News & Awards
Find out what’s going on with Tim or when that new book is going to be released. Here you can follow Tim as he travels to schools around the country. We’ll keep you posted on what’s happening right here. You can also follow Tim on Facebook and Twitter for more personal updates.
IRA Middle Grade Choices Award 2010 Nominee
Tim’s novel, Football Hero, was nominated for this award in 2010. The International Reading Association Children’s and Middle Grades’ Book Awards is intended for newly published authors who show unusual promise in the children’s and middle grades’ book field. Awards are given for fiction and nonfiction in each of three categories: primary, intermediate, and middle […]
Indiana Young Hoosier Book Award Nominee
Tim’s novel, Football Hero, was nominated for this award. The purpose of the Young Hoosier Book Award Program is to stimulate recreational reading among elementary and middle school/junior high school children and to encourage cooperation between administrators, school media specialists, teachers, public libraries, and the community in providing reading experiences for Indiana school children. Last […]
Florida Sunshine State Young Readers Award Nominee
Tim’s novel, Football Hero, was nominated for this award. The Sunshine State Young Readers Award (SSYRA) is a program co-sponsored by the Office of Library Media and the Florida Association for Media in Education (FAME). Started in 1984, this reading motivation program for students in grades 3-8 is designed to entice students to read high […]
Wyoming Soaring Eagle Award Winner
Tim’s novel, Football Genius, won this award. Sponsored by the Wyoming Library Association and the Wyoming State Reading Council, the Soaring Eagle Book Award provides the opportunity for Wyoming youth in grades seven through twelve to select a favorite book (from a selected list of top nominations by students from the previous year) and honor […]
Iowa Teen Award Nominee
Tim’s novel, Football Genius, was nominated for this award. The Iowa Center for the Book (ICB) is a program of Iowa Library Services/State Library and an affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. The mission of the ICB is to stimulate public interest in books, reading, literacy and libraries. The […]