Ms. Blume’s first book, Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters, has been nominated for the 2010 Grand Canyon Reader Award in Arizona.

It is a children’s choice award, and 45,000 students will vote to select the winner.  Ms. Blume is thrilled and honored to be among the contenders.

Cornelia has also been nominated for the Illinois Rebecca Caudill Young Readers’ Book Award and Missouri’s Mark Twain Reading Award.