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Blog postI was honored to participate in the Library of Congress' National Book Festival. Author Misa Sugiura and I were interviewed by Lee Ann Potter on the teen stage, followed by a signing. Below are a few photos along with my answer to a question from a teen in the audience about surviving growing up between cultures. Thanks to Macmillan for sending me and to the Library of Congress for inviting me.
The day started with a Jesse Dittmar photo shoot hosted by Lily News of the Was -
Blog postFriends, it looks like Rickshaw Girl the Movie is in post-production! The filmmakers are hoping for a March 2020 release, but I'll keep you posted. I'm swooning over the new poster they just created.
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Blog postI've had a busy few months on the road, speaking at schools, libraries, conferences, and bookstores. Honestly, I've been talking so much that I'm sick of the sound of my own voice. This month, I'm taking some time to be silent in my introvert's cave. Thank goodness, some of you might say. Others of you, however, hopefully aren't tired of listening to me. If that's the case, here are some links to places and events to track my conversations.
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Blog postMy eleventh book makes it to the finish line, thanks to the wisdom, creativity, and collaboration of my editor Grace Kendall, my agent Laura Rennert, and the amazing team of support at Macmillan Books. Friends, I'm humbled by your belief in my work. Thanks, too, for the serendipity/grace of scheduling Forward Me Back to You's release on my beloved Daddy's birthday. I dedicate it to him with a kiss to eternity.
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Blog postThe marketing team at Macmillan sent some photos today as we're less than two weeks away from April 2, the publication date of Forward Me Back to You and the paperback release of You Bring the Distant Near. Also, that's my beloved Daddy's birthday, a lovely serendipity since I didn't pick the release date and I miss him every day. Anyway, the photos are gorgeous.
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Blog postThe folks at Macmillan School and Library commissioned brilliant educator Kathleen Odean to create an educator's guide that lines up with Common Core curricula requirements, and here it is! Feel free to download (click below for .tiff files and then as .png files), share, and use.
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Blog postI'm launching my newest novel FORWARD ME BACK TO YOU in three states, and you're invited to the parties.
(1) In the Boston area? Join us at Newtonville Books on Sunday, April 7th at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
(2) In the San Francisco Bay Area? Come to Orinda Books on Saturday, April 13th at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
(3) In the Seattle area? I'll be at Brick and Mortar Books in Redmond on Monday, April 15th at 6 o'clock in the evening.
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Blog postJust as that familiar mob inside my head begins their screech of discouragement about this “writing career you chose,” my dear friends at Andrea Brown Literary Agency sent me this celebration of my vocation. Thank you! And wow!
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Blog postMitali and Company's Discussion Guide for Service Trips Across Borders of Power
Questions to accompany a group read of Forward Me Back To You by Mitali Perkins:PG asks Kat, Gracie, and Ravi to answer two questions about their service trip before they go. “I want to…” “I hope to …” Finish the sentences for yourself and seal in an envelope to read when you return.Why was it important for Ravi, Kat, and Gracie to study Bangla? Do you plan to learn any words or phrases in the langu -
Blog postThanks to Barnes and Noble for hosting an exclusive cover reveal and excerpt of FORWARD ME BACK TO YOU, my novel releasing 4/2/19 from Macmillan FSG. Here's the description of the book:Katina King is the reigning teen jujitsu champion of Northern California, but she’s having trouble fighting off the secrets in her past. Robin Thornton was adopted from an orphanage in India and is reluctant to take on his future. If he can’t find his roots, how can he possibly plan ahead? Robin and
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Blog postWhen I visit schools for author visits in the United States I ask if anyone in the room has heard of Bengali, or Bangla, my mother tongue. Apart from a few raised hands here and there, most non-Indian students don’t know much about the wide variety of languages in the country of my birth. Twenty-two major languages are spoken in India, including Bangla, which is the seventh most commonly-spoken language in the world.
I encourage students not to ask people of Indian descent this ques -
Blog postYOU BRING THE DISTANT NEAR (Macmillan | FSG) has received some exciting responses. Before it came out, EW picked it as one of the most anticipated young adult novels of the year. On release day, which is thrilling enough, I heard that it was nominated for the National Book Award! It also won a Walter Honor Award! I was thrilled, to say the least.
The book received praise from Bustle and Teen Vogue, and SIX ★ -
Blog postVisited: An Advent Poem
by Mitali Perkins
We wait. Heavy footsteps pass our cell. Again. Once more.Not this time. Not for us.And then.They stop. Key in our door?We leap off the cot.The guard grunts the words we’ve been imagining:“You’re visited.”The halls reek of bleach and blood.Who cares? We want to skip, and race, and dance.But our feet in regulation black must trudge behind slow boots.
