News
TELL US WE'RE HOME is now in paperback and joins ASK ME NO QUESTIONS as part of Scholastic Book Clubs--
Sugar Changed the World has been 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. Ask Me No Questions is currently being developed as a feature film--produced by veteran producer Jane Startz, with Danielle Lurie as director, and screenplay by Alexandra Viets.
EVENTS
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