Children's Author Wins A Bronze Medal at the 13th Annual Independent Book Publisher Awards

Children's author Angela Lee was honored last week at the BookExpo America for her book, "The Forbidden Well."

Foothill Ranch, Calif. (PRWEB) June 4, 2009 -- Children's author Angela Lee was honored last week at the 13th Annual Independent Publisher Book Awards held in NYC at the BookExpo America (www.bookexpoamerica.com).

Lee's book, "The Forbidden Well" (www.theforbiddenwell.com), received a Bronze for the Multicultural Fiction - Children's division. The author's book is about an eight-year-old who discovers a mysterious terracotta warrior and is thrust back in time to the Qin Dynasty.

This year's awards (www.independentpublisher.com) attracted 4,090 entries from throughout the U.S. and Canada, plus most English-speaking countries worldwide. Medal-winning books came from 44 U.S. states plus the District of Columbia, eight Canadian provinces, and six countries overseas.

Launched in 1996 as the first unaffiliated awards program open exclusively to independent, university, and self-published titles, the IPPY Awards are presented by IndependentPublisher.com, the online "voice of independent publishing" operated by publishing services firm Jenkins Group of Traverse City, Michigan.

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