MEADOW LARK, SOARING EAGLE and WHITE GRIZZLY, The Santa Fe Trail Trilogy
square image acting as a bullet point in the list MEADOW LARK: Winner of the Colorado Book Award and a WILLA Literary Award Finalist.
square image acting as a bullet point in the list SOARING EAGLE: Top Hand Award from the Colorado Authors League, Finalist in the Colorado Book Award YA category, and Nominated by the ALA/ALSA as a Recommended Book for the Reluctant Reader and also for the Colorado Blue Spruce Award.

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WHITE GRIZZLY: Winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award from the Publishing Marketing Association in the Juvenile/Young Adult Fiction category and winner of the Colorado Independent Publishers Association Award and the EVVY Book Award.

WHITE GRIZZLY: The play -- Ann N. Black's book of plays includes WHITE GRIZZLY. READERS THEATRE FOR MIDDLE GRADE SCHOOL BOYS--Investigating the Strange and Mysterious, by Ann N. Black, Teacher Ideas Press, an imprint of Libraries Press, 2008.
Praise for MEADOW LARK from Rudolfo A. Anaya and Rick Manzanares
Mary Peace Finley, award-winning author of books for young people Welcome to my website.  My name is Mary Peace Finley. Let me introduce myself as an author of books for young people.

I was born and Monfort Elementary, Greeley, CO raised on the plains of southeastern Colorado, exploring canyons, discovering pictographs, hounding for rocks. Although I have traveled abroad and lived in Mexico, England, Uruguay and Costa Rica, the return to my "roots" in Colorado has fanned my passion for writing Western historical fiction.

I am a graduate of the University of Denver, a former teacher of English-as-a Foreign Language, and a former scriptwriter for the PBS TV nature series, "Marty Stouffer's WILD AMERICA." I enjoy giving book talks at schools as well as teaching writing classes and workshops. (And snorkeling!)

I am an active member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. I also am a member of the Colorado Authors' League, Women Writing the West and Western Writers of America.

My short non-fiction piece, "Rosario" is included in the anthology, Woven on the Wind--Women Write About Friendship in the Sagebrush West,  published Spring, 2001 by Houghton Mifflin and contributor to Writing, Etc., published by Ghost Road Press.

My e-mail address is .


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