ABOUT THE AUTHOR Benjamin Alire Sáenz is a critically acclaimed and multiple award-winning author, poet and children’s writer. His first book of poems, Calendar of Dust won an American Book Award. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of The Universe is his fourth young-adult novel that is set in the Mexican-American diaspora chronicling the life Read more…

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Louis Sachar is an American author whose rise to fame was solely based on his 1998 young-adult novel Holes. Winner of multiple awards including the 1998 U.S. National Book Award for Young People’s Literature as well as the 1999 Newbery Medal, the book has carved out a permanent place for itself in Read more…

My most cherished childhood memory is of my dad telling me stories right before bedtime. He always ended up falling asleep even before I had. I would again wake him up and request him to finish. On my eighth birthday, I received my first storybook from my dad, The Seven O’clock Tales by Enid Blyton. Read more…