Daniel José Older is the author of the A Bone Street Rumba Novel urban fantasy series from Penguin’s Roc Books and the Young Adult novel Shadowshaper (Scholastic, 2015), a New York Times Notable Book of 2015, which was shortlisted for the Kirkus Prize in Young Readers’ Literature and the Andre Norton Award, and named one of Esquire’s “80 Books Every Person Should Read”.
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We’d love your help. The book begins with her grandfather muttering, “Lo siento, lo siento …” Older’s combative style can make you wonder how he defines success.
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3 votes He won the International Latino Book Award and has been nominated for the Kirkus Prize, the Mythopoeic Award, the Locus Award, the Andre Norton Award, and yes, the World Fantasy Award. The decisions of her elders help Sierra discover her own power and the family history that’s followed her into the perilous streets of Bed-Stuy.
Which YA/MG book would you like the group to read in September 2015? Sierra couldn't find a single brown face on the block.
At this point, there's only one real qu" Last year, Older also values the supportive community of fellow writers of colour. Welcome back.
A place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. Sana debuted in the pages of Marvel’s Star Wars comic, shortly after the destruction of the first Death Star, trying to track down our favorite scoundrel and claiming to be his wife — which she was and wasn’t. "I am guessing this is the first book in a series?
Daniel José Older Daniel José Older is the New York Times bestselling author of the Bone Street Rumba urban fantasy series from Penguin’s Roc Books and the Young Adult novel Shadowshaper (Scholastic’s Arthur A. Levine Books, 2015), which was nominated for the Kirkus Prize in Young Readers’ Literature, the Norton Award and the Locus Award. Here are the stories and essays I published in 2015, divided by which category they’re eligible for in […] — 111601 members
You drive like a wild maniac, and I respect that.” This is a book club for blerds, nerds, bleeks, and geeks to discuss, review, and reflect on the books thWe are many minds wrapped around a good book.
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Daniel José Older is a Brooklyn-based writer, editor, and composer.
This kind of diversity, he feels, is lacking in most other fantasy YA novels.
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Non-librarians are welcome to join the group as well, to A place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. He won the International Latino Book Award and has been nominated for the Kirkus Prize, the Mythopoeic Award, the Locus Award, the Andre Norton Award, and yes, the World Fantasy Award. We’d love your help. A mix of historical and contemporary slang keeps the prose fresh and appealing to contemporary readers."
The place Sierra and Bennie used to get their hair done had turned into a fancy bakery of some kind, and yes, the coffee was good, but you couldn't get a cup for less than three dollars.
Her family has gone to great lengths to conceal that fact from her, but now it’s Sierra’s responsibility to protect them from what’s coming.Older’s imagined Brooklyn is full of danger, less gentrified than the real-life version, and decidedly diverse. “It’s really nice to meet you, sir.
This is a book club for blerds, nerds, bleeks, and geeks to discuss, review, and reflect on the books they love. "So much fun. 25.0% “A scar isn't about the injury, it's about the healing.”
“Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light.
“It’s a whole other kind of sorcery—pulling the pieces of a shattered heart back together, and it’s one I know nothing about.”
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Daniel José Older is the New York Times bestselling author of the Young Adult series the Shadowshaper Cypher (Scholastic), the Bone Street Rumba urban fantasy series (Penguin), and the upcoming Middle Grade sci-fi adventure Flood City (Scholastic). She can, as it turns out, interact with the spirit world. “Bennie's corner of Brooklyn looked different every time Sierra passed through it. And he sees himself, explicitly, as an outsider to the literary and publishing scene: “I entered the writing work clearly and strategically to do this thing, to write these books, to get them into the world and fuck with people, and to generally fuck shit up,” he says at a restaurant in Brooklyn.Shadowshaper is set in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighbourhood of Brooklyn, where Older lives.
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That’s mission accomplished. “We’re doing something very political by deciding whose life matters, where we’re going to focus things, and who we erase from the picture,” he says.