Talk About A Power Lunch

Seventeen students from King Middle School in Portland, Maine traveled with two teachers and their fabulous librarian, Kelley McDaniel, to lunch with me today at a Burmese restaurant in Boston.  What a memory! I love my job.



My first stop was my ever-generous publisher Charlesbridge, where Donna Spurlock gave me books to give as gifts to the kids.

YoMa ("mountain") Burmese restaurant is owned by a Shan man who came to Boston in 1993 after receiving political asylum for his role in the...