I hope your summer was as relaxing as mine! School is back in session, and I’m lining up school visits now for the year. Please contact me at info (at) skilabrown.com for rates and availability.
Caminar is out in paperback!
And To Stay Alive is just a few weeks away from releasing. You can pre-order a copy here, here, or here. Some kind reviews have been arriving in my inbox:
“The gravity of the cannibalism, now synonymous with the Donner Party, is treated deftly, conveying Mary Ann’s visceral reactions without becoming steeped in grisly detail. As loss compounds loss, brevity and repetition…intensify key moments in a harrowing, exhausting trek.”
—Publishers Weekly, starred review“Across four seasons, Brown uses words and form effectively to evoke the hopeful idealism, love, joy, and life-or-death terror they feel along the way…A solid introduction to a somber episode in American history.”
—Kirkus“The strong novel in verse uses beautiful, descriptive words to depict the vastness of the landscape and the emotional and mental toll of perpetual suffering. This is a well-crafted narrative…”
—School Library Journal
Stay tuned this fall for an educator’s guide for the text, as well as details about my trip west to retrace Mary Ann’s footsteps. All coming to the blog soon!