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Barbara is a school librarian who is emerging as a children's author. Her first book, A Surprise for Baby Ruth (ISBN: 1-60-610-436-5) was published in July, 2008.
Barbara was born in Magee, Mississippi and attended school at Magee and Mendenhall public schools. She graduated from Mendenhall High School in 1971, earned her BA from Mississippi College, Clinton, MS in 1975 and started her career.
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Background
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Barbara has been a storyteller and school librarian for many years. Books, authors and stories are a big part of her life. She believes that she has lived a thousand lives through the characters in books that she reads. Barbara has been a featured author at El Paso's Great Southwest Book Fair held annually in October.
To arrange for Barbara Rodgers to have a conversation with your book club or school group, contact her at barbara.txadk@yahoo.com. If you are within Region 19 area, at no cost to you, Barbara will visit your group and discuss her work and answer questions from group members. If you are out of Region 19 area, Barbara will visit your group but ask you to reimburse her travel expenses only.
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Birth Place
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Magee, MS USA
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Accomplishments
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Outstanding Young Women of America, 1981
Who's Who Among America's Teachers, 2002 and 2003
Molly Pitcher Award, 1994 presented by COL George Selden at Fort Hood, Texas.
III Corps & Fort Hood Helping Hand Volunteer Award, presented by LT GEN Paul Funk, 1994.
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Additional Information
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Organizations: El Paso Writers' League (EPWL);
Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrators; Texas Alpha Delta Kappa - Texas President of Council of Chapter Presidents;
El Paso Reading Council; Texas State Reading Association; International Reading Association;
Texas Disaster Relief volunteer, El Paso Baptist Association; First Baptist Church Sanctuary Choir and women's Bible study teacher.
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Contact Information
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Favorite Links
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BarbaraWrites
Barbara's blog site
EPWL
EPWL is an organization for local writers who want to hone their writing skills while creating friendships with other writers.
Texas Literacy Conference
Texas State Reading Association sponsors an annual literacy conference. Barbara presented "Fairy Tales for Teens".
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