Back in June, my middle grade girls book club, now formally called The Book Owls, begged me to read a series that they were in love with. They wrote me email proclaiming their love and worked hard to educate those who didn’t know what the series so they could win them over to the dark side. Or rather the tiger side as it turns out. The series they were in love with was the Tiger Saga by Colleen Houck.

They read the first two books in the series, Tiger’s Curse and Tiger’s Quest, and were ravenous for more, but the third book hadn’t come out yet. As some of you may know, one of the perks of being a bookseller is that we often get review copies of books that haven’t come out yet. I happened to receive a review copy of the third book in this series, entitled Tiger’s Voyage, the day before we met for book club. It was too good to be true, especially for the girls. They started passing the review copy around and hatching a plan: They were going to get Colleen Houck to come here.

I was all for Colleen coming here, but I also knew that she lived in Salem, Oregon, which is quite a long way for here. We comprised all of our praise for the series anyway and sent them off to the publisher, Sterling, knowing that it was a shot in the dark, but trying none the less. When I got the call from the publisher to set up the signing, I could hardly believe it. I squealed, which, let me tell you, is nothing compared to what the girls did when I told them. Ah! It really worked!

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So there you have it. People, no matter their age, really can make things happen. I am so glad I get to share not only this story, but also the author event with you: Colleen Houck will be here this Friday, November 11th at 4:00. I hope you will come out and see what all the hubbub is about, and maybe pick up a couple of the books for the middle to highschool girl in your life.

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