It’s a brilliant book!
Recipient of a Walter Dean Meyers We Need Diverse Books grant, Jennifer De Leon’s DON’T ASK ME WHERE I’M FROM, in which a girl whose father has been deported back to Guatemala is bussed from her inner city high school to a high achieving suburban one, where fitting into different worlds while holding her family together sows the seeds of burgeoning activism, to Caitlyn Dlouhy at Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, at auction, by Faye Bender at The Book Group (NA).
Italian language rights to Il Castoro, in a pre-empt, by Lora Fountain at Lora Fountain & Associates. Film rights: Michelle Weiner, CAA