The TeachingBooks Blog
I want my readers to see that they can be all kinds of people and that they aren’t limited to a version of themselves that someone else decided for them. They can be the popular girl, the smart girl, the mean girl, or the screw-up. “Asian American girl” doesn’t denote any one type of person.
A customer from Kershaw County, South Carolina recently asked us to create original multimedia resources with author Jordan Sonnenblick. In this original Meet-the-Author Book Reading Jordan shares the events and people in his life who inspired him to write Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip.
I thought a lot about the impact of violence as I wrote Burn Baby Burn (Candlewick 2016). My protagonist Nora Lopez would have seen a lot that year, both inside her own family and in situations all around her.
