ABOUT LAURA SHOVAN
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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, as well a Nerdy Book Club award. Laura’s
second children’s novel, Takedown,
launches in Summer, 2018 (Random House). She lives with her family in Maryland,
where she is a longtime poet-in-the-schools for the Maryland State Arts
Council.
PUBLICATIONS - View in Bookstore
- Books
- Magazine Articles
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"Count down the Days with a Waiting Chain"
2006