Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos. Holt, $22.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9835-8
Collaborating as their subjects did, Aronson and Budhos (Sugar Changed the World) vividly and intimately recount the story of pioneering war photojournalists Robert Capa (1913–1954) and Gerda Taro (1910–1937). Writing in the present tense to...
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Marina Budhos, Author . Atheneum/Seo $16.95 (162p) ISBN 978-1-4169-0351-2
As Budhos's (House of Waiting
, for adults) provocative novel opens, 14-year-old narrator Nadira Hossain and her family are heading north to Canada, seeking asylum from the harassment that has become routine in the U.S. in the wake of 9/11. The...
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Marina Budhos, S&S/Atheneum, $16.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4169-0352-9
Budhos's (Ask Me No Questions) sensitive exploration of immigrant lives focuses on eighth graders Jaya, Lola, and Maria, who are from Trinidad, Slovakia, and Mexico, respectively. They bond over the everyday conflicts and humiliations that come with
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Marina Budhos, Author Putnam Publishing Group $23.95 (254p) ISBN 978-0-399-14473-8
Adolescent Meggie Singh faces her complex personal history as she struggles under her genius father's demanding tutelage in this luminous second novel by Budhos that chronicles Indo-Caribbean displacement. Eight sections, each concluding with a...
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Marina Budhos. Random/Lamb, $17.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-553-53418-4
A Muslim teen adrift in his post-9/11 Queens neighborhood makes a dangerous bargain in a stirring novel about coming of age amid intensive police surveillance and racial profiling. After 11-year-old Naeem travels from Bangladesh to Jackson Heights...
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Marina Budhos. Random/Lamb, $16.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-553-53422-1
In this autobiographical novel, Budhos (Watched) takes a close look at how 1971 integration efforts in Queens affect seventh graders from a predominantly white neighborhood when they are bussed nearly an hour away to a junior high in an underserved...
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Marina Budhos. Penguin/Lamb, $17.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-593-12020-0
When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detains her mother, Pakistani teen Rania Hasan struggles to navigate the aftermath in a gut-wrenching tale by Budhos (The Long Ride). Following her journalist father’s disappearance when Rania was...
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