I guess when I imagine him, he looks like Caleb McLaughlin, the black kid from the show Stranger Things. So who is Lu and how did you go about creating him? The fact that he’s albino is simply how he looks, not who he is (and it’s cool that that’s only mentioned occasionally). If you had to draw a picture of Lu, how would he look? Facial features, hair, arms and legs, etc. We asked Draper and Reynolds to interview each other about their latest works and the similarities between their two characters.ĭraper: First question-an easy one. This month, Reynolds wraps up his bestselling and award-winning Track series with Lu, about an outwardly confident yet inwardly insecure young track athlete who was born albino. Jason Reynolds is the author of several books for young readers, including When I Was the Greatest, for which he earned the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent and the Coretta Scott King Honor books All American Boys (co-written with Brendan Kiely), and The Boy in the Black Suit. Draper’s new book, Blended, tells the story of 11-year-old Isabella, a biracial girl struggling to define her identity after her parents’ divorce. Edwards Award for lifetime literary achievement. In 2015, Draper received the American Library Association’s Margaret A. Draper is a five-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Literary Awards, whose books for young readers include Out of My Mind, Copper Sun, and Stella by Starlight.
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