Jackie and Jenny pose with the New York Public Library
mascot when Tell Them I Didn't Cry was selected as a Teen Book of the
Year in 2007.

Jackie is officially hooded as a doctorate in the humane letters from
Lakeland College in Wisconsin after delivering a commencement address
in May 2006. Dr. Spinner, who received the honorary degree for her
correspondence in Iraq, was the youngest recipient of the honor. Her
commencement speech was broadcast on C-Span. 

     Jackie's May 2005 commencement address, "The Only Thing You Should Be Advocating is the Truth," delivered to the College of Mass Communication & Media Arts at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Ill., will be included in The Arlington Reader, Second Edition. The Arlington Reader will be published in softcover by Bedford/St. Martin's, which anticipates a first printing of 10,000 copies, and a life of edition print run of 20,000 (which includes 8,000 free copies for instructors considering the textbook for adoption in classes). This edition will have a list price of $45.95.

UPCOMING BOOKS

    Jackie is working on two subsequent books. One is how trauma survivors and war veterans find healing power through art therapy, one of the only known and accepted therapies for combating chronic post-traumatic stress. The other book is a collaboration with a Marine officer. The two co-authors are soliciting photographs from Iraq and Afghanistan Purple Heart veterans. For more information, see below:

Postcards advertising the book are available at the Applewood Farm in Whiteford, which has a small heard of Alaskan reindeer on the Maryland-Pennsylvania border. For more information about the farm, visit www.applewoodfarm.org. To read the story I wrote about the farm in 2003, click here.