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• Winner of Sydney Taylor Book Award (Teen) 2020

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DeWoskin explores a rarely depicted topic. . .A beautifully nuanced exploration of culture and people. -Kirkus Reviews, starred review An unusual portrait of what war does to families in general and children in particular . . . affirms the human need for art and beauty in hard times. -Booklist, starred review A provocative exploration of what resilience means when you're pushed to the edge. -BCCB

DeWoskin explores a rarely depicted topic. . .A beautifully nuanced exploration of culture and people. -Kirkus Reviews, starred review An unusual portrait of what war does to families in general and children in particular . . . affirms the human need for art and beauty in hard times. -Booklist, starred review A provocative exploration of what resilience means when you're pushed to the edge. -BCCB

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Rachel DeWoskin spent her twenties in China as the unlikely star of a nighttime soap opera that inspired her memoir Foreign Babes in Beijing. She is the author of Repeat After Me and Big Girl Small, which received the American Library Association's Alex Award for an adult book with special appeal to teen readers; Rachel's conversations with young readers inspired her to write her first YA novel, Blind. Rachel is on the faculty of the University of Chicago, where she teaches creative writing. She lives in Chicago with her husband, playwright Zayd Dohrn, and their two daughters. Rachel and her family spent six summers in Shanghai while she researched Someday We Will Fly.

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