“Tell the truth. Always”. A Juneteenth Interview with Sandra Headen on Warrior On the Mound

Listen to your librarians. They’ll show you where the good stuff is.

Long before a publicist from Holiday House reached out to me about Sandra W. Headen’s multi-starred middle grade novel Warrior On the Mound, I already knew all about it, all thanks to the incredible reading of my fellow librarians. They’d told me that the book contained, “an undeniable power,” and used words like “compelling”, “engaging”, and “lean.” Little wonder that I’d want to know more about it.

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