Walking and Talking with . . . Ruta Sepetys

In 2011 I traveled to Bologna in the spring to attend the largest children’s rights fair in the world. While there, I was able to meet and speak with a number of other Americans. And though my concentration has always been children’s books rather than YA, I had just the nicest conversation with Ruta Sepetys. She’d just come out with Between Shades of Gray and since the featured country at the fair that year was Lithuania, her presence made a lot of sense.

Today, Steve Sheinkin continues his “Walkin...