Laura Shovan’s debut middle grade novel, The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary, was a NCTE 2017 Notable Verse Novel, a Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Book of the year, and won a Cybils Award for poetry. It was named the Arnold Adoff Poetry Award for New Voices honor book in 2018. Laura’s second children’s novel, Takedown, launched in June, 2018. She lives with her family in Maryland, where she is a longtime poet-in-the-schools for the Maryland State Arts Council.
Laura Shovan
Favorite Books
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Ginger Pye, Eleanor Estes
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E. L. Konigsburg
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Judy Blume
Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
Years Mentored
2016, 2017
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