I love to visit schools and libraries. For rates and availability, please write to me at TracyTBarrett@yahoo.com. For a .pdf with many tips on hosting an author visit, including suggested sources for funding, please click
here. The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators has excellent
advice on how to prepare for a school or library visit.
For further information on me and my books, a sample contract, book-order forms, and more, please write to me at TracyTBarrett@yahoo.com. You can also download my press kit.
Now available for virtual visits!
I enjoy communicating with my readers and answer all emails sent to me at TracyTBarrett@yahoo.com. Please have minors write to me from a parent's or teacher's email account. You can also write to me care of my publisher, Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, 175 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10010. If you use surface mail and want a reply, please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope, and remember that it sometimes takes a few months for letters sent my publisher to reach me.
Most of my novels and some of my nonfiction works have been designated as
AR books.
I've created class activities (see downloads and links below) for my novels. This material is copyrighted, but teachers and media specialists may make enough copies for classroom use with students without permission. Please write to me at TracyTBarrett@yahoo.com for permission to use it in any other way.
I would appreciate feedback and suggestions for more activities. Please note that I did not write, commission, or have any input into the
curriculum guide or
trivia quiz for
Anna of Byzantium, the materials about
On Etruscan Time listed on that book's
review page, or for the material about
The 100-Year-Old Secret on the
page created by/for the Young Hoosier Award.
More activity suggestions are in
this review on
School Library Journal's "Curriculum Connections" (you have to be a subscriber to "Curriculum Connections" to access the site).
Have archaeologists discovered remains of the palace of Odysseus? Some people think so!
A very creative school-created
video for
The 100-Year-Old Secret.
Also see the booktalk guide for
Anna of Byzantium in Lucy Schall's
Booktalks and More: Motivating Teens to Read, pp. 196-198.
