Esme Raji Codell is the author of the acclaimed novels Sahara Special and Vive La Paris, winner of the IRA Children’s Book Award for Intermediate Fiction, and a Kirkus Editors’ Choice. She is also the author of a memoir for young readers, Sing a Song of Tuna Fish: Hard-to-Swallow Stories from Fifth Grade. A former teacher, bookseller, and children’s librarian, she lives with her husband and son in Chicago.
Esmé tells us about the night she and her mother became "egg vigilantes" against an illegally parked car; her freewheeling first school, where kids sat on sofas instead of at desks and could choose disco dancing instead of math; her da...
