Lisa Yoskowitz

2 months ago | hbook.com | Amanda Uhle |Dave Eggers |Lisa Yoskowitz |Alexandra Hightower

WinnerThe First State of Being by Erin Entrada KellyIntermediate, Middle School    Greenwillow    272 pp. 3/24    9780063337312    $19.99e-book ed. 9780063337336    $9.99It’s the summer of 1999. Twelve-year-old Delawarean Michael has worries, chief among them the approach of Y2K. What if everything falls apart? Family finances are precarious, so he’s amassing a stash of groceries acquired through shoplifting. Then he meets an odd new kid.

Jul 17, 2024 | hbook.com | Amanda Uhle |Dave Eggers |Lisa Yoskowitz |Alexandra Hightower

Dave Eggers. Photo: Mark Davis. Dave Eggers believes that true friends exist. His unwavering faith is carried onto every page of The Eyes and the Impossible, the 2024 winner of the Newbery Medal. Its protagonist, Johannes, is a free dog, a fast dog — oh, what a fast dog — who keeps watch over a sprawling urban park where he lives among his beloved friends.

Jul 10, 2024 | hbook.com | Christopher Curtis |Lisa Yoskowitz

I am the father of three very young children: Ayaan, now thirteen, Ebyaan, now twelve, and my ten-year-old son, Libaan. I am the father of three very young children: Ayaan, now thirteen, Ebyaan, now twelve, and my ten-year-old son, Libaan. The differences in our ages are such that strangers frequently approach me and tell me how sweet and well behaved my grandchildren are. This is not the sort of thing that bothers me.

Jul 2, 2024 | hbook.com | Dare Coulter |Lisa Yoskowitz

I just want to start by saying the real award for me is to be honored by all of you. To be in a room full of people who have fought the fight and have done the work that ­embodies what the Coretta Scott King Book Awards represent is humbling. I’m grateful for every closed door that might have led me anywhere but right here. To this moment. I’d like to acknowledge the collective hundreds of years of work from all of you; the shared history of intentional change is absolutely mind-blowing.

Jul 2, 2024 | hbook.com | Ibi Zoboi |Lisa Yoskowitz |Alexandra Hightower

I have been writing and telling stories my entire adult life. My first love was journalism — what I consider to be ­truth-telling. Then I fell in love with spoken word poetry — what I consider to be testifying. The need to tell the truth and to testify has always fueled my passion to write. It is my purpose and my life’s work. I was born in Haiti. English is not my first language. I was raised by a single immigrant mother. And where I come from, writers are silenced or sent into exile.