An Inside Look with Gae Polisner & Nora Raleigh Baskin
(Authors of Seven Clues to Home)
*The first season of interviews ran from June of 2016 to March of 2017.
*Season #two ran during the summer of 2017.
*Season #three ran during the school year of 2017-2018.
*Season #five ran during the 2018/2019 school year.
*During summer 2019, the sixth season ran.
*The seventh season of interviews ran during the fall of 2019.
*I'm excited to be back for season #EIGHT with brand new interviews/authors.
*It has been such an honor to connect with authors and "chat" about their novel, characters, and thoughts about the story.
*This is the Twenty-First interview in which I'm calling Season #EIGHT.
*Thank you to Gae and Nora for being the One-Hundred Forty-Second authors I've had the pleasure of interviewing. I truly appreciate it.
*Here is my review of the Novel...
Seven Clues to Home
by Gae Polisner and Nora Raleigh Baskin
(June 9, 2020)
Last year, 12-year-old Joy Fonseca and her best friend, Lukas Brunetti of Port Bennington, Long Island sat down with Mr. Patrick Andrus in his 4th grade classroom in Independent School District 272 Eden Prairie, Minnesota to answer a few questions.
Mr. Andrus: So, how did you two meet?
JOY (smiling widely): We’ve known each other since 2nd grade!
LUKAS (looking down, self consciously): Cupcakes.
Mr. Andrus: Cupcakes? Well now, I want to know more but let’s move on. Can you tell what you admire most about each other?
JOY (blushing): Well, Lukas is my best friend.
LUKAS (blushing): Joy is the first person who got
I wasn’t like everyone thought I was.
Mr. Andrus: Isn’t it great when people really get who we are? Is there anything you wish you would have changed or done differently in your story?
JOY (holding back tears, stays silent)
LUKAS: I should have paid better attention.
I should have . . . (shakes his head, stops talking)
Mr. Andrus: I’m sorry for touching on a difficult situation. What do you think you can offer to other children that are experiencing similar situations to what you went through?
JOY: (shrugs) Don’t judge a book by its cover?
LUKAS: I just want people to know what a good friend Joy is. The kind that makes everything better and different.
Mr. Andrus: We all need a friend like that. How did you research "yourselves" and the circumstances you found yourselves in?
JOY: I just listened.
LUKAS: Me? I know this town like the back of my hand.
I did have to keep asking my teacher over and over about the Birthday Paradox, though.
That one is kinda hard to explain.
Mr. Andrus: Listening. Such an important trait to hold. Do the two of you share any similarities?
JOY: Everything!
LUKAS: Everything!
Mr. Andrus: I love that answer. Who do you think are your biggest supporters and why?
JOY: My family, Mom, and my dad, Natalia, Davy, and Izzie.
LUKAS: Joy. Kinda duh. Sorry.
Mr. Andrus: Is there more you would like to say Lukas? Do you think a boy and a girl are able to be friends, when some kids can't?
JOY (too quickly): Of course.
LUKAS (thinking for a minute): I guess, sometimes it can be hard.
But, also, really not so hard at all.
JOY & LUKAS (speaking at the same time): Totally worth it.
Mr. Andrus: I totally agree and always tell my own student that exact same thing. Thanks so much Joy and Lukas.
*Here are links to the One Hundred Forty-One interviews...
SEASON #ONE (2016-2017)
SEASON #TWO (Summer 2017)
SEASON #FOUR (Summer 2018)
SEASON #FIVE (2018/2019)
SEASON #SIX (Summer 2019)
SEASON #SEVEN (Fall 2019)
SEASON #EIGHT (Winter/Spring 2020)
Interview #122 with Tamara Bundy (Author of Pixie Pushes On)
Interview #123 with Lindsay Lackey (Author of All the Impossible Things)
Interview #124 with Tae Keller (Author of When You Trap a Tiger)
Interview #125 with Jamie Sumner (Author of Roll With It)
Interview #126 with Hena Khan (Author of More to the Story)
Interview #127 with Phil Bildner (Author of A High-Five for Glenn Burke)
Interview #128 with Leslie Connor (Author of A Home for Goddesses and Dogs)
Interview#129 with Gillian McDunn (Author of Queen Bee and Me)
Interview #130 with Jody J. Little (Author of Worse Than Weird)
Interview #131 with Jenn Bishop (Author of Things You Can't Say)
Interview #132 with Kaela Noel (Author of Coo)
Interview #133 with Rebecca Stead (Author of The List of Things That Will Not Change)
Interview #134 with Gae Polisner (Author of Jack Kerouac is Dead to Me)
Interview #135 with Emily Blejwas (Author of Like Nothing Amazing Ever Happened)
Interview #136 with Joy McCullough (Author of A Field Guide to Getting Lost)
Interview #137 with Kim Baker (Author of the Water Bears)
Interview #138 with Erin Entrada Kelly (Author of We Dream of Space)
Interview #139 with Jess Redman (Author of Quintessence)
Interview #140 with Melanie Conklin (Author of Every Missing Piece)
Interview #141 with Lindsey Stoddard (Author of Brave Like that)
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