May 4, 2025
Esmé Raji Codell is the author of Educating Esme, a diary of a first-year teacher; the acclaimed novel Sahara Special, winner of the IRA Children's Book Award, a Kirkus Editors' Choice for 2003; as well as a memoir for young readers, Sing a Song of Tuna Fish: Hard-to-Swallow Stories from Fifth Grade. She lives in Chicago...