{"product_id":"blackbird-fly-9780062238610","title":"Blackbird Fly","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFuture rock star or friendless misfit? That's no choice at all. In this acclaimed novel by Newbery Medalist Erin Entrada Kelly, twelve-year-old Apple grapples with being different; with friends and backstabbers; and with following her dreams.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e called \u003cem\u003eBlackbird Fly \u003c\/em\u003e\"a true triumph,\" and the\u003cem\u003e Los Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e said, \"Apple soars like the eponymous blackbird of her favorite Beatles song.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eApple has always felt a little different from her classmates. She and her mother moved to Louisiana from the Philippines when she was little, and her mother still cooks Filipino foods and chastises Apple for becoming \"too American.\" When Apple's friends turn on her and everything about her life starts to seem weird and embarrassing, Apple turns to music. If she can just save enough to buy a guitar and learn to play, maybe she can change herself. It might be the music that saves her . . . or it might be her two new friends, who show her how special she really is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eErin Entrada Kelly deftly brings Apple's conflicted emotions to the page in her debut novel about family, friendship, popularity, and going your own way. \"A must-read for those kids cringing at their own identities.\"--\u003cem\u003eBulletin of the Center for Children's Books.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKelly, Erin Entrada:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times-\u003c\/em\u003ebestselling author \u003cstrong\u003eErin Entrada Kelly\u003c\/strong\u003e was awarded the Newbery Medal for\u003cem\u003e Hello, Universe \u003c\/em\u003eand a Newbery Honor for \u003cem\u003eWe Dream of Space.\u003c\/em\u003e She grew up in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and now lives in Delaware. She is a professor of children's literature in the graduate fiction and publishing programs at Rosemont College, where she earned her MFA, and is on the faculty at Hamline University. Her short fiction has been nominated for the Philippines Free Press Literary Award for Short Fiction and the Pushcart Prize. Erin Entrada Kelly's debut novel, \u003cem\u003e Blackbird Fly, \u003c\/em\u003ewas a Kirkus Best Book, a School Library Journal Best Book, an ALSC Notable Book, and an Asian\/Pacific American Literature Honor Book. She is also the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Land of Forgotten Girls, \u003c\/em\u003ewinner of the Asian\/Pacific American Award for Literature; \u003cem\u003eYou Go First, \u003c\/em\u003ea Spring 2018 Indie Next Pick; \u003cem\u003eLalani of the Distant Sea, \u003c\/em\u003e an Indie Next Pick; and \u003cem\u003eMaybe Maybe Marisol Rainey, \u003c\/em\u003e which she also illustrated. The author's mother was the first in her family to immigrate to the United States from the Philippines, and she now lives in Cebu.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Greenwillow Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50459905065234,"sku":"9780062238610","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c0ea234d-3c95-497c-895b-7407ee53bc24.jpg?v=1744210435","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/blackbird-fly-9780062238610","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}