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| Greek revival ceiling at Cipriani Wall Street. |
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| Rebecca with Anne and Gary Schmidt. Gary was the wonderful leader of our judging panel. |
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| Bar, Wall Street Cipriani. |
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| Judith Ortiz Cofer with Rachel and Steve Sheinkin, Finalist in Young People's Literature for Bomb. |
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| Our panel's star, Susan Cooper... (Susan Cooper Cronym) |
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| With my daughter Rebecca. |
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| Table companions, poets Dana Levin and Patrick Rosal, judges for the poetry award. |
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| Author Sophia Quintero with Patrick Rostal. |
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| Cipriani Wall Street. |
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| Picked Sagittarius and Scorpio, as my birthday lands on the cusp between them. |
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| With Judith Ortiz Cofer. Devoured by judge-corsages. |
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| Fellow YPL panelist Daniel Ehrenhaft, author and now head of the Soho Teen imprint, along with his wife Jessica, a vice president at Scholastic. |
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| Rebecca Beatrice Miller in her new pixie cut, all curls gone! Judges Susan Orlean and Judith Shulevitz in the background. |
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| Table 55 assembling... |
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| Table 55. |
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| Judith Ortiz Cofer and Rebecca. |
