The Real Meaning of Friends: Linda Urban on Hound Dog True; Tom Angleberger on Darth Paper Strikes Back; Debbie Levy on The Year of Goodbyes
Saturday, Nov. 19, 11:30 a.m., Room 1164 (Building 1, 1st Floor)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Linda Urban
In her first novel for young adults, Hound Dog True (Harcourt, $15.99) Linda Urban traces a highly self-conscious child's cautious emergence from her shell. ". . .fine writing and real characters," Says School Library Journal in its starred review. Urban is the author of children's books, including A Crooked Kind of Perfect and Mouse Was Bad.
Tom Angleberger
In Darth Paper Strikes Back: An Origami Yoda Book (Amulet Books, $12.95), Dwight, a sixth-grade loser, talks to his classmates via an origami finger puppet of Yoda. Angleberger’s Strange Case of Origami Yoda was hailed as “delightful” by The New York Times and called “the most original novel of the year” by the Boston Globe. With his proven knack for humorously exploring the intrigues, fads, and dramas of middle school, Angleberger has crafted a worthy sequel to his breakout bestseller.
Debbie Levy
Inspired by her mother's poesiealbum (poetry album), which survived her childhood retreat from Nazi Germany in 1938, Debbie Levy's The Year of Goodbyes: A true story of friendship, family and farewells (Hyperion, $16.99) recounts her mom's happy childhood, which gradually becomes darker and more frightening as Germany begins its descent into madness. Intended for readers in grades 5-8 and told in free-verse, the book includes reproductions of the original drawings, poems and photos.
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Room 1164 (Building 1, 1st Floor)
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