Room Made of Windows – Karen Cushman https://www.karencushman.com Newbery award-winning author Wed, 01 Sep 2021 11:57:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/www.karencushman.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/favicon.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Room Made of Windows – Karen Cushman https://www.karencushman.com 32 32 197177275 Books set in California https://www.karencushman.com/books-set-in-california/ Thu, 02 Apr 2015 12:02:34 +0000 https://www.karencushman.com/blog/?p=1443 Read more]]> Question: You grew up in California and two of your books are set there, The Ballad of Lucy Whipple and The Loud Silence of Francine Green. Do you have favorite books written about the state?

Answer:
A Room Made of Windows, Eleanor Cameron—part of a series about Julia Redfern who lives in Berkeley in the 1920s.

We Were Here, Matt de la Pena—YA that “follows a journey of self-discovery by a boy who is trying to forgive himself in an unforgiving world.”

The Al Capone books by Gennifer Choldenko

Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O’Dell

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