By Rocco Staino, Chelsey Philpot
September 28, 2010
We tracked down some of your favorite authors at this year's National Book Festival in Washington, DC, to ask them what children or YA books they were reading. Here's what they had to say:
Margarita Engle, author of The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom (Macmillan, 2008): The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Little Brown, 2007) by Sherman Alexie, a semiautobiographical account of life on the Spokane Indian Reservation.
Linda Sue Park (left) and Margaret Peterson Haddix.
MargaretPeterson Haddix, author of Claim to Fame (S & S, 2009): The Sky Is Everywhere (Dial, 2010) by Jandy Nelson, about 17-year-old Lennie's roller-coaster emotions following a tragedy.
Phillip Hoose, 2009 winner of the National Book Award for Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice (FSG, 2009): The Story of Ferdinand (Viking, 1936) by Munro Leaf, a bestselling children's classic about a bull who preferred sitting under the cork tree and smelling flowers to fighting.
Pat Mora, author of Dona Flor: A Tall Tale About a Giant Woman with a Great Big Heart (Random, 2005): The Lion & the Mouse (Little Brown, 2009) by Jerry Pinkney, a wordless adaptation of one of Aesop's most beloved fables and this year's Caldecott Medal winner.
Linda Sue Park, 2002 Newbery Medal-winner for A Single Shard (Clarion, 2001): Forge (Atheneum, 2010) by Laurie Halse Anderson, the tale of what it takes for runaway slaves to forge their own paths in a world of obstacles and in the midst of the American Revolution.
Erica Perl, author of Dotty (Abrams, 2010): Mockingjay (Scholastic, 2010) by Suzanne Collins, in the final book
Erica Perl (left) and Rebecca Stead.
of the "Hunger Games" series, the Capitol is angry and wants Katniss Everdeen to pay for the unrest.
Anita Silvey, who wrote 100 Best Books for Children: A Parent's Guide to Making the Right Choices for Your Young Reader, (Houghton, 2004): Janis Joplin:Rise Up Singing (Amulet, 2010) by Ann Angel. The story of one of the most influential figures in rock-and-roll history told with depth and sensitivity.
Rebecca Stead, 2010 Newbery Medal-winner for When You Reach Me (Random, 2009): The Candymakers (Little Brown, 2010) by Wendy Mass, about four children who have been chosen to take part in a national competition to find the tastiest confection in the country.
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Inspired by a similar SLJ article this Summer, I tracked down some of my students favorite authors and posted their Sumer reads to my blog -La Lucha Libro Library. I figured the kids whould get a kick out of knowing that they were reading some of the same books.
If you're interested here is the link-
http://centeno.edublogs.org/2010/07/01/favorite-authors-summer-reads/
Posted by Analine Johnson on September 28, 2010 11:19:03PM
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