Author: Anastasia Suen

Anastasia Suen is the author (& ghostwriter) of 450+ fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and prose books for children, teens, and adults: board books, picture books, beginning readers, early chapter books, middle grade books, young adult books, and books for adults.
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Everything Under the Sun

Everything Under the Sun
by Molly Oldfield (Author)

Booktalk: This massive compendium of information grew out of UK author Molly Oldfield’s podcast answering questions from curious children around the world. Here are 366 such questions, along with answers from experts in every imaginable field — one for every day of the year plus an extra one for leap years — with illustrations by a dozen different artists.

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It’s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

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The Hope of Elephants

The Hope of Elephants
by Amanda Rawson Hill (Author)
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Booktalk: Cass and her parents haven’t let her dad’s cancer stop them from having a good life–full of love and poems and one annual World Series game. Now that Dad’s cancer is back, Cass overhears the doctor say that she has a 50% chance of inheriting her dad’s genetic mutation, Li-Fraumeni syndrome. There’s a genetic test Cass can take that will tell her for sure. There’s still so much she wants to do–play baseball, study at the zoo, travel the world with her best friend, Jayla. Would it be better not to know?

When it turns out Dad’s cancer is worse this time, Cass is determined to keep up their World Series tradition while navigating all the change and uncertainty that lies ahead.

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MY FIRST WORLD SERIES

Dad got to throw
the opening pitch.
His blog had gone viral
a couple of months before.
I don’t remember much.
I was only four.

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