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One Last Chance to Live: Celebrating Hispanic/Latiné Heritage Month With Francisco X. Stork
In honor of Hispanic/Latiné Heritage Month, we’ve invited Francisco X. Stork to talk about his latest young adult novel, One Last Chance to Live. Francisco, who immigrated to the United States from Mexico at the age of nine with his mother and adoptive father, is the author of several award-winning novels, including Marcelo in the Real World, Disappeared, and The Memory of Light. Francisco calls One Last Chance to Live “the most personal of all my books.”
→ Resources
About Francisco X. Stork: Learn more about the author and his many novels for young readers.
Celebrating Hispanic and Latiné Heritage Month: Check out these titles for the young readers in your life.
→ Highlights
Francisco X. Stork, author, One Last Chance to Live
“Once you start writing, the characters take over, and it’s their story that becomes important.”
“When I was a little boy in Mexico, I used to tell people . . . ‘I want to be a writer.’”
“This is a month in which we see the contributions of immigrants, who decided to live in this country and who love this country, like me.”
→ Special Thanks
Producer: Maxine Osa
Sound engineer: S. Shin
Music composer: Lucas Elliot Eberl
→ Coming Soon
Alice Hoffman: When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary
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In honor of Hispanic/Latiné Heritage Month, we’ve invited Francisco X. Stork to talk about his latest young adult novel, One Last Chance to Live. Francisco, who immigrated to the United States from Mexico at the age of nine with his mother and adoptive father, is the author of several award-winning novels, including Marcelo in the Real World, Disappeared, and The Memory of Light. Francisco calls One Last Chance to Live “the most personal of all my books.”
→ Resources
About Francisco X. Stork: Learn more about the author and his many novels for young readers.
Celebrating Hispanic and Latiné Heritage Month: Check out these titles for the young readers in your life.
→ Highlights
Francisco X. Stork, author, One Last Chance to Live
“Once you start writing, the characters take over, and it’s their story that becomes important.”
“When I was a little boy in Mexico, I used to tell people . . . ‘I want to be a writer.’”
“This is a month in which we see the contributions of immigrants, who decided to live in this country and who love this country, like me.”
→ Special Thanks
Producer: Maxine Osa
Sound engineer: S. Shin
Music composer: Lucas Elliot Eberl
→ Coming Soon
Alice Hoffman: When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary
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