Featured as Classroom Book of the Week! And here’s the author interview!
Escaping Into the Night
Paperback edition is now here!
Association of Jewish Libraries Notable Book for Older Readers
New York Public Library, Best Books for the Teen Age 2007
American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults Nominee
Children’s Book Council/National Council of Social Studies
(CBC/NCSS) Trade Book
VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates) Top Shelf Fiction
“A vivid, masterful portrayal … an important contribution to the Holocaust narrative.”
–Livia Bitton Jackson, author of I Have Lived a Thousand Years
Playing Dad’s Song
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, September 2006)
It’s been two years since Gus’s father was killed in the World Trade Center, and Gus can’t figure out how to move on. His mother thinks he needs to do something – anything – so she rents him an oboe and signs him up for lessons with her boss’s elderly father, Mr. M. As Gus’s friendship with Mr. M. develops, so does his passion for classical music, and soon he decides to compose a song of his own, a tribute to his father. But even if Gus can find a way to wrap up his father’s life in a single song, will he ever find the courage to play it?
A satisfying look at the emotions and coping mechanisms of a young boy struggling with an enormous, unexplained loss in his life.–VOYAA moving, heartfelt story –Kirkus
Dina discusses Playing Dad’s Song on Writer’s Voice.