous star of the basketball team at St. Joseph's Prep. She just knows her parents would never approve...Should she follow her heart and turn her back on her faith? Or should she heed her family's advice and try to find a nice Jewish boy?
REVIEWS
"GOY CRAZY is fabulous -- a giddy, juicy read!"
--Lauren Myracle, author of TTYL and TTFN.
"(The) narrative is droll and sharp with scenes that are comical, troubling and poignantly sincere. Well-written
chick-lit with a Jewish slant." -- Kirkus Reviews.
"Schorr’s debut novel successfully combines Jewish values with snappy narration. Peer pressures are realistically portrayed as Rachel navigates the politics of popularity. Her fresh and witty voice is injected with such humor that readers will be drawn into the tale and will agonize along with her." -- School Library Journal
"Dialogue is wry and funny, and Rachel, smart and sensitive, is at that familiar place where the opinions of peers, especially boys, are tough to ignore. Even readers who aren’t Jewish will recognize Rachel’s struggle to find the right path––and the right boy––for herself." Booklist.
Check out the review in the Dallas Morning News: (which also ran in papers in Detroit, Missouri, & Indiana)
Dallas Morning News
Check out the Q&A the Atlanta Journal-Constition ran with me on Sunday:
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Who I'd like to meet:
Other YA authors, readers, book industry folk.
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