It is a tragi-comic coming-of-age story, woven with Jewish and Chinese superstition, Greek mythology and Anya's entries and letters in her Book of Moons. The book explores a little known passage in Jewish Holocaust history. Anya's War is the story of a fourteen year Jewish girl in exile in 1937 war-torn Shanghai, who finds an abandoned Chinese baby girl in the gutter and tries to save her. Her debut YA novel, Anya’s War, published in 2011 (Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan). The Happiness Tree was a nominee for the 2009-2010 Children's Book Award in Florida and was adapted by the Tanner Creative Program at The University of Utah as a play in Spring 2010. She is the bestselling author of three picture books: The Happiness Tree: Celebrating the Gifts of Trees We Treasure (Feiwel&Friends/Macmillan, 2008) Ten Little Wishes: A baby animal counting book (Harpercollins,2007) and January’s Child: The Birthday Month Book (Scholastic, 2007). cum laude in English/Creative Writing from San Francisco State University.Īndrea self-published her first poetry book at the age of six-a hand-lettered scroll tied with red ribbon. Andrea Gosline) was born in 1959 in Baltimore, MD but spent her childhood in San Francisco, where she still lives with her family in a garden cottage.
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