Author: E.M. Kokie

Review: The Quickest Kid In Clarksville

At the 1960 Olympic Games, African American sprinter Wilma Rudolph became the first woman from the United States to win three gold medals at the same Olympics.  Rudolph grew up in Clarksville, Tennessee, a segregated town. After her victories, Rudolph…

Review: Pax by Sara Pennypacker

The Fox felt the car slow before the boy did, as he felt everything first. So begins Sara Pennypacker’s middle grade novel Pax (Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins, February 2016), a book about many things, including the effects of war. Not some…

Interview With Author Shannon Gibney

Shannon Gibney‘s debut young adult novel See No Color (Carolrhoda Lab, November 2015) opens with a prologue. The six-year-old version of main character Alex Kirtridge is sitting on her father’s lap, obstensibly learning to fill out a score card for…