![]() ![]() NBC News: Your books delve heavily into the Latino experience. "If readers walk away thinking about the voices that are at the margins of history and thinking about how race plays a role in people’s lives, I’d be very happy with those outcomes," says novelist Ashley Hope Pérez. My kids are 25 to 28 now and they have families, but in my mind I still see them as they were in my (high school) classroom and I think about what they’re passionate about. I’m just interested in telling interesting human stories about adolescence. I don’t think in terms of what teens can handle. Pérez: I really think about young readers as increasingly capable and powerful readers because I was a teacher and I know what kind of books I wanted to have to offer my students. ![]()
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