My best books picks for waning middle grade readers and why I chose these on Shepherd.com
Trying Not to Lose a Reader
Loved writing this post for Teaching Books and sharing the origin story of ENLY AND THE BUSKIN’ BLUES.
#ReadForChange !!!
Had the wonderful opportunity to talk with Marie Marquardt and Teen Librarian Toolbox!
Chinese Books for Young Readers asked me to post about what I was reading when I was growing up.
Chat with Mountain Xpress
Here’s an interview I did with Doug Gibson of Mountain Xpress about my father, writing, and GIRLS ON THE LINE.
Extremely readable nonfiction about modern China
2018 Young China: How the Restless Generation Will Change Their Country and the World by Zak Dychtwald
2018 Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China by Alec Ash
2018 Leftover in China: The Women Shaping the World's Next Superpower by Roseann Lake
2016 One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment by Mei Fong
2014 Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China by Leta Hong Fincher
2011 China in Ten Words by Yu Hua, translated by Allen H. Barr
2010 Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip by Peter Hessler
2008 Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang
2008 Silent Tears: A Journey of Hope in a Chinese Orphanage by Kay Bratt