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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Han Solo avenged the destruction of an innocent planet by helping Luke Skywalker blow up the Death Star. Han walked away with a gold medal and the love of his life. But when Solo Hahn - named in honor of the beloved action hero - tries to avenge the death of his gray-and-white kitten, he gets eight months of community service. Eight months of working at the local raptor center helping owls - his now sworn enemies.For the first time in his life, Solo is labeled a troubled kid, an at-risk youth. He'd always gotten good grades, had good friends, and gotten along with his parents. He used to volunteer to read Reader's Digest to old people at the retirement home next door, and his favorite thing in the whole wide world was to surf.
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I'm the author of Better with Books: 500 Diverse Books to Ignite Empathy and Encourage Self-Acceptance in Tweens and Teens (Sasquatch, 2019) . Oregon Battle of the Books featured my award-winning middle-grade novel, Avenging the Owl, (Sky Pony, 2016) as one of their 2018-19 middle-grade selections. I also wrote the YA memoir, Gringa: A Contradictory Girlhood (Seal, 2009) and Wild Within: How Rescuing Owls Inspired a Family (Lyons 2014) . My writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Orion, High Country News, The Advocate, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Hemispheres, Horizon Air Magazine, The Rumpus, The Normal School, Education week, and numerous other national and international publications. I'm contributing editor at The Writer Magazine, and I teach for Southern New Hampshire University's M.F.A. in Creative Writing program. You can catch me leading workshops and at writing conferences, schools, and libraries across the Pacific Northwest.Find me on Instagram at @WildMelissaHart.com, on Twitter at @MelissaMHart, and at www.melissahart.com .
