RISING FROM THE ASHES 🔥📚 Join Yoo on my fall book tour! Dates and info below!

November 12, 2024 (5:30 PM ET): I will discuss and sign my latest YA Nonfiction book, RISING FROM THE ASHES: LOS ANGELES, 1992. EDWARD JAE SONG LEE, LATASHA HARLINS, RODNEY KING, AND A CITY ON FIRE (W.W. Norton & Co./Norton Young Readers 2024) at the Penn Bookstore in Philadelphia, PA. For more info: Penn Bookstore

November 16, 2024 (10 AM CT): Join Yoo and moderator Catenya McHenry for a discussion of my RISING FROM THE ASHES book at the Texas Book Festival in Austin, TX. For more info: https://texasbookfestival.org

November 16, 2024 (1 PM CT): Join Yoo who will moderate an AAPI/Asian American history panel with authors Erika Lee, Christina Soontornvat, and Joanna Ho at the Texas Book Festival in Austin, TX. For more info: https://texasbookfestival.org

November 18, 2024 (7:30 AM-2 PM ET): Join Yoo in a special joint University of Connecticut & UConn Asian American Cultural Center class event being held at Simsbury High School in Simsbury, CT. For more info: 11/18 Book Talk With Author Paula Yoo

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER ISSUE OF THE HORN BOOK MAGAZINE: Check out my essay, “My Own Sa I Gu,” in the November/December 2024 issue of the Horn Book Magazine about my Korean American identity journey in writing RISING FROM THE ASHES. “Reflections on telling a difficult true story about the 1992 Los Angeles uprising for teens.” Link: https://www.hbook.com/story/november-december-2024-toc

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PRAISE FOR “RISING FROM THE ASHES”: ⭐️ Kirkus Reviews ⭐️ Publishers Weekly ⭐️ School Library Journal ⭐️ The Center for Children’s Books ⭐️ The Horn Book. Chosen as one of Publishers Weekly’s “Best Books of 2024” list. A 2024 Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. (Photo credit: Hyungwon Kang)