Author Paolo Bacigalupi will speak at the Bethesda Library on Thursday May 10, 5pm. He will discuss his new book The Drowned Cities. Sequel or companion to Ship Breaker, this powerful book is both well written and powerful. All are invited to attend. Copies of his books will be for sale through an agreement with Politics and Prose Bookstore. For more information, email kathie.weinberg@montgomerycountymd.gov
Twelve-year-old Omakayas reaches puberty, travels north toward others of her Ojibwe tribe, and endures a starving time in this third story in The Birchbark House series which also features pencil sketches by the author.