Julie’s follow-up to My Brother’s Keeper is In the Tunnel which hits shelves May 30! In the Tunnel has already received starred reviews from Kirkus and Booklist and is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. My Brother’s Keeper was the recipient of 4 starred reviews, also a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, a… Read more »
Author Interviews
7 Questions with Brittany N. Williams
Brittany’s debut novel That Self Same Metal is a historical fantasy (a first for History Nerds!) and it hits the shelves April 25! Visit Brittany on her on her website, Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram. 1. If you could travel back in time, (assuming there’d be no risk to yourself or changing the course of… Read more »
7 Questions with Anna Rose Johnson
Anna Rose Johnson’s debut novel The Star That Always Stays is an NPR Best Book of 2022, 2023 Michigan Notable Book Award, Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, Parnassus Books Spark Book Club Selection, and a Cybils Award Middle Grade Fiction Nominee. You can visit her on her website, Twitter, and Instagram. 1. If you… Read more »
7 Questions with Annemarie O’Brien
Annemarie O’Brien is the author of Lara’s Gift. She has an MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She teaches creative writing courses at UC Berkeley, Stanford, and Pixar and is the founder of the blog, Best Dog Books. You can visit her on her website, Twitter, and… Read more »
7 Questions with Alan Gratz
Alan Gratz is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of seventeen novels for young readers, including Two Degrees, Ground Zero, Refugee, Allies, Prisoner B-3087, Projekt 1065, and Ban This Book. You can visit him on his website, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. 1. If you could travel back in time, (assuming there’d be no risk… Read more »
7 Questions with Giano Cromley
1. If you could travel back in time, (assuming there’d be no risk to yourself or changing the course of history) where and when and why would you go? If I could choose any time to visit (risk-free), it would probably be the Jurassic period — sometime when dinosaurs roamed the earth. This is a… Read more »
7 Questions with Vanessa Torres
1. If you could travel back in time, (assuming there’d be no risk to yourself or changing the course of history) where and when and why would you go? I love this question! And yet, it’s so hard to choose. Off the top of my head, I’m going to say the 1950s. I love the… Read more »
7 Questions with Betty Yee
1. If you could travel back in time, (assuming there’d be no risk to yourself or changing the course of history) where and when and why would you go? I would love to travel back to the late 19th century, early 1900’s. There was such tremendous energy all over the world. Times were changing, the… Read more »
7 Questions with Susan Azim Boyer
Susan is the author of Jasmine Zumideh Needs a Win out November 2022. 1. If you could travel back in time, (assuming there’d be no risk to yourself or changing the course of history) where and when and why would you go? If I could travel back in time, I’d visit Tehran, Iran in the… Read more »
7 Questions with Alda P. Dobbs
Visit Alda’s website, Instagram 1. If you could travel back in time, (assuming there’d be no risk to yourself or changing the course of history) where and when and why would you go? I would love to go to Mexico City or New York City during the late 1930’s/early 1940’s because of the great big… Read more »



