Happy Thursday teenie boppers! May your weekends be long and fruitful.
We couldn’t be more excited for our friend from the Austin Teen Book Festival Eliot Schrefer. Eliot has recently been announced as a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People for his book Endangered.
“Eliot Schrefer, who wrote Endangered (Scholastic), went for a morning run and returned at 9 a.m. to a bunch of excited voicemails from his fiancé, so he knew that something major had happened.
“Then I opened my email while listening to the voicemails, and it all became very clear,” says the author, whose books involves a girl who discovers just how much humans can bond with animals when she visits her mother at her sanctuary for bonobos in Congo. “I’m moved and humbled by being a finalist. To be acknowledged, yes, but also because I’ll get to meet my fellow nominees and the committee members, whom I admire a ton.””
Read the full article HERE.
The winners will be announced Wednesday, November 14 during a ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.
Endangered was released at the beginning of October, and is a YA must read!
“When Sophie has to visit her mother at her sanctuary for bonobos in Congo, she’s not thrilled to be there. It’s her mother’s passion, and Sophie doesn’t want to have anything to do with it. At least not until Otto, an infant bonobo, comes into her life, and for the first time she feels the bond a human can have with an animal. But peace does not last long for Sophie and Otto. When an armed revolution breaks out, the sanctuary is attacked, and the two of them must escape unprepared into the jungle. Caught in the crosshairs of a lethal conflict, they must struggle to keep safe, to eat, and to survive.”
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