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Welcome to the Monroe Detective Agency...

When 10-year-old Max Monroe moves into his Grandpa Harry’s country house, he discovers a zany ghost living in the back yard. The ghost turns out to be his Uncle Larry, a bumbling detective who never solved one measly case in his entire career! Things start to look up when Max joins Larry to solve mysteries in this new and exciting chapter book series. Published by Kids Can Press.

Diamond Willow Award for The Midnight Curse

L.M. Falcone wins the 2011-2012 Diamond Willow Award for her middle-grade novel, The Midnight Curse. Gala was held in Saskatchewan on April 27, 2012.

The Willow Awards - the Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice - promote reading by granting a Willow Award to the Canadian books voted by students to be the best of those nominated in three categories: Shining Willow (K-3), Diamond Willow (4-6) and Snow Willow (7-9). For more information visit the Willow Awards website

L.M. Falcone will be visiting schools, libraries, bookstores, and community centres on Vancouver Island, BC, as part of TD Canadian Children's Book Week. Book week runs from April 30 - May 7, 2011.

TD Book Week is a nation wide event celebrating Canadian children's books and the importance of reading.

March 2011 - The Midnight Curse has been nominated for a Diamond Willow Award in the 2011 Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice Awards. The Willow Awards promote reading by granting a Willow Award to the Canadian books voted by students to be the best of those nominated in three age categories. Willow Awards Website

February 2011 - The Midnight Curse has been selected as one of Resource Links "Year's Best Books." Resource Links is Canada's national journal devoted to the review and evaluation of Canadian English and French resources for children and young adults. Resource Links Website

L.M. Falcone, along with a whole roster of authors, presented at the RO@R Literary Conference in Richmond Hill. RO@R is a yearly celebration, hosted by Redstone Public School, focusing on the importance of literacy in our lives.

L.M. Falcone’s juvenile fiction novel, The Devil, The Banshee and Me, has won the 2009 Red Cedar Award! This is the second time Falcone has been nominated for this award. The first was for her debut novel, The Mysterious Mummer in 2006.

The Devil, The Banshee and Me also received an Honour nod at the 2008 MYCRA Awards, Manitoba’s young readers’ choice award.

This is the first time in the history of the awards that the same author has won two years in a row.

L.M. Falcone’s Walking With The Dead has won the 2007 Silver Birch Fiction Award, Ontario’s readers’ choice award. The event was held at Toronto’s Harbourfront with thousands of students in attendance.

Walking With The Dead wins the Diamond Willow Award

L.M. Falcone’s Walking With The Dead won the 2007 Diamond Willow Award, Saskatchewan’s readers’ choice award. The gala was held in Swift Current.

Walking With The Dead also received an Honour nod at the 2007 MYCRA Awards, Manitoba’s young readers’ choice award.

Lucy Falcone book signing at OLA (Ontario Library Association) – Metro Toronto Convention Centre.