#laurel snyder

[anicarissi]

Laurel Snyder’s novels are always enchanting and unusual, and I can feel the magic in this one from the very first page 💚

[illustration-alcove]

Ramona Kaulitzki’s cover for Laurel Snyder’s My Jasper June.

[lostography]

...she’d read everything she could get her hands on. The books were fun. The books were a welcome distraction. But the books were actually far more than that. The books were from the other place, the world out there.

Laurel Snyder, Orphan Island

[nationalbook]

“Mom always says you can solve most problems at the library, and there's a lady there who's my friend. We could ask her about helping Bernice. She has to answer people's questions. It's her job.” ― Laurel Snyder

Laurel Snyder, author of Orphan Island and 2017 Young People’s literature Longlist author

[mcnallykids]

I waited to begin Orphan Island until I knew I could spend the whole day with it, because I suspected once I dove in I wasn't going to surface until the last page--and I was right. But days later I find myself drifting back to the island and its denizens again and again. Orphan Island is that kind of place and that kind of book. The kid in me was carried away by the wildness and mystery and adventure even as the parent in me ached with the bittersweet and sometimes brutal truths underpinning it all. -Kate Milford, McJ kids’ bookseller and Edgar award-winning author of Greenglass House. 

[nationalbook]

Try to decide what to read this weekend? Look no further than two of our amazing 2017 Young People’s Literature Longlist titles

[walden-media]

MY JASPER JUNE by Laurel Snyder https://www.walden.com/books/my-jasper-june/

[lostography]

It sounded like this would be summer camp when you all told us about it. But it isn’t. It’s days and months and years, and the adventure is gone now, and it feels like forever. Can you remind me why we’re doing this? It’s hard not to feel lonely sometimes, and sad.

Laurel Snyder, Orphan Island