![]() ![]() ![]() Book Review: Promise the Night, by Michaela Macco.Blog Tour/Book Review: In Darkness, by Nick Lake.Book Review: Behind the Masks: The Diary of Ange.Book Review: The Cats in the Doll Shop, by Yona Z.Book Review: The Lions of Little Rock, by Kristin.Author Interview: Kristin Levine, author of The L.Book Review: An Elephant in the Garden, by Michae.Book Review: In Trouble, by Ellen Levine (Carolrho. ![]() Book Review: Breaking Stalin's Nose, by Eugene Ye.You write with such sensitivity in her voice was she modeled on someone you know? Q: Your main character, Marlee, is painfully shy-so much so that saying five words aloud at school feels like a major accomplishment. A new middle-grade tale from critically acclaimed, award-winning author Kristin Levine about facing your fears, set in Vienna during the Bosnian genocide. I decided that since there were already so many great books about 1957, it would be more interesting to write about the so-called "lost year" instead. I had never heard about the school closings, even though they'd happened in my home state of Virginia as well. So I was actually planning to write about 1957, but when I went to Little Rock to conduct interviews, the people I spoke to talked more about 1958-1959 when all the high schools were closed and no one could go to school. My aunt said she's always wondered what it would have been like to have been at Central during that time. If her family hadn't moved away, her older sister would have been in the sophomore class at Central High School in 1957 when the Little Rock Nine integrated the school. My mother lived in Little Rock until she was nine. ![]()
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