Meanwhile, he’s traveled.Miles and miles on deserted, dusty roads.To reach his dest -
Blog postTo celebrate the paperback release of TIGER BOY (Charlesbridge | 6/6), the Avid Reader (apt name for an indie, right?) in Davis, California is hosting an event. You're invited to join us if you're in the Sacramento Valley area.The Avid Reader is excited to welcome Mitali Perkins for a reading, discussion, and signing of her fast-paced and well researched chapter book, “Tiger Boy” on Saturday, June 17th at 1:00 p.m. In a starred review, the School Library Journal writes, “Sure to encourage v
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Blog post"A collection of uproarious stories, rollicking comics, rib-tickling wit, and more,
from 25 of today’s funniest female writers for kids."
Happy Book Birthday to Betsy Bird, editor of FUNNY GIRL (Penguin Random House, 5/9/17) and to all 24 of the other contributors. Here we are, as imagined by author and artist Amy Ignatow:
Note my tiny, regal body. I am revealed as the Queen of Snaildom.
Praise for FUNNY GIRL:
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Blog postMy book RICKSHAW GIRL is about a fictional girl who defies gender roles to try and make money for her family. A friend recently sent me a link to this portrayal of the brave and beautiful Sumi Begum, a young woman who pedals the streets of Dhaka pulling a rickshaw to provide for her family. Her story is heartbreaking and inspiring.
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Blog postFrom time to time, I've posted poems about Good Friday, like this one, and this one. Here is this year's offering.
DIVESTMENT: A Good Friday Poem
By Mitali Perkins
Who speaks, I wonder?
Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do. Who can request this—as nails tear bones and flesh—but Divinity?
The emptying begins.
Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise. Enough Power still to Promise. < -
Blog postThanks to Bustle for a lovely review and exclusive cover reveal of my forthcoming novel, YOU BRING THE DISTANT NEAR (Macmillan FSG | 9/17)."Perkins' new YA novel isn't just an exploration of family, but a tracing of its transformation as it crosses oceans and borderlines. 'You Bring the Distant Near' captures the immigrant experience for one Indian-American family with humor and heart. Told in alternating teen voices across three generations, this elegant YA novel explores sisterhood, first
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Blog postFour Men at Mule Creek State Prison
By Mitali Perkins
He puts on his bifocals and opens the family Bible. For two hours, he reads verses of hope to her in quiet Tagalog. A handkerchief, embroidered by hands buried far away, receives her tears.
She sprints across the room at the sight of him. He scoops her up and she kisses his clean-shaven cheek two dozen times. Her beribboned braids hide his tattoo as he bends to long-kiss her mother on the mouth. -
Blog postJust got back from a wonderful trip to D.C., where I accepted the 2016 South Asia Younger Readers Book Award for TIGER BOY. Here's my awkward (but grateful) speech.
Gauri Manglik of KITAABWORLD handled book sales brilliantly. If you haven't checked out their marvelous site that provides an easy way to choose books about South Asia, you're missing out.What a delight to meet Mathangi Subramaniam, winner of the South Asia Book Award for Older readers for Dear Mrs. Naidu. W -
Blog post2016 Award CeremonyPlease join us for the 2016 South Asia Book Award Celebration!
Friday, December 2, 2016
2016 Award Celebration and Presentations
Providence Community Center
3001 Vaden Drive, Fairfax, VA 22031
6:30 – 8:00 pm
Join us as we honor the achievements of award authors:
Mitali Perkins (Tiger Boy)
Mathangi Subramanian (Dear Mrs. Naidu)
and highly commended author:
Khadija Ejaz (My Friend is Hindu)
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Blog postHere are a few of my favorite writing tips revealed in a chat with Grant Faulkner, Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month.
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Blog postI'm heading to the National Council of Teachers of English Convention in Atlanta this weekend. Here's my schedule if you want to stop by and say hello:
SATURDAY, November 199:00 – 10:00 AM Autographing with Candlewick Press (OPEN MIC: RIFFS ON LIFE BETWEEN CULTURES IN TEN VOICES)
VENUE: Booth 606 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM Panel: "Advocating for Immigrants and Refugees through the Use of Literature and Creative Non-Fiction: Two Authors (one is me!), a Librarian, and Te -
Blog postSome of you know I'm part of a Facebook read-to-change book group. We finished Michele Alexander's THE NEW JIM CROW: MASS INCARCERATION IN THE AGE OF COLORBLINDNESS and are about to start Bryan Stevenson's JUST MERCY. It's not to late to join us as we begin this round of reading next week.
As I'm reading, I find myself wondering which children's and young adult novels feature a main character with an incarcerated parent. I put the question out on twitter, and here are the resu -
Blog postThe Rageot Editeur version of TIGER BOY, translated by Ariane Bataille and illustrated by Aline Bureau, releases this month in France. To see a story created in your imagination translated into another language for kids across borders? One of the best moments in a writer's life. Merci, mon ami!
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Rickshaw Girl
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You Bring the Distant Near
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Bamboo People
Jul 1, 2012
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Forward Me Back to You
Apr 2, 2019
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Tiger Boy
Apr 14, 2015
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Secret Keeper
Dec 24, 2008
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The Not-So-Star-Spangled Life of Sunita Sen
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Monsoon Summer
Dec 18, 2007
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First Daughter: Extreme American Makeover
Jun 14, 2007
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