Bestselling author April Henry shares the inspiration for her chilling new YA mystery, The Girl in the White Van. Plus, download the teacher’s guide for April Henry’s collection of books and discover more writing tips on April’s website!
Tag: Author Interview
Meet the Author: Margaret Owen
Author Margaret Owen spoke with Booklist on their podcast Shelf Care about the creation process and backstory of her YA fantasy series, The Merciful Crow and The Faithless Hawk. Click here to listen to Margaret’s interview!
Meet the Creator: Ryan Andrews
Graphic novelist Ryan Andrews spoke with TeachingBooks.Net about the creation process and backstory of his middle-grade graphic novel, This Was Our Pact. Click here to listen to Ryan’s interview!
Meet the Creator: Mahogany L. Browne
Poet and author Mahogany L. Browne spoke with TeachingBooks.Net about the creation process and backstory of her latest book, Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice. Click here to listen to Mahogany’s interview!
Meet the Creator: Jen Wang
Creator Jen Wang spoke with TeachingBooks.Net about the creation process and backstory of her Asian Pacific American Literature Children’s Literature Award winner, Stargazing. Click here to listen to Jen’s interview!
Visit our ALA Annual 2020 Virtual Booth
We’ll miss seeing you all in Chicago this year, but you don’t have to miss out on scoring digital ARCs of upcoming titles on NetGalley, entering to win a bundle of some of our favorite Fall 2020 ARCs, meeting your favorite authors, downloadable resources, and more! Visit our virtual booth below!
Meet the Author: Mariko Tamaki
Author Mariko Tamaki spoke with TeachingBooks.Net about the creation process and backstory of her Printz honor book, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me. Click here to listen to Mariko’s interview!
Meet the Author: Alyssa Hollingsworth
Author Alyssa Hollingsworth spoke with TeachingBooks.Net about the creation process of her two books, The Eleventh Trade and The Invisible Boy.
Click here to listen to her interview on The Eleventh Trade.
Click here to listen to her interview on The Invisible Boy.
Author Interview with Dita Kraus, the Librarian of Auschwitz, and more books for Holocaust Remembrance Day
Dita Kraus grew up in Prague in an intellectual, middle-class Jewish family. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, fourteen-year-old Dita was one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. There, she met Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch, who put Dita in charge of protecting eight precious volumes that prisoners managed to sneak past the guards. And so, Dita became known as the Librarian of Auschwitz.
Dita shares her remarkable life story in her breathtaking new memoir for teens and adults, A DELAYED LIFE. Dita’s incredible story was also fictionalized in the outstanding young adult novel, THE LIBRARIAN OF AUSCHWITZ.
Read an interview with Dita Kraus and find more books to share with young readers for Holocaust Remembrance Day here.
Meet the Author: Christian McKay Heidicker
Author Christian McKay Heidicker spoke with TeachingBooks.Net about the creation process and backstory of his Newbery honor book, Scary Stories for Young Foxes. Click here to listen to Christian’s interview!