Taking Chances, Writing Outside Walls: Diverse Authors at the 2017 Brooklyn Book Festival
A report on two events on Children’s Day at the 2017 Brooklyn Book Festival and thoughts on taking chances and writing outside one’s comfort zone.
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Teens Resist: Historical and International Perspectives
Twelve books for preteen and teen readers that portray young people as political activists in the U.S. and throughout the world in the 20th century.
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Contested Histories: International Perspectives, Part 2
The second part of my presentation on “Contested Histories” at the AWP conference, which focuses on the Cold War in Latin American and my own writing.
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Contested Histories: International Perspectives, Part 1
The first part of my presentation on “Contested Histories: International Perspectives” at the AWP 2017 conference.
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Winner, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature, 2023!
