FICTION MADE FROM FACTS: A CONVERSATION WITH SHARON CAMERON & MARUCHI MENDEZ

Two young adult historical novelists join forces for a conversation on finding the fiction in true stories. In Artifice by SHARON CAMERON, as the Nazi occupation sweeps through Europe buying and stealing cultural artifacts, Isa de Smit sells a fake Rembrandt to Hitler himself to secretly help fund a Dutch resistance ring smuggling Jewish babies out of Amsterdam. Based on the true stories of Han Van Meegeren, a master art forger who is credited with saving 600 Jewish children from death in Amsterdam. In Song for Olivia: A Novel Based on a True Story by MARUCHI MENDEZ, 12-year-old Mari and her sister escape from Cuba to start over in Miami as Fidel Castro continues to devastate the loved ones they have left behind. Moderating is VICTORIA MARÍA CASTELLS, middle school teacher and poet.