News
- This June I'm off to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts for two weeks. My first writer-artist colony stay since my two boys were born--
- I'm happy to announce that I've just received a New Jersey Arts Council grant, based on my novel-in-progress, "Sweetness."
- "What schools need isn't more nonfiction but better nonfiction"--Sara Mosle in The New York Times, "What Should Children Read?"
- Ask Me No Questions is now available as an audio book, narrated beautifully by Abby Craden.
- I'm pleased to announced that Marc and I are signed on for our next co-authored young adult nonfiction book, "The Eyes of the World: A Story of a Man, a Woman, and a Camera" to be published by Henry Holt. It's the very exciting tale of Robert Capa and Gerda Taro, along with their friend Chim, all young photojournalists who went off to photograph the Spanish Civil War and make the world bear witness. This is the new blog for the project: The Eyes of the World.
- Tell Us We're Home is now in paperback and joins Ask Me No Questions as part of the Scholastic Book Clubs.
- Sugar Changed the World shortlisted for the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award. It was also a Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award.
- Both Tell Us We're Home and Sugar Changed the World Featured in Best for Teens 2010 in Kirkus Reviews; Sugar Changed the World a Best Book 2010 in SLJ.
EVENTS
Aronson & Budhos Appear at Lesley University: We had a great time giving a talk about "Sugar Changed the World" and waxing eloquent (we hope) about collaborating as authors and creating vivid nonfiction for young adults.
MARC ARONSON & MARINA BUDHOS APPEAR ON BOOK-TV
Visit to Sudbury, MA where the whole middle school--every teacher, every student- read Ask Me No Questions and discussed it in their classes.
Watchung Books, Montclair, New Jersey, Meet the Author for teens and their moms: Nice turnout with teen girls and their mothers--a little texting and the joint grew even more crowded!
Book Launch of Tell Us We're Home at Words Bookstore in Maplewood. There were definitely a few nods of recognition at the mention of Ultimate Frisbee, nannies walking up from the train cradling their Dunkin' Donut coffees, a quaint Main Street with evergreens twirled around the lampposts at Christmastime ...
... the bookstore filled with readers eager to listen to the author read and discuss her work."
Article in The Maplewood Patch: Local Author Explores Immigration and Suburban Assimilation
A New York City book launch at the Center for Fiction. Nice crowd.
Article in Masalajunction.com
Podcast Reading at Pen Parentis