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Five questions for Monica Brown

Five questions for Monica Brown

Shoshana Flax and Elissa Gershowitz,  Jul 08, 2020

In the picture-book biography Sharuko: El arqueólogo Peruano Julio C. Tello / Peruvian Archaeologist Julio C. Tello, illustrated by Elisa Chavarri; translated into Spanish by Adriana Domínguez (Children’s/Lee & Low, 6–9 years), author Monica Brown tells the story of Julio C. Tello, “one of the most important archaeologists in all...
Five questions for Elizabeth Acevedo

Five questions for Elizabeth Acevedo

Elissa Gershowitz and Shoshana Flax,  Jun 10, 2020

In Clap When You Land (Quill Tree/HarperCollins, 14 years and up), two teens — Camino, who lives in the Dominican Republic, and Yahaira, who lives in New York City — discover they are half-sisters after their father perishes in a plane crash. Told in alternating verse, the story — winner...
Five questions for Rainbow Rowell

Five questions for Rainbow Rowell

Shoshana Flax and Elissa Gershowitz,  Oct 08, 2019

Photo: Augusten Burroughs. Rainbow Rowell's graphic-novel debut Pumpkinheads (Roaring Brook/First Second, 14 years and up) takes place in a theme park–like pumpkin patch (petting zoo, pumpkin slingshot, haunted graveyard, s'mores pit), where over the course of their last day at work, college-bound employees and BFFs Deja and Josiah search for...
Five questions for Celia C. Pérez

Five questions for Celia C. Pérez

Shoshana Flax and Elissa Gershowitz,  Aug 16, 2019

In Strange Birds: A Field Guide to Ruffling Feathers (Kokila/Penguin, 9–12 years), author Celia C. Pérez's follow-up to her 2018 Boston Globe–Horn Book honoree The First Rule of Punk (Viking, 9–12 years), four oddball friends band together to fight injustice and solve a historical mystery. It's like Stand by Me...
Five questions for Kate DiCamillo

Five questions for Kate DiCamillo

Elissa Gershowitz and Shoshana Flax,  Oct 09, 2018

Fans of Kate DiCamillo’s Raymie Nightingale will remember Louisiana Elefante as the perceptive friend (and orphaned daughter of trapeze artists) who reassures the others: “We’ll rescue each other.” In companion book Louisiana’s Way Home (both Candlewick, 8–11 years), it seems that Louisiana may need rescuing — from the “care” of...
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