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1 month ago | slj.com | Mina Ikemoto Ghosh |a Rec |Amanda MacGregor

In this Q&A series, SLJ poses five questions and a request for a book recommendation to a debut YA author. A. A. Vacharat shares about This Moth Saw Brightness in this latest installment. 1. Congrats on your YA debut! How would you describe your book to readers? I’ve found “strange” encapsulates everything most succinctly. “Devastatingly timely” is also accurate, unfortunately.  2. What drew you to YA to tell this story? YA allows risks.

2 months ago | slj.com | Trisha Tobias |a Rec |Amanda MacGregor |Kara Yorio

In this Q&A series, SLJ poses five questions and a request for a book recommendation to a debut YA author. Adina King shares about The House No One Sees in this latest installment. 1. Congrats on your YA debut! How would you describe your book to readers? Thank you! The House No One Sees is a contemporary YA with surrealist elements written in alternating prose and verse. It is the story of Penelope Ross, a girl who must walk through her past to save her present.