While violence runs rampant throughout New York, a teenage girl faces danger within her own home in Meg Medina's riveting coming-of-age novel. Nora Lopez is seventeen during the infamous New York summer of , when the city is besieged by arson, a massive blackout, and a serial killer named Son of Sam who shoots young women on the www.doorway.ru by: 1. While violence runs rampant throughout New York, a teenage girl faces danger within her own home in Meg Medina's riveting coming-of-age novel. Nora Lopez is seventeen during the infamous New York summer of , when the city is besieged by arson, a massive blackout, and a serial killer named Son of Sam who shoots young women on the streets/5(). Meg Medina is an award-winning Cuban American author who writes picture books, middle grade, and YA fiction. Her most recent young adult novel, Burn Baby Burn, has earned numerous distinctions including being long listed for the National Book Award and shortlisted for the Kirkus Prize.
Meg Medina is an award-winning Cuban American author who writes picture books, middle grade, and YA fiction. Her most recent young adult novel, Burn Baby Burn, has earned numerous distinctions including being long listed for the National Book Award and shortlisted for the Kirkus www.doorway.ru is the recipient of the Pura Belpré honor medal for her picture book, Mango, Abuela and Me, and. Award-winning author Meg Medina transports us to a time when New York seemed balanced on a knife-edge, with tempers and temperatures running high, to share the story of a young woman who discovers that the greatest dangers are often closer than we like to admit — and the hardest to accept. Burn Baby Burn releases March 8 from Candlewick Press. Meg Medina was raised in Queens, New York, where she lived in , one of the worst years in the city's history. About Burn Baby Burn, she says, "While telling Nora's story, I was writing about violence at the tipping point, both in a city and in a family. Young people then and now sometimes have to grow up against a backdrop of.
Her work examines how cultures intersect, as seen through the eyes of young people, and speaks both to the qualities of Latino culture that are unique and those that are universal. Born and raised in Queens, New York, Ms. Medina was thirteen years old in , the year this novel is set. Meg Medina is an award-winning Cuban American author who writes picture books, middle grade, and YA fiction. Her most recent young adult novel, Burn Baby Burn, has earned numerous distinctions including being long listed for the National Book Award and shortlisted for the Kirkus Prize. Burn Baby Burn PDF book by Meg Medina Read Online or Free Download in ePUB, PDF or MOBI.
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