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Ina debut novel that's perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Erin Entrada Kelly, award-winning author/illustrator and educator Pat Cummingstells a poignant storyaboutgrief,love, and theuntold storiesthatechoacrosstime. Trace Carter doesn't know howtofeel at ease in his new life in New York. Even thoughhis artsy Auntie Lea is cool, her brownstone still isn't hishome. Haunted by flashbacks of the accident that killed his parents, the best he can do is try to distract himself from memories of the past.But the past isn't done with him. When Trace takes a wrong turninthe New York Public Library, he finds someone else lost in the stackswith him: a crying little boy,wearingold,tattered clothes.And though at first he can't quite believe he's seen a ghost, Trace soon discovers that theboy he sawhas ties to Trace's own history - and that hehimselfmay be the key to setting the dead to rest.
About the Author
In addition to the Coretta Scott King, the Orbis Pictus, the NAACP Image Award and the Boston Globe-Horn Book awards, Pat Cummings is the recipient of nine t-shirts, twenty two mugs, seven hundred forty-five ballerina drawings and one embroidered pillow from readers. After graduating from Pratt Institute she began a career as a freelance illustrator, working on editorial, advertising, theatrical and, eventually, picture book projects . Pat is the author and/or illustrator of over 35 books, both fiction and non-fiction, from board books to young adult. Her TALKING WITH ARTISTS series features prominent children's book illustrators while TALKING WITH ADVENTURERS, co-authored and edited with her sister, Linda Cummings Minor, PhD. features interviews and profiles of explorers and scientists such as Jane Goodall and Robert Ballard. She has worked as a producer and writer for Nickelodeon's Gullah Gullah Island and now teaches children's book illustration and writing at Parsons, The New School for Design and Pratt Institute. Former gifted and award-winning students of her class include David Eza Stein, Hiroe Nakata and Julian Hector. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Pat was an Army brat and grew up in Germany, Okinawa, Kansas and Virginia. She and her husband Chuku Lee, author of her latest book, live in a loft in beautiful downtown Brooklyn, New York. Their new picture book, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, is due from HarperCollins in February 2014.
