If you haven’t read Gary D. Schmidt’s Okay For Now, what are you waiting for? Meghan reviewed it for FYA and loved it so much she made it required reading. I read it on my own and loved it too. We even picked it as one of FYA’s top ten reads of 2011 (not many middle-grade books can pull that off!)
If you haven’t read it, now is the perfect time because NPR has selected Okay For Now as its most recent pick for their Backseat Book Club. If you have read it, you can submit your questions for the author here. At the end of February, Gary will be answering readers' questions on All Things Considered. Feel free to share your favorite moments and quotes from the book by tweeting @NPRBackseat and @HMHKids with the hashtag #OK4NOW.
Okay For Now was recently reissued as a paperback with a brand new cover (the awessome one you saw above) and the publisher has been nice enough to provide a giveaway for the FYA readers! Details below!
Giveaway Details!
We have one copy of the new paperback edition of OKAY FOR NOW to give away, autographed (!) by Gary Schmidt. To enter, just leave a comment below, mentioning your favorite North American bird! (US residents only.) I will randomly pick a winner after Friday, 22 February.