It’s DAY EIGHT of 28 DAYS LATER!
February 8th, 2010
Yasmin Shiraz is today’s featured author on The Brown Bookshelf’s 28 Days Later…and what a treat to meet her there! Yasmin is clearly an award winning author, a mentor, a CEO of a company she formed, a producer, an activist who cares about youth and their culture…and more! The interview hooked me early; hear Yasmin’s first answer about her book Retaliation which by the way is on the YALSA 2009 Top Ten Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers:
“The story that inspired Retaliation came as a result of a workshop that I had done with teen girls in Southeast DC. When I asked young women in the room, “What do you like, what do you love, what do you hate?” a teen girl responded, I hate the girls who jumped me. I couldn’t get her voice out of my head. ”
And I can’t get this interview out of my head today having read it early this morning. Retaliation is now high on my TBR list; check out the interview with Yasmin!
Happy Reading!
Carol
Twitter: @RascofromRIF
Filed under: RIF Multicultural Literacy Campaign, Young Adult (YA) book
Tags: 28 Days Later, Retaliation, The Brown Bookshelf, YALSA 2009 Top Ten Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers, Yasmin Shiraz
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